Those who register for this on-line event will be able to apply the registration fee to any paid admission to a CFO conference within a year after the webcast.

Companies of all sizes that have exposure to environmental risk should tune in to this editorial webcast to learn about the controversies surrounding accounting for contingencies, and to discuss a new methodology that helps companies and investors assess the reliability of environmental disclosures.

Tim Reason, editorial director of CFO.com, will interview attorney and financial analyst Greg Rogers, president of Advanced Environmental Dimensions, about the conclusions that can be drawn for companies of all sizes and from all industries through a benchmark analysis of 25 companies in the petroleum and chemical industries. They will discuss such issues as environmental reserve practices, cost-effectiveness of environmental expenditures, impact on market capitalization, proximity of reported liabilities to fair value, and solvency risk.

Mr. Rogers will also address what finance executives can do to respond to investor demands for increased transparency while conforming to existing financial accounting standards and mitigating financial reporting and compliance risk.

We recommend that you register for this webcast if you're among CFOs and senior finance executives from companies that:

• Have exposure to environmental risk (even if immaterial under current accounting); and/or
  
  
• May make an acquisition or be acquired.

About the Speaker

C. Gregory Rogers, J.D., CPA, is President and founder of Advanced Environmental Dimensions, LLC, a management consulting firm specializing in environmental financial reporting and related business strategies. Mr. Rogers is recognized in Best Lawyers in America in the field of environmental law and is a nationally-recognized expert on environmental accounting and disclosure.

He is Chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on Environmental Disclosure and one of 30 national experts who participated in the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation and report to Congress on Environmental Disclosures (July 2004). Mr. Rogers is author of Financial Reporting of Environmental Liabilities and Risks after Sarbanes-Oxley (Wiley, 2005), a Harvard Business School case study, and numerous articles.

Mr. Rogers earned his law degree from the Southern Methodist University School of Law, where he was a Hatton W. Sumners Scholar and law review editor. He received his B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma.