CPE Catalog & Events
The Corporate Transparency Act with Brock Klinger WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Corporate Transparency Act requirements. Why maintaining beneficial ownership information should be a priority. What it takes to file your BOI report. How to manage and simplify reporting processes.
Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Tactical budget issues. Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions.
Accounting & Auditing for ESG WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Auditing. Environmental, social and governance.
SAS 145 - Risk Assessment WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
SAS 145. Auditing.
Fixing Your Chart of Accounts WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Current chart of accounts best practices. Why developing a chart of accounts begins with studying your organizational chart. How to identify your account segments. Determining the order of your account segments. Best practices for numbering account bases. How to avoid memorization. Fixing your current chart of accounts. How big company and small company software differs. Two key approaches for preserving your historical data. What to know when making major chart of accounts changes.
K2's 2023 Simplifying And Economizing Your Tech Stack WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Identifying the tech tools you need and those you don't. Canceling unnecessary licenses and subscription services.
How SAS Nos. 134-145 Improve Risk-Based Audits WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Key changes to audit report elements intended to improve the understandability of the nature and results of financial statement audits. Enhanced required by-product communications with management and those charged with governance to promote more reliable financial statements. Clarifications related to obtaining sufficient and appropriate audit evidence, including significant unusual transactions, related parties, going concern uncertainty, and accounting estimates. New definitions and requirements related to identifying and evaluating risks of material misstatement. Other important matters contained in SAS Nos. 134-145.
Operations Level Internal Control WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An overview of controls that drive procedures. Considerations for procedural control development. Understanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change.
K2's 2023 Next Generation Excel Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Identifying weaknesses in traditional reporting processes. Using leading-edge features in Excel to improve reporting practices. How to work with Power Query to solve common reporting challenges. Adding Slicers and Timelines to your Excel-based reports.
Cybersecurity 101 for CPAs WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The typical IT architecture and technology components that reside in an IT environment. Specific cybersecurity controls that are applied at each layer within an IT environment. An overview of common cybersecurity frameworks used within the industry to establish and assess cybersecurity controls.
Navigating Difficult Conversations with Coworkers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Negotiation. Conflict. Persuasion. Management. Leadership.
K2's 2023 Paperless Office WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The importance of "going paperless". Key technologies that facilitate a paperless office. Advantages of going paperless. Examples of leading document management systems and processes.
Real Estate Professionals, Passive Activity and Section 199A WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definition of a real estate professional. Pros and cons of being a real estate professional. Integration of the real estate professional rules with reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E. Real estate professionals and indirectly owned (partnerships, S corporations) entity's reporting on Form 1040. How "real estate business" is interpreted under the Section 199A rules and how it integrates with the passive activity rules. Real estate professionals and the Form 8582 (Passive Activities). How to make the "grouping" election for passive activities and the flow-through deduction. Several real-life situations illustrating the various possibilities and the consequences of failing to comply with the real estate professional standards. Real estate professionals and the "former passive activities" rules.
K2's 2023 Kicking It Up A Notch With KPIs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
How to look for data in your existing systems. The basics of data prep tools. Tools for tracking and reporting on KPIs.
Case Studies in Accounting Fraud 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Major financial statement frauds including, among others, sales and other types of revenue, estimates, earnings management and cut-off. Major misappropriation of asset fraud schemes including skimming, larceny, and additional schemes that occur in inventory, payables and other accounts. Review of cases involving common fraud schemes. New cases will be discussed in 2023 including FTX.
Tax-Exempt Organization and Form 990 Basics 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Tax-exemption and the many types of tax-exempt organizations. Private foundation versus public charity. Form 990, Form 990-EZ, Form 990-N, Form 1023 and Form 1024. Intermediate sanctions, private inurement and private benefit. Public support. Unrelated business income tax, including Final Treasury Regulations. Special rules, for advertising, bingo and trade shows. Update on recent developments.
Strategies for Tax Dispute Resolution 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Examination process organization of IRS, standards for return selection; AICPA SSTS (revised), Circular 230 guidelines, amended returns and approaches to resolving examination problems. Civil penalties, delinquency penalties, accuracy-related penalty, fraud penalty, preparer penalty, promoter and protestor penalties and foreign information return penalty regime. Audits and administrative appeals, nature and scope; docketed v. nondocketed appeals, appeals conferences and settlement approaches. Collection process significance of assessment; nature of tax liens and levies, installment agreements, collection due process, offers in compromise and bankruptcy. Tax fraud civil tax fraud badges, criminal tax fraud violations, defenses, voluntary disclosures the role of Kovel accountant. Judicial proceedings Tax Court process, federal district court, Court of Federal Claims and Superior Court.
Professional Skepticism for the Public Accountant WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Self-evaluation of skepticism. Requirements set forth by the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Risk assessment. Analytical procedures. Advice for cultivating your professionally skeptical mindset.
Social Media: The Bare Necessities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Social media. Marketing. Publicity. Public relations. Business strategy.
K2's Implementing Internal Controls in QuickBooks Environments WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Critical risks in QuickBooks environments. Internal control options that can mitigate risk to prudently acceptable levels. Enabling alternative control measures to improve internal controls in QuickBooks environments.
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