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Compliance supplements. Yellow book. Accounting.

Designing and performing sufficient audit procedures required for all audits, particularly when auditing privately-owned companies. Identify controls that exist, especially when those controls are not clearly identified or formalized. Evaluate if those controls prevent or detect material misstatements in the financial statements. Design effective audit procedures (including testing of controls where appropriate) in response to the auditor s assessed risk of the potential material misstatements in the financial statements.

Concepts of the Single Audit under the Uniform Guidance. Performing the compliance audit of federal awards, including testing auditee compliance and internal control over compliance. Auditor reporting responsibilities including the compliance audit reports, the report on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, and schedule of findings and questioned costs. Requirements for the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, known as the SEFA. Update on the OMB Compliance Supplement.

How fraud is detected. The role of external auditors in finding fraud. Revenue recognition issues. Corrupt management. Data mining. Physical and biometric controls

Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the owner s individual income tax return (i.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations). Determine how to calculate an owner's initial tax basis of his pass-through entity. Learn how to correctly make annual adjustments to a pass-through owner's tax basis. Identify what constitutes a debt basis for an S corporation shareholder. Learn the tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders.

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. nonticketed 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 California Superior Court.

S corporation taxation fundamentals. Income and deductions for S corporations. Shareholder basis calculation. Reporting requirements for Form 1120S. Advanced tax planning strategies.

Recent tax legislation and developments related to depreciation and capitalization. Eligible property for Section 179 and Section 168(k). Section 179 deduction and its use to depreciate real property. Section 168(k) deduction and its use to depreciate real property. Disposition of segments of real property. Exchanges of tangible personal property after repeal of the like-kind exchange rules.

Review of sample returns with illustrations of most forms of gifts. How to meet the adequate disclosure requirements. Community property gifts vs. gift splitting, use of DSUEA from a pre-deceased spouse. Electing in or out of GST allocations with indirect skips.

Fundamentals of machine learning and AI algorithms. How generative AI models like ChatGPT function. Practical examples of generative AI in accounting, finance and tax. Key terminologies and concepts simplified. AI Agents for process automation.

Talent strategy. Culture. Employee engagement. Employee retention. Leadership. Leadership strategy.

Synchronizing your files to your desktop. Working with shared files. Managing different versions of files. Understanding how OneDrive works with OneNote, Teams, and SharePoint.

Why important things don't get done on a timely basis, and what to do about it. Five ways to increase productivity that almost no one ever uses. The four proven ways to keep yourself and your staff motivated to consistently work at the highest level. How to avoid feeling stressed out, even though your to do list is endless. The three time management techniques that you're not using that are critical to your success. How to know and avoid what is a poor use or waste of your time. How to set goals that excite you, and how to guarantee they actually get done. Three ways to elicit help from others that ensure their cooperation and help. The smart things to do with the extra time you'll have when you're on top of it all.

Calculation of basis when the entity is formed, including the impact of contributed property. How to calculate partnership tax basis capital accounts. Clarifies the how partnerships and S corporations debt impacts tax basis. Discusses how distributions affect basis. Explains how basis is impacted by sale and/or liquidation of the partnership or S-corporation interest. Discusses how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting. Comprehensive examples to illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process.

SAS 136 audit requirements for ERISA Section 103(a)(3)(C) audits. Update of the changes affecting 401k plans. Compliance issues commonly encountered in 401k plan audits. Best practices for engagement planning, internal controls, risk assessment, and detailed testing. Common audit reporting and disclosure issues.

FASB ASC 842, Leases. All recently released updates to ASC 842, Leases.

Auditing and reporting requirements to meet when the client selects the ERISA Section 103(a)(3)(C) limited scope audit option. AICPA AU-C 703. Forming an opinion and reporting on financial statements of employee benefit plans subject to ERISA.

The SECURE 2.0 Act. Types of documents: advantages and disadvantages, where they fit and plan termination issues. Types of retirement plans. Plan selection and design. Contribution and deduction limits and timing. Reporting and disclosure: Form 5500 and participant communications. Legislative environment. In-plan Roth conversions.

Adding user-defined calculations to PivotTables. Enhancing PivotTables with Key Performance Indicators. Using PivotTables to consolidate standard Excel reports. Creative ways to filter PivotTables. Linking accounting software data into PivotTables.

Understanding the Portable Document Format. Identifying tools you can use to work with PDFs. Collaborating using PDFs. Creating, distributing, and collecting fillable PDF forms. Using PDFs to enhance security.