CPE & Event Catalog
Fiduciary Accounting Part 3: Special Accounting Elections & Distributions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Analyze a traditional fiduciary accounting situation. Determine the use of the reserve for depreciation. Become acquainted with the special accounting rule for business assets. Review the accounting treatment of distributions from entities.
Tax Power Ethics for Tax Professionals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and interpretations. Statements on Standards for Tax Services. Tax preparer standards in the Internal Revenue Code. Rules for practice with and before the IRS, including IRS Circular 230. New developments. Best practices and case studies.
Fiduciary Accounting Part 4: The New Frontier?Total Return Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What are new frontier trusts. Situations where the use of the trustee's power to adjust or a unitrust can be beneficial. Understanding the requirements for using a particular strategy. Authority and requirements for the trustee's power to adjust with a problem example. Authority and requirements for unitrusts with a problem example.
Partnership Essentials: Tax Basis Capital Accounts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent legislative, rules and tax developments impacting partnerships and their partners. Transfer of partnership interests. TCJA Sect. 461(l) Excess Business Losses and Sect. 163(j) Business Interest Expense. Importance of capital accounts. Form 1065, Schedules K-1 and M-2. Schedules K-2 and K-3 update. Reporting partner capital accounts. Effect of the Ceiling Rule. Alternative and Remedial Methods. Effect on financial capital accounts. Tax basis capital accounts.
SAS No. 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
The importance of professional skepticism. The dangers of making assumptions. How to listen and understanding the answer to a question. Why it is important to leave all of your expectations at home. Anticipation and why it's so dangerous. Determining materiality. The fraud triangle. Thinking about, given a set of circumstances, how you would steal. Management and the tone at the top.
Taxation of Business Entities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
Types of business entities. Considerations in choosing a business entity. Tax consequences for the owners and the business. Future tax considerations that will impact various business entities.
ChatGPT Vision: How Accountants can Chat with Imagery WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to GPT Vision - Understanding the fundamentals of GPT Vision and its capabilities. Advantages of Vision Mode Research - Exploring the unique benefits of visual data analysis over traditional methods. Accessing GPT Vision - Guidance on how to access and utilize GPT Vision capabilities. Financial Screenshot Analysis - Techniques for analyzing financial documents and reports through screenshots. Operational Insights from Visual Data - Using images to gain insights into operational processes and asset management. Integration with Google Maps - Learning how to combine ChatGPT's vision capabilities with mapping technologies for enhanced spatial analysis. DDPP Analysis - Applying descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analysis to visual data. Sentiment and Facial Expression Analysis - Techniques for interpreting emotions and sentiments in images to gauge client and employee feedback. Body Language Interpretation - Analyzing body language in images to understand non-verbal cues in business contexts. Effective Photo Capturing Techniques - Best practices for taking photos that provide optimal insights for financial analysis.
Benford's Law and Other Digital Analysis Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Benford's Law. Digital analysis. Data analytics.
Critical Thinking Skills: Prevent Mistakes Now WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Critical thinking. Communication.
Fraud - How to Find, How to Prevent WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Fraud and its impact on our clients. Fraud prevention. Internal controls. Fraud risks. Fraud prevention tips.
Addressing Common Documentation Deficiencies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AU-C 230. Auditing.
Advanced Cost Accounting: Eliminate Calculation Distortions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Cost accounting.
Common Sense CFO: Crisis Management, Innovation, and Other Expectations Put on CFOs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Championing the role of innovation in the workplace Crisis management What does it mean? What is our role? The roles we take on and differences between the roles we are assigned? Current and future trends and expectations for financial leaders and CFOs Top ten crucial skills for 2035 from the Far Side's wisdom
K2's Accountant's Guide To QuickBooks Online WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Understanding your QBO subscription and licensing options. Recording routine and non-routine transactions in QBO. Importing and exporting data to/from QBO. Creating effective reports. Describing the process for integrating third-party applications with QBO. Troubleshooting issues with QBO reports and data.
HR's Role in Business Evolution: Strategy, Finance, and Growth WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Corporate culture. Strategic planning. Leadership. Staff development. Use of Generative AI.
Performance Auditing Made Easy WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
Performance audit standards. Performance audit types. Performance audit objectives.
Is Activity-Based Costing the Right Tool for Your Organization? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
ABC versus traditional costing. First-stage allocation. Determining predetermined overhead rates. Second-stage allocation. Activity-based reporting. Activity-based management.
Data Analytics: Practical Insights for Today's Accountant WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Apply new effective tools in business processes. Better understand how to use data analytics in public accounting engagements. Identify popular software packages that may be useful for accomplishing data analytics.
How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concepts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Properly assessing inherent, control, and fraud risk on an engagement, and linking the results to an appropriately tailored detailed audit plan based on risk assessment and client service goals, regardless of entity type (for-profit, nonprofit, governmental). Leveraging strong substantive analytic procedures as audit evidence to cut back on tests of details. The most common efficiency opportunities for tailoring your audit approach based on risk. How to use the workpaper review process as a tool for producing a more effective and efficient engagement. Using audit documentation to enhance audit quality, while ensuring every workpaper has a purpose. How to use the client to your advantage in planning and performing the audit. Learn how to get the engagement out the door on time and on budget.