CPE & Event Catalog
A Practitioner's Guide to IRAs and Qualified Retirement Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Traditional and Roth IRAs: Understanding retirement savings options. SEP and SIMPLE IRAs: Exploring retirement plans for small businesses. Qualified Plans: Navigating employer-sponsored retirement plans. Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans: Comparing retirement plan structures. 401(k) Plans: Maximizing benefits with employer-sponsored options. Retirement Plan Selection: Choosing the best plan for individual client needs. Minimum Distribution Rules: Ensuring compliance and understanding withdrawal regulations. Tax Implications: Analyzing the tax consequences of retirement plan decisions. Retirement Planning Strategies: Implementing effective strategies for client financial goals.
Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Leadership foundations. Leading downward. Leading upward. Practical leadership tools.
Criminal Tax: How CPAs Bring Value to Defense Attorneys WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The common weaknesses in a criminal tax investigation. The key documents to review (In a sea of thousands of documents). Crafting questions to recommend in court proceeding.
Achieve Competency in Three Basic Tool Categories - Master the Fundamentals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Tools for FSA. The 3 Ps. The QST trifecta. The integrated planning model. Performance based management. The value chain. The balanced scorecard.
Form 706 Preparation Part 3: Reporting Deductions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How to report funeral and administrative expenses on Schedule J and L. How to report debts, mortgages and liens on Schedule K. Marital deduction and elections, QTIP, Reverse QTIP, QDOT, over-stated marital deductions. Charitable deduction Schedule O and potential problems.
Managerial Accounting: Your Prescription for Better Decision Making WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Target profit and Break-even analysis. Relevant costs and decision-making. Standard costs and variances. Activity-based costing. Segment reporting and analysis. Budgeting.
Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of the passive activity rules under IRC Section 469 (and related regulations), how the 3.8% net investment income tax under Section 1411 and qualified business income (QBI) deduction under Section 199A applies to rentals and passive activities, and what is a trade or business rental is under Section 162. How the PAL rules apply to rental real estate activities and investments in S corporations and partnerships. Definition of activity and the activity grouping and disclosure rules. Real estate professional exception to the PAL rules for investments in non-passive rentals. Special $25,000 loss allowance for rental real estate with active participation. Material participation safe harbor rules. Events that trigger suspended PALs. Limitations on tax credits generated by passive activities. Special rules that re-characterize passive income to non-passive income. What rentals are subject to self-employment tax under Section 1402.
Social Security Basics and Strategies for Maximizing Benefits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Social Security planning, benefit calculation, and beneficiaries. Recent changes to "file and suspend" and "restricted application" strategies. Increasing benefits for self-employed individuals. Planning for surviving spouses. Integrating retirement plan distribution strategies with Social Security claiming strategies. Coordinating drawing Social Security benefits with the start of Medicare benefits, including a discussion of IRMAA.
Auditing Standards: A Comprehensive Review WEBCAST
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Your Desk
16.0 Credits
Efficient audit planning, documentation and research. Risk assessment procedures relate control risk to substantive testing and reduce the risk of lawsuits. Fraud requirements. Testing management's estimates. Auditing standards.
Form 706 Preparation Part 4: GST Schedule R, Form 8971, Payments & Credits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Generation-skipping transfer tax, Schedule R, including election statements and integration with the marital deduction. Foreign death tax credit, Schedule P and prior transfer credit, Schedule Q. Qualified conservation easements, Schedule U. Making Sec. 6166 election and using Graegin loans.
Are You Up For the Challenge? Test Your Skills as a Quality Control Reviewer WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
AICPA professional standards. EQCR expectations. Firm-specific considerations. Best practices for reducing the frequency of review points. Best practices for mitigating the severity of review points. Examples of common EQCR deficiencies. The impending influence of SQMS No. 1, SQMS No. 2, SAS 146, and SSARS 26. An interactive, hands-on EQCR simulation.
Expand Your Analytical Toolbox More Tools for Success WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Five step valuation process. Two specific valuation approaches. The Gordon Model. Ten thoughts on banker selection. Rating your bank. Ten hints for keeping your toolbox full.
Member Exclusive: Building Strengths Based Culture WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Actionable strategies for fostering engagement, productivity, and leadership growth.
Introduction to Governmental Budgeting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Governmental budgeting.
2025 Not-for-Profit Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Yellow book. Auditing. Accounting.
Maximizing Your Social Security Benefits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Retirement benefits: What the amount of benefits is in various circumstances. Spousal benefits: Should a spouse return to work? What benefits does a spouse have and when and how do they relate to benefits decisions by the client? Claiming Social Security: Advantages and disadvantages at ages 62, full retirement age, and 70. Planning: What clients approaching retirement age should consider now with respect to benefits for them, their spouses, and their children. Coordinating benefits: Should you take Social Security first and higher-balance IRA distributions later, or take IRA balances first and enhanced Social Security benefits later?
Comprehensive Passive Activity Losses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Overview of the four loss limitation rules and how the PAL rules interact with the other limitations. Definition of a PAL including a detailed review of the 7 determining factors contained in the Treasury Regulations with a review of several recent court decisions that interpret this regulation. Impact of PAL rules on real estate ownership. Learn the six nonshelterable Passive Activity (NOPA) rules that act as anti-abuse rules to the PAL rules. Discuss how the PAL rules impact tax credits. Discuss tax elections and planning techniques associated with PALs.
A Fox in the Henhouse/Courthouse WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Internal controls. Fraud prevention. Fraud investigation.
Single Audit and Uniform Guidance Issues Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The nuts and bolts of a Single Audit. Overview of the GAO's Fraud Risk Management Framework and the importance of fraud risk in a Single Audit. Specific audit issues arising relating to the continued Pandemic and Infrastructure funding programs. Review of unique elements of the 2025 Compliance Supplement (if available). Recent changes to specific Uniform Guidance rules and regulations.
15 Missteps for Startup/New Business Organization Techniques WEBCAST
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4.0 Credits
The challenges of entrepreneurship and the 15 of the most common and costly mistakes new business owners make.