CPE & Event Catalog
Understanding and Creating an Internal Control System WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Underlying concepts of internal control. Defining where and why controls, policies and procedures are needed. Legacy control measures that are still important for businesses today. Creating control measures that address the use and protection of technology.
Navigating Tax Court for Non-Lawyers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Determining when filing a Tax Court case can be a strategic benefit. Learn how to file the case. Understand the steps and deadlines in the Tax Court process. Review the settlement process. Know when the case gets to the point where you need help.
All About Fraud - Examples, Prevention and Auditing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Auditing. Fraud.
Member Exclusive: Year End Update
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The latest advocacy efforts, regulatory updates, and what's ahead for CPAs in Washington.
Building Personal Leadership Skills WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Leadership. Personality Types. Communication. Uses of AI in the work place.
2025 Annual Update for Not-for-Profit Accountants & Auditors WEBINAR
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC). Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs). Year 2 considerations of the leases standard. Common nonprofit deficiencies identified in peer review. What's going on at the AICPA.
Budget Mastery: Process, Problems, and Solutions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Defining the budget process. Common budgetary cultures and discussion of solutions. Does your budget need an overhaul or just a tune up? How to make the budget flexible. Making a better budget and maybe even a better you (or at least improving the perception of the budget work itself).
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.
IRAs: Traditional, Roth, SEP & SIMPLE WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
An emphasis on newly enacted tax legislation affecting IRAs, including the NEW final required minimum distribution (RMD) regulations. Contribution limits to and tax treatment of distributions from Traditional, Roth, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs. Deductible phase-out limits for Traditional IRA contributions for taxpayers who are active participants in qualified retirement plans. Roth IRA contribution phase-out limits, as well as tax-free qualified distributions. Planning opportunities for conversions to ROTH IRAs Rollover rules to/from different retirement accounts and the one-rollover-per-year limitation. The different options of receiving IRA distributions before age 59 « and avoiding the 10% early distribution penalty (including substantially equal periodic payments). The required minimum distribution (RMD) rules from IRAs needed to avoid the 50% penalty after the account owner turns age 72 or dies. The tax ramifications of spouse and non-spouse beneficiaries and how this affects the RMD calculation after the account owner s death. Overview of health savings account (HSA) eligibility rules, contribution limits and distribution rules.
How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Team dynamics. Influence. Organizational behavior. Leadership.
Digging Deep with Excel Pivot Tables WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Data preparation and cleansing. Pivot table creation. Pivot table customization. Navigating Excel's PivotTable Analyze tab.
K2's Accessing Your Company's Data With Power Query And Power BI WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Utilizing Power Query to access data from the web, spreadsheets, folders, and databases. Using Power Query to perform various transformations to clean up data before importing it to Power BI or Excel. Producing various reporting documents from data delivered from Power Query.
Steps to Stop External Fraud WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Types of external fraud. Considerations as organizations work to reduce fraud risk. External fraud and known parties. External fraud unknown perpetrators.
Ethical AI Practices for CPAs: Ensuring Responsible Use WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding ethical implications of AI. Data privacy and security considerations. Compliance with regulations and professional standards. Developing ethical AI policies and procedures.
SEC Case Studies: Ethical Dilemmas in Finance and Accounting WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to ethics and ethical dilemmas. Ethical codes and professional standards. Fraud and the fraud triangle. Ethical decision-making models. Financial statement manipulation tactics. Cash flow and key metrics misrepresentations.
Build Better Budgets: Fundamental Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Advantages of budgeting. The role of budgeting. Master budgeting. Flexible budgeting. Standards and variances. Capital budgeting.
Peeking Behind the Curtain: Exploring IRS Audit Technique Guides WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of ATGs. Best practices for utilizing ATGs. Salient provisions of selected ATGs. Insights auditors may obtain from analytical procedures. Nuances associated with selected industries.
Money Laundering Awareness for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Money laundering overview. Role of tax examiners and auditors. Tax return examination. Pre-audit indicators. Audit flags. Real estate issues. Cash indicators. International trade signals. Loan considerations. Professional service provider concerns. Money laundering and ethics.
Partnership Checkup: Tax Issues & Forms Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Clarify the importance of partnership capital accounts and partnerships debt on partner's tax basis. Impact of contributed property. Explain the importance of shareholder loans to the entity. Discuss how basis is impacted by distributions of corporation property and the sale/or liquidation of the S corporation interest. Comprehensive examples illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process. Discusses how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting. How to get from the Schedule K-1 information to the basis calculations.