CPE & Event Catalog
Strategies for Guiding Clients Through Challenging Situations: Tax Insights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Tax considerations in divorce, including support obligations and property division. Bankruptcy, debt cancelation, and financial hardship tax implications. Tax treatment of cohabitation, premarital agreements, and exemptions. Child support, alimony, and dependency issues. Business dissolution and tax consequences. Filing status options and tax rate comparisons. Head of household qualifications and tax advantages. Impact of refunds, deficiencies, and marital property rules.
Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace to Prevent Violence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Mental health awareness.
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.
Introduction to Forensic Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Forensic Accounting. Accounting. Auditing. Finance.
Fringe Benefits & Compensation Planning - Today and Beyond WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Fringe benefit planning fundamentals. Strategies tailored for business owners and employees. Navigating IRC Sect. 132 fringe benefit option. Cafeteria plans demystified. Tax management in compensation planning. Understanding the implications of dependent care and educational assistance plans. Implementing flexible spending account plans effectively. Design features and regulations of group term life insurance plans. Medical savings accounts regulations. Financing options for retiree medical benefits. Health care benefits: insured plan vs. HMO comparison. ERISA reporting and disclosure requirements. IRC common control rules. Overview of age and sex discrimination rules.
Interviewing, Onboarding and Training 101 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Best practices on interviewing. Best practices for onboarding. Best practices with training.
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.
Introduction to Governmental Budgeting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Governmental budgeting.
Retirement Penalties and Rollover Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What the IRS knows: Forms 1099R and 5498. Exceptions to the ten percent penalty. Secure 2.0 changes to the late payment penalty. History of the 60-day Rule and Recent Developments. Rulings and self-certification. Form 5329 use and strategies.
Getting On Top of It All: How to Work Smarter, Not Harder - Part 2 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
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.
Coping With the Growth of Online Fraud WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The actuation of online and other cyber frauds. Fraudulent acts that are initiated electronically. Automated and employee driven methods that can reduce cyber-fraud risk.
Real Estate Tax Issues: Passive Activity, Self-Rental and Section 199A WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
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. Definition of self-rental property - both for Sections 199A and 469. Reporting using Form 1040, Schedule E, page 1 and 2. Self-rental property and the Form 8582 (passive activity).
Shortcuts to Personal and Professional Success WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
What really leads to success in the modern world. Mastering the art of communication. The magic of motivation. Overcoming your fears. What makes people really happy and what doesn't.
Accounting for the Gig Economy WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Characteristics unique to the gig economy. Independent contractor and employee classification considerations. Recordkeeping considerations for independent contractors. Accounting and reporting issues for gig economy participants. Audit and attestation for clients who participate in the gig economy. Tax and regulatory considerations. The CPA as a trusted advisor for independent contractors.
Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
FASB Statements and Interpretations. Statements on Auditing Standards and Statements on Quality Management Standards.
Audits Under Uniform Guidance - Single Audit & NPOs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
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.
Surgent's Individual Income Tax Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation, Real Estate professional requirements, Review of pertinent cases and rulings affecting taxpayers, Sale of Passthrough Entity Interests and Net Investment Income Tax - analyze the tax implications of selling interests in passthrough entities, including relevant examples, and how the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT)applies to these transactions, Practice aids, including all the numbers applicable for the current year -- inflation-adjusted amounts, mileage rates,retirement, contributions, and more, Advanced practice, reporting, and other issues intertwined with advanced planning and discussion ideas.
Planning in an Uncertain World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Why great predictions are not intuitive but the result of critical thinking, gathering information and updating predictions when needed. How to separate correlation from causation. How to recognize and overcome bias. Who is Thomas Bayes and why he matters.
Fraud Case Studies: Professional Misbehavior in the 21st Century WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Understand factors that allowed selected frauds to occur. Recognize controls that may have prevented or mitigated selected frauds. Consider application of these lessons to circumstances you encounter in your professional endeavors. Apply ethical guidance to scenarios that accounting professionals may encounter in public practice.
Applying the New Expected Credit Loss Model WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Principles behind the new expectation credit loss model. Acceptable methods for evaluating expected credit loss for certain financial instruments. Enhanced disclosure requirements common for nonpublic entities.