CPE & Event Catalog
Recognizing Lies: How to Detect and Prevent WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Deciphering the signals that indicate dishonesty. How short-term thinking leads to lies and leads to uncovering lies. Differentiating concerns and guilt.
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.
Public Speaking Secrets That Wow Audiences WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Overcoming the common obstacles to public speaking. Creating the content of the talk. How to deliver a talk effectively. Making the talk entertaining. Memorization and practice. Creating stories that rock.
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.
Fraud Assessment for Small and Medium Sized Businesses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The fraud triangle. The fraud savvy model. Symptoms of fraud. Benford's Law. The net worth method. The vulnerability chart. 10 steps for action today.
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.
FASB Update and Review WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
FASB updates that will affect near-term reporting. Future topics that may soon be addressed by the FASB.
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.
Controls to Secure the Growing Digital Footprint WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Securing individual documents. Protecting information resident in the Cloud. Securing data stored on or accessed by mobile devices.
Business Partnerships: Managing Supplier Relationships WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Overview of supplier contracts. Case studies of successful and not-so-successful supplier relationships. Risk potentials.
AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services: Ethical Considerations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Review of the new AICPA Statement on Standards for Tax Services. Reorganization of SSTS by type of work performed. Discuss new standards on data protection, reliance on tools and representation of tax clients before taxing authorities.
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.
How to Build a Custom AI Chatbot and GPT in Plain English WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fundamentals of GPT Builder and AI agent customization techniques. Integration of specialized knowledge bases and domain specific expertise. Security and privacy considerations in AI chatbot deployment. Custom GPT development without coding expertise. Implementation of AI agents for customer support and workflow automation. Multiple bot interactions and content creation strategies. Best practices for maintaining and scaling AI assistants.
Living in the World of AI – How AI Has Changed Ethics? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Is it ethical to use AI, or not? What is ethical AI? Why does it matter for finance and business professionals? Understanding and managing AI hallucinations, bias and misinformation. Internal friction: navigating fear, resistance, and cultural challenges. Creating sustainable, people-focused AI practices that build trust.
Practical Excel Topics for Today’s Accountant WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Data validation. Underutilized, but powerful, formulas. Formulas for manipulating, transforming, and cleansing data. Formulas for data analysis. Reference formulas such as VLOOKUP. Pivot tables. Solver as a tool for performing multivariate analysis. Mail merge. Custom formatting.
A Practical Guide to Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Trustee responsibilities and trust administration. Strategies for probate avoidance and efficient asset distribution. Tax treatment of revocable living trusts. Marital deductions and bypass trusts. Uses of irrevocable trusts in estate planning. Benefits of irrevocable life insurance trusts. Multi-generational wealth planning with dynasty trusts. Overview of estate planning tools.
Profiles in Fraud WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Real life fraudsters. The characteristics fraud perpetrators have in common. Techniques to prevent and deter these common schemes.
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.
Al Capone to Cybercrime: The Journey of IRS Special Agents WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Introduction to IRS criminal investigation (CI). Historical evolution. Investigative techniques and tools. Importance of IRS CI. Training of CI agents. Process of investigations.
An In-Depth Understanding of the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of the GST tax and its policy purpose. Direct skips, taxable terminations, and taxable distributions. Skip persons and treatment of trusts as skip persons. Application of the GST exemption and inclusion ratio. Timely, late, and retroactive GST allocations. Formula-based exemption allocations. Planning strategies for GST tax minimization. Filing considerations for Forms 706 and 709.