CPE & Event Catalog
Preparing and Reviewing Workpapers for Higher Quality Audits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The primary purpose of workpaper documentation, and minimum documentation requirements for workpaper preparers. Best practices for documenting complex and subjective procedures and conclusions, such as estimates, substantive analytic procedures, etc. that impact the nature and extent of audit documentation needed to support audit conclusions. Discussing the financial statement audit risk concept, including how proper application better ensures a higher quality audit. Tips for an efficient workpaper review process that complies with relevant standards.
Partnership Essentials: Review & Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 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.
Basis Calculations & Distributions for Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of any new legislation affecting basis computations and distributions and changes to the schedule K-1s. Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect a S shareholder's stock and debt basis and a partner/member's outside basis and where the items get reported on Federal individual income tax return. The three loss and deduction limitations on the owner's individual income tax return. How cash or non-cash distributions affect the basis calculations and whether or not they are taxable to the owners. Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder's stock in a S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership. What constitutes debt basis for a S corporation shareholder under the final regulations. The tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders and on open account debt. How recourse and non-recourse debt effect a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk.
The Art of Accountability: Effective Strategies for Tough Conversations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Leadership. Conflict management. Accountability. Employee engagement.
Estate Planning Strategies Using Irrevocable Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
President Biden's campaign promises and historical positions on estate planning. The gift, estate, and income tax treatment of irrevocable trusts. The benefits of spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), grantor retained interest trusts (GRATs and GRUTs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs), life insurance trusts (ILITs), domestic asset protection trusts (DAPTs), dynasty trusts, and retirement trusts.
Comprehensive S Corporation Taxation Form 1120S WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Learn how to qualify and to make the S corporation election. Determine how to calculate initial and annual stock and debt basis amounts and the three reasons why they are maintained. Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the shareholder s individual income tax return (i.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations). Understand the proper tax treatment and reporting of a distribution from the S corporation to a shareholder. Determine how to calculate AAA and OAA account for an S corporation as well as the 3 potential taxes. Determine the impact of health insurance, the net investment income tax, qualified business income tax deduction and unreasonable compensation issues on the reporting function of the S corporation.
State Tax Nexus: Frequently Awkward Questions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Frequently asked questions about income tax and sales tax nexus. New developments. Key factors in reviewing potential nexus consequences. Nexus road trip to eight large states. Tax impacts of remote work. Free, multistate resources.
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.
Common Deficiencies in Employee Benefit Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
EBP. Auditing.
Develop Your Emotional Intelligence to Be More Successful in Life and Leadership WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Emotional intelligence in leadership. Building stronger workplace relationships. Creating and leading high-performing teams. Navigating change with emotional intelligence.
Effective Communication Skills WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Confidence. Leadership.
Aligning Analytics to COSO's Fraud Risk Management Principles WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
COSO Fraud Risk Management Guide. Aligning data analytics considerations to an effective fraud risk management program. How to implement and sustain an effective forensic data analytics program as part of an effective fraud risk management and compliance program.
Revenue Recognition - Allocate the Transaction Price WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Revenue recognition on contracts with customers.
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.
Case Studies in Accounting Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Major financial statement frauds, including sales and other types of revenue, estimates, earnings management and cut-off. Major misappropriation of asset fraud schemes, including skimming, larceny, and additional schemes that occur in inventory, payables and other accounts. Review of cases involving common fraud schemes.
Productivity Hacks for Working Remote WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Virtual work. Remote work. Telecommuting. Flexible work options.
Emerging Innovations in Forensic Data Analytics, Crypto Currencies and AI, ChatGPT WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AI and ChatGPT. Machine learning and predictive transaction tagging. Profiles of an improper or corrupt vendor payment. Data Sharing Consortium and Split Learning Techniques. Cryptocurrency trends and applications from an accountant's perspective.
What's Going on at the FASB (2025) WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Accounting Standard Updates effective in 2024 for public entities, private entities, and nonprofits. Review year 2 implications of the leases standard including modification accounting. A look at the projects identified by the FASB's Invitation to Comment: Agenda Consultation.
Roadmap to Ethical Decision Making WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Provide best practice tips and practical strategies for preserving independence when assisting clients with technical matters. Discuss the principles of professional conduct. Address compliance with professional standards. Use case studies to address circumstances that may create threats to independence.
Everything You Need to Know About the Pass-Through Entity Rules: IRC Section 199A The Code and Regulations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Understanding the term QBI. Understanding the terms SSTB. Understanding the term QTB. Calculate the 199A deduction Understanding the phaseouts. Understanding aggregation. Rental property as a trade or business. Identify how your clients can maximize the deduction. Planning ideas. Understand the Section 199A Regulations.