CPE & Event Catalog
Tactical Budgeting – Moving Beyond Traditional Budgets to Manage Performance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The real purpose of budgeting in modern organizations. Common budgeting problems and process breakdowns. Linking budgets to income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows. Output metrics and what really causes work. Top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid budgeting approaches. Flexible budgeting using volume-based and unit metrics. Benchmarking to reduce politics and improve insight. Using budgets to build value, not just limit spending.
Can You Really Do That With AI? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
AI fundamentals. AI tools you already own. Analyzing data using AI. AI risks and concerns.
Agentic AI for CPAs: Automate Workflows with Intelligence WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to Agentic AI concepts and terminology. Case studies for using AI agents in accounting, finance, and tax services. Step by step demonstration of creating and deploying an AI agent. Introduction to Microsoft Copilot Studio agent builder. Developing your AI agent deployment strategy.
Sarbanes-Oxley Update - Accounting Risk Assessment considerations - 20 years later WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Sarbanes-Oxley. Accounting risk assessment.
Executive Presence, Personal Brand: Structure Your Narrative WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Components of executive presence. Audience centered elevator pitch structure. Professional value proposition framework. Structuring a concise executive biography. Aligning personal narrative with organizational value. Common pitfalls in professional self-presentation. Application and refinement exercise.
2026-27 Yellow Book Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Significant changes related to quality management and updates affecting key audit roles, with an emphasis on how these revisions impact audit planning and execution. The GAO's implementation delay and its implications for 2026 audit planning. Recent leadership changes at the U.S. Government Accountability Office and what those transitions may signal for future guidance and oversight priorities. Overview of recent updates to the Green Book, helping auditors understand changes to internal control guidance that may affect governmental entities and Single Audit engagements.
Resolve Ethical Conflicts: Do the Right Thing and Keep Your Job WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Resolving conflict.
Fiduciary Accounting and Tax Planning for Estates and Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Fundamentals of fiduciary accounting. Uniform Principal and Income Act. Discretionary Power to Adjust. Allocations between principal and income. Trust accounting. 3.8% Net Investment Income. Form 1041 - Schedule I. Section 645 Election. Simple or complex trusts.
IRAs – Contributions and Distributions for Traditional, Roth, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs 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 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 that 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 ½ and avoiding the 10% early distribution penalty. The required minimum distribution 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 eligibility rules, contribution limits and distribution rules
CFO Solutions to IRS Problems WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The authority of IRS in assessing and collecting taxes. The common misconceptions when dealing with IRS. Common questionable actions by business owners. How to prepare for an IRS audit. The seven options in IRS collections. Possible criminal tax violations by CFOs and small business owners.
Accounting for the Gig Economy WEBINAR
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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.
Advanced Tax Planning S Corporations WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Basis in S corporation stock. Distributions. Compensation planning. Qualified subchapter S subsidiaries. Liquidations, reorganizations, and redemptions. Estate planning and the use of trusts. Section 199A.
Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Cloud Forensics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.4 Credits
Forensic accounting. Accounting. Auditing. Finance.
Accounting Update in a Post COVID-19 World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Risk assessment. Government assistance. Pandemic-related accounting pronouncements. Learning to be an auditor in a pandemic environment. Financial statement disclosures. Exploring liquidity options.
Accounting and Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review of new accounting standards issued in 2025 and 2026. Applicable changes to accounting for government grants and crypto currency. Compilation and review standards and interpretations. Auditing standards including a deep dive into the quality management standards.
Federal Tax Update with Greg and George - Individual WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Important new tax cases. Legislative update (including Tax Cuts and Jobs Act extension). New administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.
Taxation of the Construction Contractor WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Walkthrough of accounting methods and relevant elections under IRC 460. Illustrative examples and analysis. Review of pertinent cases and revenue rulings. Update of other IRS activity, including recent Tax Reform.
Advanced Personal Financial Planning Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Retirement: accumulation and decumulation techniques, Social Security, Medicare and long-term care. Debt management, including mortgages and education financing. Insurance and investments from a life-planning perspective. Income tax legislation, cases, and rulings. Estate and trust planning strategies.
Basic Staff Tax Training: Individual WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Emphasize form 1040 and the accompanying reporting schedules for a basic individual income tax return. Identify and be able to implement basic individual income tax planning ideas for clients. Familiarity with several source documents utilized in the preparation of an individual income tax return. Identify common errors made in the preparation of an individual income tax return and understand how to avoid the errors in the future.
Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (Section 199A) – The Ins and Outs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of calculating the combined qualified business income amount. Determine what trade or businesses under Section 162 are eligible for the QBI deduction. Discuss how the 20% QBI deduction is subject to a wage and capital limitation and SSTB income is phased-out for taxpayers with taxable income above the inflation adjusted threshold amounts. Walk through the simplified QBI Form 8995 and detailed Form 8995-A and related schedules. Determine what wages and unadjusted basis immediately after acquisition (UBIA) are for those subject to the wage and capital limitations. Look at what the definition of QBI is and what items are effectively connected with that trade or business. Review the aggregation rules for the QBI computation and both the entity and individual level. Walk through the reporting responsibilities of partnerships and S corporations to their owners on the Schedule K-1s. Explain how the modifications to the net operating losses (NOLs) and Section 461(l) excess business loss limitations affect the QBI computation.