CPE & Event Catalog
Closely Held Business Owner Financial Planning Opportunities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Insurance planning. Investment planning. Business succession planning. Income tax planning. Practice management and marketing. Retirement planning. Executive compensation. Estate planning.
Effective Coaching Strategies for High Performance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Coaching. Effective communication. Problem solving. Use of AI as a coaching tool.
Addressing Common Documentation Deficiencies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AU-C 230. Auditing.
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The shift to predictive accounting for decision making, planning, and budgeting. Problems with traditional annual budget processes. Develop a driver-based operational budget based on resource capacity planning. Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable. Create closed loop capacity plans. Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts. Integrating enterprise risk management with management accounting. Applying target costing for cost estimating.
Common Yellow Book & Single Audit Deficiencies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Auditing. Yellow book. COVID-related funds.
Nonprofit Internal Control - Practical Insights into Mitigating Financial Reporting, Compliance and Other Risks WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Recognizing the importance of each of the key components of a sound system of internal controls over financial reporting, regardless of a nonprofit entity's nature, size or complexity. Understanding the critical role of IT general and application controls to reliable financial reporting, even in less-complex IT environments. Exercise in documenting an understanding of the design of internal controls for common classes of transactions for nonprofit entities. Identifying and evaluating the sufficiency of key controls to satisfy control objectives. Understanding the importance of verifying whether an understanding of the design of internal controls has actually been "implemented", and how to exactly go about doing that.
All About Fraud - Examples, Prevention and Auditing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Auditing. Fraud.
Tax Practice Standards WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Treasury Circular 230. AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services (SSTS). Internal Revenue Code (IRC). Common law.
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.
Getting SASsy - A Look at Recent Auditing Standards WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Revised audit report layout. Various auditing standards that will soon be effective. Selected-procedures engagements and other attestation developments.
2025 Annual Update for Accountants & Auditors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
Accounting standards updates. Auditing and accounting.
Minimizing Workplace Warfare WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Sources of workplace conflict. Conflict resolution strategies. Communication skills and active listening. Conflict management techniques.
Five Ways to Improve Your Leadership Skills WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Leadership. Self-awareness. Communication. Delegation. Empowerment.
Officer Compensation Audits: What It Is and How to Defend It WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of Reasonable Compensation requirements for S and C Corporations. Key court rulings and their implications. IRS audit procedures related to Officer Reasonable Compensation. Role of Accountable Plans in determining Reasonable Compensation. Strategies for defending Reasonable Compensation.
Leveraging Analytical Procedures to the Fullest on Audits - Case Studies in Strengthening Audit Evidence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How well-designed analytic procedures enhance audit quality. Elements of strong analytic procedures. Selecting the proper analytic and altering the strength for the intended purpose. Evaluating the data used in generating expectations. Improving documentation, including evaluating sufficiency and appropriateness of the audit evidence obtained.
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.
Fiduciary Accounting Part 1: Fiduciary Duty Basics & Authority WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What is fiduciary duty, and how does it apply to a trustee or personal representative. What are the state statutory accounting rules, and where can you find them. What is fiduciary accounting income What is fiduciary account principal. How does fiduciary accounting impact fiduciary taxation.
Advanced Integrated Planning: Mastering Estate, Financial, and Asset Protection Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Contemporary estate and gift tax landscape. Domicile considerations in estate and financial planning. Life insurance trust dynamics and tax implications. Transfers to split-interest trusts and associated tax considerations. Qualified personal residence trusts: benefits and challenges. Grantor retained trust arrangements and planning techniques. Charitable trust strategies and their complexities. Family limited partnerships: structure and benefits. Intentionally defective grantor trusts and their potential.
Staff Tax Training: Individuals (Form 1040) WEBCAST
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Your Desk
24.0 Credits
An extensive review of the individual income tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes and Form 1040 (and related schedules) preparation issues. Walk through the detailed 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction computation and Form 8995/8995-A. Form 1040 gross income items including wages, interest and dividends (Schedule B), alimony, refunds, unemployment compensation, pension, IRA s, social security and other miscellaneous income items. Schedule A allowable itemized deductions and changes after the TCJA. Schedule C and F trade or business income and deductions Form 4562 depreciation, amortization and Section 179 expense. Schedule D sales of capital assets and personal residences. Form 4797 sale of trade or business property, including the ordinary income recapture rules under IRC Section 1245 and Section 1250. Schedule E rentals, passive activities and flow-through entities K-1s. Adjustments to gross income, including IRAs, SEPs, SIMPLEs, HSAs, tuition and fees, alimony paid, student loan interest and self-employed health insurance deduction. Overview of the various taxes, including income, capital gain, self-employment, household employee, kiddie taxes, AMT and 3.8% net investment income tax.