CPE & Event Catalog
How to Audit Expenses & Payables WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The basics of auditing expenses. Accrued liabilities and other payables. Relates audit assertions, risks, and threats to the expenses and payables balances. Substantive auditing procedures to perform.
2025 Annual Update for Governments and Not-for-Profits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
7.0 Credits
Not for profit. Governmental auditing and accounting. Yellow book.
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: GRIT, GRAT, GRUT, and QPRT.
Internal Controls That May Have Prevented Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understand what factors allowed certain frauds to occur. Recognize what internal controls may have prevented the frauds. Consider application of these lessons to circumstances you encounter in your professional endeavors.
K2's Excel Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Accountants WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Fundamental Excel techniques all accounting and financial professionals should know and use. Creating date-based calculations in Excel. How to create Excel templates. Key options you should enable in Excel. Linking data in Excel.
2025 Business Tax Credits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Research and development tax credit. Work opportunity tax credit. Covid-19 tax credits. Opportunity zones. Go-biz incentives. Employment training panel.
Getting the Most When Selling a Business: Little Details to Get Top Value WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What do buyers really want? Steps to take so your business will be attractive to buyers. The process to prepare for a sale.
K2's AI - Better Prompts, Better Results WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Components of effective AI prompts. The pros and cons of a single large prompt versus multiple small prompts. Using prompts to format AI-generated output.
Excel Essentials for Today's Accountant: How To Become an Expert in One Day WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Using formulas to manipulate and transform data. Using formulas and reference formulas. Using pivot tables. Understanding Solver to perform multivariate analysis. Awareness of advanced functions. Creative methods for data manipulation. Using intellectual curiosity and professional skepticism to develop a problem-solving mentality. Real-life examples of innovative ways to analyze and report data with Excel. Using Excel to perform e-mail merges. Enhance creativity in your approach to developing Excel models Computer software and application.
Real Estate Tax Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation, rules and developments impacting real estate owners and investors. Section 179 for qualified real property. Section 179 for non-residential roofs, HVAC fire protection and security systems. Section 163(j) interest expense limitation, including electing out and ADS depreciation. Introduction to opportunity zones.
ChatGPT and Advanced Accounting Research WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The accounting research transformation: Comparing Google vs. AI methodologies. AI ecosystems and specialized models for accounting applications. Advanced prompt engineering techniques for financial and tax research. AI-powered search engines and deep research platforms for accounting professionals AI as an ideation and thinking partner for complex accounting problems Specialized accounting research tools and AI superstores. Persona priming and P&P stacking methodologies for optimal AI interactions. Ethical considerations and limitations of AI in accounting research. The compliance chess effect: AI's impact on tax planning and regulatory response. AI-driven automation for regulatory updates and compliance monitoring.
Prix Fixe: How to Prepare for an Audit WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The ever-evolving landscape of audit preparedness.
Big Picture Mega-Trends, Big Data, and World We Now Face WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
On-going world economic trends. Demographic changes and their impact on the economy. Global technology influences. Post Covid workplace. Big data understanding and where is it going. Learn to adapt to changing situations.
Integrate ChatGPT into Your Client Advisory Services-Updated WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
ChatGPT and generative AI technology primer. Building your generative AI vocabulary. Dig deeper into your engagement research to develop a higher quality advisory service. Polish your client reporting with the help of ChatGPT. Developing your ChatGPT client advisory services. Start with client education. You don't need to be a technical expert to be an educator. Use AI to help your clients automate their workflows and business processes. Build better spreadsheets with ChatGPT and Excel. Help your clients identify, evaluate and select applications for their business.
Ethical Considerations in Working with Cannabis WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Framework for assessing the propriety of offering services within the state legal, regulated cannabis industry. Assist in identifying key stakeholders to be considered in conjunction to providing cannabis industry services. Banking relationships. Malpractice insurance.
Financial Accounting for Related Party Transactions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
FASB codification provisions for transactions with related parties, including business owners and special purpose entities. Compares and contrasts those rules with the AICPA financial reporting framework for small and medium-sized entities. Reviews the tax accounting related taxpayer standards. Several real-life situations illustrate the various authoritative standards and discuss the consequences of failing to comply with those standards.
Practical Accounting Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
New rules in the accounting arena. SQMS. NOCLAR rules. Cybersecurity. New audit standards.
Data Extraction, Transformation, Validation the Right Data Sources for Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understand various data types. Structured vs. unstructured data. Completeness and validation testing. Selecting the right data sources for the job. Risks and pitfalls to avoid.
Preparing Quality of Earnings Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Uses of a Quality of Earnings Report. Information needed to prepare the report. Overlapping enterprise valuation concepts. Various adjustments to "as reported" EBITDA.
Understanding Apportionment for a Multistate Business WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Apportionment Formulas. Sourcing Rules for service income and income from intangibles. Throwback and throw-out and when they apply. Apportionment applied to flow-through entities and sole proprietorships. Learn about Alternative Apportionment.