CPE & Event Catalog
Preparation, Compilations and Reviews - A Practical Workshop WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Preparation. Compilations. Reviews.
Retirement Advising: Accumulation and Decumulation Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The downside of traditional retirement asset accumulation strategies. Threats to a successful retirement. Holistic retirement planning: how personal goals integrate with tax, estate, risk, and investment management principles. Matching investment assets with the appropriate retirement plan and distribution strategy. Review the provisions of the SECURE Acts and how they will impact retirement planning.
How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concepts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Properly assessing inherent, control, and fraud risk on an engagement, and linking the results to an appropriately tailored detailed audit plan based on risk assessment and client service goals, regardless of entity type (for-profit, nonprofit, governmental). Leveraging strong substantive analytic procedures as audit evidence to cut back on tests of details. The most common efficiency opportunities for tailoring your audit approach based on risk. How to use the workpaper review process as a tool for producing a more effective and efficient engagement. Using audit documentation to enhance audit quality, while ensuring every workpaper has a purpose. How to use the client to your advantage in planning and performing the audit. Learn how to get the engagement out the door on time and on budget.
Advanced Trust Issues: A Roadmap for Success in an Increasingly Complex Area WEBCAST - presented by the Montana Society of CP
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Key concepts of trusts, including recent trends; best practices; jurisdiction; and ways to avoid pitfalls.
The Most Critical Challenges in Governmental Accounting Today WEBCAST - presented by the Montana Society of CPAs
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The implementation of GASB No. 101 on compensated absences.
K2's Case Studies in Fraud and Technology Controls - 4 Hours WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Key fraud risks impacting businesses today. Examples of fraud and the monetary impact on victims. How to create, implement, and assess technology-based internal controls to reduce the probability of becoming a fraud victim.
Mastering The Three Pillars of Cybersecurity: Exploring the Technology Pillar WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Technology. Cybersecurity.
ChatGPT and Complex Financial and HR Conversations WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Budget allocation and negotiation techniques. Compensation and benefits structuring. Managing financial performance and layoffs. Financial and HR aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Regulatory compliance and ethical financial practices. Strategies for financial crisis management. Effective performance management systems.
PFP Update: Income Tax, Retirement and Estate Planning WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The personal financial planning process. Relevance to income tax. Retirement and estate planning concerns and solutions.
How Fraud Can Affect Smaller Organizations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The reasons for fraud. Fraudulent acts that are initiated against smaller organizations. Methods to stop fraud attempts against small businesses.
Accounting and Auditing Update for Not-for-Profits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Not-for-profit accounting update. Revenue recognition in not-for-profits. FASB update. Auditor's report and conforming changes. Auditing Standards Board update. SQMS No. 1. A Firm's System of Quality Management. Governmental auditing update.
Creative Strategies for Buying, Selling, or Gifting a Business WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Valuation methods for business interests. Stock purchase versus asset purchase. Estate transfer and tax considerations. Gifting strategies for business interests. Trusts and partnerships in business transfers. Self-canceling installment notes in transactions. Transferring S corporation stock to trusts. Business interest transfer with Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
Strategies for Guiding Clients Through Challenging Situations: Tax Insights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Tax considerations in divorce, including support obligations and property division. Bankruptcy, debt cancelation, and financial hardship tax implications. Tax treatment of cohabitation, premarital agreements, and exemptions. Child support, alimony, and dependency issues. Business dissolution and tax consequences. Filing status options and tax rate comparisons. Head of household qualifications and tax advantages. Impact of refunds, deficiencies, and marital property rules.
2025 Yellow Book Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Yellow Book engagements. Independence requirements in GAGAS. Quality management in Yellow Book. Common deficiencies found in Yellow Book engagements.
PFP Update: Issues, Exposures and Developing Client Strategy WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Cash flow management. Insurance, investment, income tax, education, retirement and estate planning. Understanding client issues, diagnosing client exposures and determining client solutions. Closely held business owner strategies.
Dashboard and Report Design Principles Using Excel WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Principles of visual design for dashboards and reports. Chart design for rapid understanding. Table design for efficiency. Effective use of commentary. Strategic layout techniques. Trend analysis methods. Developing organizational design standards. Excel application techniques. Critical review skills. Best practices for data presentation.
Prix Fixe: Smooth Cash Flows: Demystifying Straight-Lining of Rental Income WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Accounting methods for rental income. Recognizing revenue over time. Ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
Partnership/LLC Taxation: Understanding Tax Basis Capital Accounts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Property distributions in liquidation of a partner's interest. Section 751 and its impact on property distributions from a partnership. Mechanics of completing Form 7217 - new for 2024. The Section 754 election and its role in partnership property distributions.
How to Get a Better Return on Yellow Book and Single Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Audit Concepts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Discover the fundamental differences in the auditor's responsibilities between financial statement audits performed in accordance with the SASs and Yellow Book. Understand risk assessment factors above those associated with a financial statement audit only. Learn what must be done beyond the financial statement audit in order to issue required Yellow Book and Single Audit reports on internal controls and compliance. Master designing, performing and documenting effective and efficient tests of compliance requirements. Practice identifying, documenting and communicating the impact of internal control deficiencies and compliance audit findings to the client. Common peer review deficiencies.
Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Taxable terminations. Mismatch between available exemption and GST and utilizing excess GST. GST elections on Form 709 and automatic allocations.