CPE & Event Catalog

Best practices for creating, editing, and managing PDFs. The process for creating and distributing PDF forms. Integrating PDFs with other applications. Securing your PDFs.

Top trends impacting the accounts payable function.

Define what it means to be a strategic leader. Evaluate your current strengths and identify areas for development. Describe the characteristics of trusted business advisors. Identify specific techniques to connect with, present to, and influence others.

Travel, entertainment, and auto rules.

Treasury management. Bank relations. Cash concentration. Cash forecasting. Clearing and settlement systems. Investment management. Equity financing. Debt financing, and more.

What is a True Sale Opinion, and when does it come into play? True Sale Opinion language. What are the audit impacts from restrictions on use. Conditions for sale accounting.

Trump Accounts Section 530A. Public Law 119-21. IRS Guidance under Section 530A.

Income for distribution purposes. Simple trusts. Deductions. Interest and dividends. Rental income. Partnerships and other pass-throughs.

What is the significance of the retirement plan beneficiary? Primary vs. contingent beneficiaries. Is a trust a designated beneficiary? Why do people want to name a trust as the beneficiary? Income tax aspects of trusts as beneficiary. What happens when the trust beneficiary dies?

Trust terminology. Marital trust vs. credit shelter trust. QPRTs.

How to translate ambiguous requests into outcome-driven deliverables

Sole proprietorship. General partnership. Limited partnership. C corporation. Limited liability company. S corporation. Business type comparison.

Revenue and earnings manipulation. Non-recurring items. Detecting improper use of non-recurring items. Deferred revenue. Detecting intentional misstatements in deferred revenue. Backdating transactions. Detecting backdating. Fraudulent journal entries. Detecting fraudulent journal entries. Expense and liability fraud. Misclassifying financial statement items. Improper use of reserves. Misrepresenting lease classifications, and more.

Past attempts at convergence. Loans and receivables. Investments in securities. Equity method investments and joint ventures. Intangible assets. Property, plant and equipment. Goodwill and indefinite-lived intangibles. Cryptocurrency. Liabilities. Contingencies. Debt extinguishments and modifications. Employee benefits. Revenue recognition. Income taxes. Broad transactions. Business combinations. Consolidation. Leases. Foreign currency.

ASC 835-20 scope. Capitalization period. Capitalization amount. Subsequent measurement. Disclosure requirements.

Routine cash management strategies. Transaction structuring. Financial reporting choices.

Understanding derivatives and hedge accounting. Types of derivatives. Derivative markets. Risk management purposes. Hedge accounting. Types of transactions. Types of hedges.

Overview of organizational behavior. Impact on ethical behavior. The organizational behavior model. The goals of organizational behavior. Levels of diversity. Taking advantage of diversity. The nature of attitude. Types of attitude. Characteristics of emotions and moods. How emotions are used, and more.

SEC reporting.

Social Security. Medicare.