CPE & Event Catalog

Incorporating investment services into a CPA practice. Risk management strategies for financial planning. Insurance requisites and tax implications, including life, health, and long-term care insurance. Overview of education funding options. Asset protection principles and methodologies. Common missteps in financial planning and strategies to prevent them. Required minimum distribution (RMD) rules and their application.

Review of select AICPA Technical Questions and Answers. Upcoming changes to accounting for goodwill, leasing and business combinations. Compilation and review standards and interpretations (SSARS). Auditing standards and interpretations (SAS and SSAE).

Career choices. Judicial proceedings. Mitigation strategies. Creating tools to help make better decisions. Atonement and reconciliation.

Criteria that the IRS uses to select returns for examination. Substantiation requirements for travel, charitable contributions, vehicles, meals, virtual currency considerations and tax-related identity theft. Understanding worker classification determinations on who is an employee and who is an independent contractor. Distinguishing S corporation officer's reasonable compensation issues. How the IRS holds persons other than an employer liable for unpaid payroll taxes. Tax-related identity theft procedures

Designing and performing sufficient audit procedures required for all audits, particularly when auditing privately-owned companies. Identify controls that exist, especially when those controls are not clearly identified or formalized. Evaluate if those controls prevent or detect material misstatements in the financial statements. Design effective audit procedures (including testing of controls where appropriate) in response to the auditor s assessed risk of the potential material misstatements in the financial statements.

Narcissism studies. Fraud. Embezzlement. Technology used in scams.

Detailed coverage of the passive activity rules under IRC Section 469 (and related regulations), how the 3.8% net investment income tax under Section 1411 and qualified business income (QBI) deduction under Section 199A applies to rentals and passive activities, and what is a trade or business rental is under Section 162. How the PAL rules apply to rental real estate activities and investments in S corporations and partnerships. Definition of activity and the activity grouping and disclosure rules. Real estate professional exception to the PAL rules for investments in non-passive rentals. Special $25,000 loss allowance for rental real estate with active participation. Material participation safe harbor rules. Events that trigger suspended PALs. Limitations on tax credits generated by passive activities. Special rules that re-characterize passive income to non-passive income. What rentals are subject to self-employment tax under Section 1402.

Underlying concepts of internal control. Defining where and why controls, policies and procedures are needed. Legacy control measures that are still important for businesses today. Creating control measures that address the use and protection of technology.

Emerging technologies. AI and RPA. Blockchain and 5G. Gears and gadgets. Internet-of-Things.

Calculation of basis when the entity is formed, including the impact of contributed property. How to calculate partnership tax basis capital accounts. Clarifies the how partnerships and S corporations debt impacts tax basis. Discusses how distributions affect basis. Explains how basis is impacted by sale and/or liquidation of the partnership or S-corporation interest. Discusses how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting. Comprehensive examples to illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process.

Understand what truly drives people. Unlock your team’s full potential. How your passions outside of work make you a stronger, more innovative professional. How to build stronger organization. And more!

The elements of fraud and the Fraud Triangle Theory. Types of fraud with a focus on management fraud. Best practices in fraud detection and deterrence.

Divorce and ongoing payment issues dealing with alimony and child support. Documents protecting a client going forward, including pre-nuptials, cohabitation agreements, post-nuptials and many others. Advanced income tax issues, including like-kind exchanges, filing status issues, credits and asset sales. Advanced retirement issues, including dissecting qualified, personal retirement, and nonqualified plans, QDROs, past and defunct plans, and using retirement assets to equalize assets. High-level valuation issues, including closely held business, stock redemptions, partnership redemptions and stock options.

Intestate succession and probate administration. Holding title to assets. Lifetime asset transfers and testamentary asset transfer planning. Structures to avoid or minimize transfer taxes. Living trusts, including A-B and A-B-C, life insurance trusts, terminating irrevocable trusts, use of trust protectors, trust administration during incapacity and post-mortem.

Considerations for the maintenance of an internal control system. The types of policies and procedures organizations should utilize. Reviewing and testing control measures. Updating controls and implementing control changes.

Overview of the current landscape for AI in business. History of ChatGPT and generative AI. Fundamentals of generative AI technology and related nomenclature. ABC's of how to use ChatGPT. Demonstration of practical ChatGPT applications for accounting, finance and tax. A word of caution: What you should be concerned about. Developing a ChatGPT usage policy for your firm.

The need to fund for long-term care in America. Client's attitudes and misconceptions. Innovative long-term care solutions and funding.

Are we equipped to deal with a resurgence in financial accounting fraud? Private company accounting standards, options and elections. The latest on crypto and ESG. Accounting and auditing for SAAS arrangements, impairments, going concern, and debt modification accounting. FASB and PCC agenda.

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.

Types of IRS letters: General notices, audits, collections, return requests, and errors. Deadlines for responding to IRS correspondence. Communication best practices for dealing with the IRS. Avoiding escalation and penalties through proactive responses. Ensuring compliance when addressing IRS correspondence. Real-world examples of successful IRS communications. Common pitfalls in handling IRS letters and how to avoid them.