CPE & Event Catalog
2025 Annual Update for Accountants & Auditors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
Accounting standards updates. Auditing and accounting.
Defining Where and Why Internal Controls are Needed WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Control design basics. Areas or segments of an enterprise to control. Controls to reduce risk. Controls to drive operations.
Accounting and Reporting Long-Term Debt WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Debt terms that impact classification of debt, such as due on demand and subjective acceleration clauses, and more. Proper treatment of short-term obligations that are expected to refinance within the next 12 months. "Revolving" credit agreements, where short-term debt is automatically replaced with other short-term debt for a specified period of time. Differentiating between debt modifications and troubled debt restructuring. Debt covenant compliance special considerations, including the proper form of waiver of rights to call the debt for violation.
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.
Generative AI in Practice-Boost Efficiency and Profitability WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Implementing AI for accounting automation. Enhancing auditing processes with AI tools. AI applications in tax compliance. Leveraging AI for business advisory services.
2025 Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Accounting standards updates. Auditing and accounting.
SAS No. 122, AU 315, Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
How the effect of a misstatement due to error effects the scope of our audit vs a misstatement due to fraud. Inquires of management. The audit planning process. The importance of brainstorming. Revisions of our risk assessment. Determining materiality.
Artificial Intelligence: A Practical Guide for Financial Leaders and CFOs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AI Evolution: How has AI evolved and where does it stand today. Generative AI: What exactly is generative AI; and how is it different. AI Limitations: What AI can't, shouldn't or won't do. AI Applications: How can I practically use AI right now.
2025 Annual Update for Governmental Accountants & Auditors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
Single audit updates. Auditing and accounting. Yellow book.
Preparation, Compilation and Review Issues - Highlights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AR-C 60, AR-C 70, AR-C 80, and AR-C 90.
S Corporation (Form 1120S) - Formation to Liquidation WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Extensive review of the S corporation tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes including any TCJA provisions expiring after 2025. Requirements to make an S election (i.e., types and numbers of shareholders and second class of stock issues). Fixing late S corporation elections (i.e., Form 2553). S corporation formation (Section 351) and liquidation issues. Revocation and termination of S corporations. Schedule K and K-1. Separately stated versus non-separately stated income and expense items. Detailed Schedule K-1 reporting including the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction and 3.8% net investment income tax. Compensation issues including the tax treatment of fringe benefits. Built in gains tax and other planning opportunities when converting a C to S corporation. Preparation of the Schedule M-2 and the ordering rules for distributions out of the AAA, PTI, E&P and OAA accounts. Tax treatment of stock redemptions (sale or distribution ).
Accounting for the Gig Economy WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Characteristics unique to the gig economy. Independent contractor and employee classification considerations. Recordkeeping considerations for independent contractors. Accounting and reporting issues for gig economy participants. Audit and attestation for clients who participate in the gig economy. Tax and regulatory considerations. The CPA as a trusted advisor for independent contractors.
Statements on Quality Management Standards 1-3: What the Standards Require WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
SQMS 1: A Firm s System of Quality Management. SQMS 2: Engagement Quality Reviews. SQMS 3: Amendments to SQMS 1 and 2.
Excelling at Excel: The Magic of Power Query WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Intro to Power Query and how to get started. Examples of data clean up using Power Query. Combining workbooks and files with Power Query.
HR Investigations - Episode 2 - Interview Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Interview terminology. Types of questions. Levels of listening. Verbal and nonverbal communications. Documenting results.
Accommodation Requests - Substance Abuse - Contagious Infections WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Accommodation requests - religious practices. Accommodation requests - disabilities. Substance Abuse - constructive confrontation. Substance Abuse - duty to accommodate as a disability. Disclosures of potentially contagious infections.
Inventory, Expense and Payroll Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Methods of committing inventory, expense and payroll fraud. What to look for when observing inventory. Detection of inventory fraud. How to recognize fictitious expenses. How to recognize altered expenses. Indicators of fake documentation. The three main reason we ask for documentation. Detection and prevention of ghost employees.
Living Trust Administration Workshop WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The steps in trust administration. Delaware Tax Trap - its unique use. Change of the exemption in 2026 and its impact. Whether to file a 706 for portability election or Q-Tipping the Credit Trust. Preparation of trust accountings. Trust administration of Medi-Cal Trusts, QPRT, GRAT and IDGTs.
Top 10 Things to Know About Estate Taxation & Planning WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The Numbers: Exemptions, exclusions and discounts. Portability and step-up in basis. Asset valuation. Deductions: Marital, charitable, transmission and administration. Retirement plan assets, annuities and life insurance. Trust funding and administration.
Staff Tax Training: Partnerships and LLCs - Form 1065 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
16.0 Credits
Extensive review of the partnership tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes and Form 1065 (and related schedules) preparation issues. Overview of different forms of business entities, including the check-the-box regulations. Formation issues, including the mandatory allocation of the Section 704(c) pre-contribution gain or losses back to the contributing partner/member. Schedule K and K-1 preparation issues including separately and non-separately stated income and expense items (including the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction, 3.8% net investment income tax, business interest deduction limitations, fringe benefits and entertainment expenses). Calculating the tax and Section 704(b) book capital accounts. Understand the substantial economic effect requirement to have special allocations to the partners/members. Allocation of recourse and non-recourse debt to the schedule K-1s. Deductibility of fringe benefits, including health insurance premiums. Guaranteed payments and self-employment tax issues and pitfalls. Overview of how partnership losses and deductions can be limited to calculating a partner's/member's outside basis and at-risk rules. Section 754 election for optional basis adjustments triggering. Section 743 (transfer of interests) and Section 734 (distributions). Partnership liquidation and distribution tax ramifications at both the partnership and partner level.