CPE & Event Catalog
Performance Management WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Setting and resetting performance expectations. On-the-spot counseling. Addressing erratic performance. Drafting and presenting performance appraisals.
Common Sense CFO: Dealing with Ever Changing Accounting Standards and Strategy Demands WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding the modern finance and accounting organization chart. Why is strategy necessary? The two keys to strategy. Why do some financial leaders lack strategic skills? Balancing strategy with our day-to-day roles.
Making Culture A Competitive Advantage WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Talent strategy. Culture. Employee engagement. Employee retention. Leadership. Leadership strategy.
Interviewing, Onboarding and Training 101 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Best practices on interviewing. Best practices for onboarding. Best practices with training.
Key Tax Issues for Business Taxpayers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The all-important impending expiration/extension/renewal of the TCJA. Other recent legislative, judicial, and IRS developments impacting business taxpayers. Current status of Research and Experimentation costs and Interest Expense Limitation. Phaseout of Bonus Depreciation and MACRS issues. Partnership and S corporation legislative updates.
The Controller Function - Elevating the Role WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
Accounting. Finance.
You Don't Know What You Don't Know About Microsoft Excel WEBINAR
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Excel shortcuts and time savers. Working with templates, formats, styles, and themes. Customizing and enhancing Excel. Protecting and securing workbooks. Formula building and the Excel function library.
2025 Accounting & Auditing Update for Small Businesses WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
ASUs that are most likely to impact small businesses. ASUs initiated by the PCC. Alternative reporting options to GAAP including FRF for SMEs and IFRS for SMEs. Audit standards that small business auditors will need to implement.
Using ChatGPT with Excel WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to ChatGPT and other AI language models. Discussion of best practices for using ChatGPT with Excel. Use ChatGPT to create, debug and explain formulas. Use ChatGPT to learn how to use Excel features. Use ChatGPT to automate repetitive tasks in Excel. Use ChatGPT to easily create macros.
Corporate Fraud Risk & Investigations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Types of corporate fraud. Introduction to fraud risk. Fraud risk prevention programs. Fraud investigations.
Estate Planning for 2025 and Beyond WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Analysis of upcoming trends and anticipated shifts in estate planning practices. Review of legislative updates affecting estate planning strategies in 202 5and beyond. Advanced techniques for minimizing estate taxes and maximizing wealth transfer efficiency. Integration of digital assets and technology into estate planning frameworks. Consideration of unique challenges presented by blended families, same-sex marriages, and non-traditional relationships. Utilization of sophisticated tools such as trusts, family partnerships, and charitable vehicles in estate planning. Exploration of international estate planning considerations and cross-border implications. Embracing sustainable and socially responsible practices in estate planning. Strategies for philanthropy and legacy planning within the estate planning framework.
Federal Tax Update: Individual Form 1040 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Review of recent federal legislation and administrative rulings. Review of recent modifications to tax forms. Review of small business tax law and administrative update changes. Review of retirement plan changes. Overall review of tax practice and procedures.
Financial Reporting Fundamentals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Financial statements, disclosures and presentations. Review of two annual financial reports (IFRS and U.S. GAAP).
Partnership & LLC (Form 1065) - Formation to Liquidation WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Extensive review of the partnership tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes including any TCJA provisions expiring after 2025. 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 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. Calculating the tax and Section 704(b) book capital accounts. Substantial economic effect requirement to have special allocations to the partners/members. Allocation of recourse and non-recourse debt on K-1s. Guaranteed payment issues and tax treatment of fringe benefits. Self-employment tax issues and pitfalls. Tax treatment of distributions - cash versus non-cash and liquidating versus non-liquidating. Sales and liquidations (redemptions) of partnership interests. Section 754 optional basis adjustments and mandatory adjustments.
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.
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.
Comprehensive Estate Planning: Administration & Postmortem Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Introduction to estate administration. How to read a last will and testament. Understanding the entities. Administration the estate and orderly process. The probate process and the courts. Special issues in estate administration. Postmortem issues regarding income taxation of descendants and estates. Post mortem opportunities on the estate income tax return. Available post mortem estate tax elections. Portability election. Disclaimers.
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.
Small Business Retirement Plans: Picking the Right Plan for Your Client WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Which clients are best suited for each of the following plans: SEP-IRA's. Which clients are best suited for each of the following plans: SIMPLE IRA's, 401(k)'s, Traditional and Roth IRA's, Defined benefit plans. How will SEP Roth and SIMPLE Roth contributions work under the SECURE Act 2.0? What are the payroll tax consequences of choosing each type of plan. Which plans provide the greatest flexibility? Which plan can provide the quickest accumulation of retirement savings?
Avoiding Legal Liability and Peer Review Deficiencies in Nonaudit Services, Including Bookkeeping and Preparing Financial Statements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Differentiating risks faced when performing nonaudit services, such as reviews, compilations, preparing financial statements, bookkeeping, tax return preparation, and similar. Best practices for preventing quality control concerns that could lead to peer review deficiencies or malpractice claims. Establishing an understanding with the client to minimize misunderstandings as to the nature and scope of engagements. Explain situations when independence should be appropriately safeguarded when performing nonattest services.