CPE & Event Catalog

Crises Management: Organizations frequently face crises. How you respond can determine your organization's future. This course will equip you with essential skills for effective crisis handling and organizational resilience. Fraud Prevention: Fraud impacts over 80% of organizations, causing annual losses exceeding $10 billion. Are you ready to strengthen your organization and protect clients against fraud risks? We offer strategies to create a strong anti-fraud culture and provide tools for preventing, detecting, and managing fraud. Fraud Investigation: Unlike accounting audits, fraud investigations require specialized training that many lack. The aim is to ensure that findings are robust and admissible when cases are referred to law enforcement. Participants will learn how to respect the rights of all parties, preserve evidence, use proper surveillance, and distinguish between company materials and personal property. Conducting effective investigations is complex, and it's vital to be aware of the many risks. The Impact of AI on Finance: Organizations of all sizes are rapidly adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). But why should this matter to accounting, internal audit, finance, and IT professionals? We will highlight the differences between chat-based AI search tools and more advanced AI applications. We will provide example policies for responsible AI use and resources for further learning. While these technologies offer significant capabilities, they also come with risks. We will discuss the greater risk.

Key considerations and challenges in estate settlement. Asset collection, accounting, and creditor payments in estate administration. Distribution challenges and solutions in estate settlements. Probate process: implications and management in estate administration. Will contests challenges and resolutions. Fiduciary duties, responsibilities, and accounting in estate administration. Stakeholder rights and protections in estate administration. Federal and state death tax implications in estate administration. Ancillary estate administration matters and special considerations. Trust-related issues and special considerations in estate administration.

New law provisions and guidance and tax form changes affecting business entities, tax-exempts and estates and trusts with emphasis on details of relevant energy and research credits, loss limitation and any federal law changes in 2025. Key cases and IRS and FTB guidance affecting partnerships, LLCs, C corporations, and S corporations. Employment taxes and worker classification matters. Accounting method developments. Tax credits updates Federal and California. The state of California and multistate significant developments, including nexus and sourcing. Expired and expiring provisions Inflation-adjusted amounts for 2026.

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.

Determining when filing a Tax Court case can be a strategic benefit. Learn how to file the case. Understand the steps and deadlines in the Tax Court process. Review the settlement process. Know when the case gets to the point where you need help.

Auditing. Fraud.

The latest advocacy efforts, regulatory updates, and what's ahead for CPAs in Washington.

Leadership. Personality Types. Communication. Uses of AI in the work place.

The Not-for-Profit Advisory Committee (NAC). Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs). Year 2 considerations of the leases standard. Common nonprofit deficiencies identified in peer review. What's going on at the AICPA.

Defining the budget process. Common budgetary cultures and discussion of solutions. Does your budget need an overhaul or just a tune up? How to make the budget flexible. Making a better budget and maybe even a better you (or at least improving the perception of the budget work itself).

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.

Auditing.

An emphasis on newly enacted tax legislation affecting IRAs, including the NEW final required minimum distribution (RMD) regulations. Contribution limits to and tax treatment of distributions from Traditional, Roth, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs. Deductible phase-out limits for Traditional IRA contributions for taxpayers who are active participants in qualified retirement plans. Roth IRA contribution phase-out limits, as well as tax-free qualified distributions. Planning opportunities for conversions to ROTH IRAs Rollover rules to/from different retirement accounts and the one-rollover-per-year limitation. The different options of receiving IRA distributions before age 59 « and avoiding the 10% early distribution penalty (including substantially equal periodic payments). The required minimum distribution (RMD) rules from IRAs needed to avoid the 50% penalty after the account owner turns age 72 or dies. The tax ramifications of spouse and non-spouse beneficiaries and how this affects the RMD calculation after the account owner s death. Overview of health savings account (HSA) eligibility rules, contribution limits and distribution rules.

Team dynamics. Influence. Organizational behavior. Leadership.

Data preparation and cleansing. Pivot table creation. Pivot table customization. Navigating Excel's PivotTable Analyze tab.

Utilizing Power Query to access data from the web, spreadsheets, folders, and databases. Using Power Query to perform various transformations to clean up data before importing it to Power BI or Excel. Producing various reporting documents from data delivered from Power Query.

Types of external fraud. Considerations as organizations work to reduce fraud risk. External fraud and known parties. External fraud unknown perpetrators.

Understanding ethical implications of AI. Data privacy and security considerations. Compliance with regulations and professional standards. Developing ethical AI policies and procedures.

Introduction to ethics and ethical dilemmas. Ethical codes and professional standards. Fraud and the fraud triangle. Ethical decision-making models. Financial statement manipulation tactics. Cash flow and key metrics misrepresentations.

Advantages of budgeting. The role of budgeting. Master budgeting. Flexible budgeting. Standards and variances. Capital budgeting.