CPE & Event Catalog
Peeking Behind the Curtain: Exploring IRS Audit Technique Guides WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of ATGs. Best practices for utilizing ATGs. Salient provisions of selected ATGs. Insights auditors may obtain from analytical procedures. Nuances associated with selected industries.
Money Laundering Awareness for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Money laundering overview. Role of tax examiners and auditors. Tax return examination. Pre-audit indicators. Audit flags. Real estate issues. Cash indicators. International trade signals. Loan considerations. Professional service provider concerns. Money laundering and ethics.
Partnership Checkup: Tax Issues & Forms Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Clarify the importance of partnership capital accounts and partnerships debt on partner's tax basis. Impact of contributed property. Explain the importance of shareholder loans to the entity. Discuss how basis is impacted by distributions of corporation property and the sale/or liquidation of the S corporation interest. Comprehensive examples illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process. Discusses how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting. How to get from the Schedule K-1 information to the basis calculations.
K2's Excel Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Accountants WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Fundamental Excel techniques all accounting and financial professionals should know and use. Creating date-based calculations in Excel. How to create Excel templates. Key options you should enable in Excel. Linking data in Excel.
Strategies for Guiding Clients Through Challenging Situations: Tax Insights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Tax considerations in divorce, including support obligations and property division. Bankruptcy, debt cancelation, and financial hardship tax implications. Tax treatment of cohabitation, premarital agreements, and exemptions. Child support, alimony, and dependency issues. Business dissolution and tax consequences. Filing status options and tax rate comparisons. Head of household qualifications and tax advantages. Impact of refunds, deficiencies, and marital property rules.
K2's Getting Started With Artificial Intelligence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding AI tools available today. Creating accounts in AI platforms. Querying data from AI platforms. Customizing your AI subscriptions.
2025 Washington Ethics and New Developments with Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, Washington ethics rules and recent changes, new developments, best practices for CPAs in public accounting and industry, case studies, and Washington administration and enforcement.
Understanding Partnership Taxation: Types of Basis, Contributions, and Distributions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Three different types of basis. Contributions of property. IRC 704(b) - Capital Accounts and Special Allocations. Contributions of property and debt. Contributions of services. IRS Notice 2020-43.
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.
Fringe Benefits & Compensation Planning - Today and Beyond WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Fringe benefit planning fundamentals. Strategies tailored for business owners and employees. Navigating IRC Sect. 132 fringe benefit option. Cafeteria plans demystified. Tax management in compensation planning. Understanding the implications of dependent care and educational assistance plans. Implementing flexible spending account plans effectively. Design features and regulations of group term life insurance plans. Medical savings accounts regulations. Financing options for retiree medical benefits. Health care benefits: insured plan vs. HMO comparison. ERISA reporting and disclosure requirements. IRC common control rules. Overview of age and sex discrimination rules.
Cost and Pricing Models: Boost Your Bottom Line WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Cost accounting. Activity-based costing.
Emerging Issues in Financial Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
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.
1040 Tax Prep Automation with AI Tools WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of AI technology and how it works. Identify where AI can be incorporated into the 1040 process. Using ChatGPT and Microsoft 365 Copilot for 1040 tax research, analysis and communications. Using Stanford Tax AI based software to automate client source document collection and organization and integrate it with the leading 1040 tax software solutions including CCH Axcess, CCH ProSystem fx, UltraTax, Lacerte, ProSeries and Drake. A roadmap for using AI to improve client communications and 1040 based advisory services.
2025 Yellow Book Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Yellow Book engagements. Independence requirements in GAGAS. Quality management in Yellow Book. Common deficiencies found in Yellow Book engagements.
A Fox in the Henhouse/Courthouse WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Internal controls. Fraud prevention. Fraud investigation.
Prix Fixe: State and Local Year End Tax Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Key legislative developments. Compliance deadlines. Strategies to optimize tax planning for individuals and local businesses.
Forgotten Managerial Accounting Tools WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Cost-volume-profit analysis, including target profit and break-even calculations. Variable costing. Relevant costs and decision-making. Standard costs and variances. Activity-based costing. Segment reporting and analysis. Capital budgeting considerations. Overview of Excel capabilities for supporting managerial analysis.
A Practitioner's Guide to IRAs and Qualified Retirement Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Traditional and Roth IRAs: Understanding retirement savings options. SEP and SIMPLE IRAs: Exploring retirement plans for small businesses. Qualified Plans: Navigating employer-sponsored retirement plans. Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans: Comparing retirement plan structures. 401(k) Plans: Maximizing benefits with employer-sponsored options. Retirement Plan Selection: Choosing the best plan for individual client needs. Minimum Distribution Rules: Ensuring compliance and understanding withdrawal regulations. Tax Implications: Analyzing the tax consequences of retirement plan decisions. Retirement Planning Strategies: Implementing effective strategies for client financial goals.
Responding To Retaliation Concerns and Capturing Key Retaliation Case Metrics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Speak up culture. Internal complaint reporting and investigations.
Data Analytics: Practical Insights for Today's Accountant WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Apply new effective tools in business processes. Better understand how to use data analytics in public accounting engagements. Identify popular software packages that may be useful for accomplishing data analytics.