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.
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.
How to Audit Cash WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Auditing cash. Audit assertions, risks, and threats to the cash balance. Auditing procedures to perform.
Businesses Receiving Government Assistance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What is Yellow Book? What is different because of Yellow Book? When might Yellow Book apply to a business? Common application of concepts to businesses. Answers to common questions.
Introduction to Single Audit WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Single audit. Yellow book.
Effectively Responding to IRS Letters WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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.
Audit Skills for Beginners WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Professional skepticism - Creating a mindset for finding fraud and error. Audit documentation basics - Creating workpapers that pass review. The audit risk model - Understanding the foundational principles. Internal control fundamentals - Satisfying the requirements for evaluating the design and implementation of internal control over financial reporting.
Sampling - Avoiding Common Mistakes on Financial Statement and Compliance Audits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Types of sampling and sampling risk. Differentiating statistical and nonstatistical sampling approaches. Attribute testing for tests of controls and compliance. Variables sampling for substantive audit assurance when performing tests of details. Determining sample sizes in a compliance audit in conformance with Uniform Guidance.
Preparing and Reviewing Workpapers for Higher Quality Audits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The primary purpose of workpaper documentation, and minimum documentation requirements for workpaper preparers. Best practices for documenting complex and subjective procedures and conclusions, such as estimates, substantive analytic procedures, etc. that impact the nature and extent of audit documentation needed to support audit conclusions. Discussing the financial statement audit risk concept, including how proper application better ensures a higher quality audit. Tips for an efficient workpaper review process that complies with relevant standards.
2025 Single Audit Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Review of the impact of the 2024 Compliance Supplement on Single Audits. Review of the changes to the Uniform Guidance. Review of common audit deficiencies found in Single Audits.
Comprehensive Pass-Through Owners? Basis and Distribution Rules WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the owner s individual income tax return (i.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations). Determine how to calculate an owner's initial tax basis of his pass-through entity. Learn how to correctly make annual adjustments to a pass-through owner's tax basis. Identify what constitutes a debt basis for an S corporation shareholder. Learn the tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders.
SAS No. 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
The importance of professional skepticism. The dangers of making assumptions. How to listen and understanding the answer to a question. Why it is important to leave all of your expectations at home. Anticipation and why it's so dangerous. Determining materiality. The fraud triangle. Thinking about, given a set of circumstances, how you would steal. Management and the tone at the top.
Annual Tax Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Federal tax changes and developments during 2025 and pending changes, including legislative, administrative and procedural changes. Explore in detail the latest statutory, regulatory and judicial developments impacting tax issues.
Analyzing Financial Statements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Financial reporting and financial statements. Use of Non-GAAP performance measures and key performance indicators. Forecasting. Valuation. Comprehensive financial statement analysis with case study.
Deep Dive Into Common Auditing Deficiencies WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review common deficiencies identified by the AICPA and state boards of accountancy. Feature discussion on a variety of topics, including analytical procedures, sampling, group audits and risk assessment. Review of the areas of concern and how you can overcome them by employing best practices.
2025 Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Accounting standards updates. Auditing and accounting.
Officer Compensaton Audits: What It Is and How to Defend It WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of Reasonable Compensation requirements for S and C Corporations, Key court rulings and their implications, IRS audit procedures related to Officer Reasonable Compensation, Role of Accountable Plans in determining Reasonable Compensation, Strategies for defending Reasonable Compensation.
Audits of HUD Assisted Projects WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
Audit requirements. Audit procedures. Requirements under HUD Consolidated Audit Guide and the Uniform Guidance.
Accounting Industry Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
FASB Technical Agenda and upcoming changes. ASUs. Implementation dates and methods. Audit quality initiatives. Changes to AICPA auditing standards and PCAOB standards.