CPE & Event Catalog
Practical Accounting Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
New rules in the accounting arena. SQMS. NOCLAR rules. Cybersecurity. New audit standards.
Hot IRS Tax Examination Issues for Individuals and Businesses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Prepare now and protect yourself from new audit examinations. What to do when there is tax-related identity theft. Understanding substantiation requirements for travel, charitable contributions, vehicles, meals, virtual currency considerations, and tax-related identity theft. Gaining an in-depth understanding of IRS hot examination issues including passive loss rules, real estate professional status, and the Section 199A provisions as they pertain to rental real estate. Identify how the IRS holds persons other than an employer liable for unpaid payroll taxes, a.k.a., the trust fund recovery penalty. Understanding IRS Audit Techniques Guides and Compliance Campaigns. Recognizing the 30-day letter and the 90-day letter, including what the taxpayer's responsibilities are.
Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of Audit Risk Assessment. AICPA's clarified Risk Assessment Standards. SAS 145. Assessing the Entity's Environment.
Prix Fixe: Single Audits - SEFAs and Beyond WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The SEFA. Documentation and other considerations.
Introduction to Forensic Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Forensic Accounting. Accounting. Auditing. Finance.
Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
FASB Statements and Interpretations. Statements on Auditing Standards and Statements on Quality Management Standards.
Audits Under Uniform Guidance - Single Audit & NPOs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Concepts of the Single Audit under the Uniform Guidance. Performing the compliance audit of federal awards, including testing auditee compliance and internal control over compliance. Auditor reporting responsibilities including the compliance audit reports, the report on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, and schedule of findings and questioned costs. Requirements for the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, known as the SEFA. Update on the OMB Compliance Supplement.
Audit & Attest Quality Matters that Should be on Your Radar - Avoiding Common Deficiencies in SAS, SSARS and SSAE Engagements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Applying professional skepticism to ensure quality work. Meaningful risk assessment when designing work programs for various levels of services. Proper planning and supervision of all engagements. Accountant responsibilities for evaluating internal control. Strengthening analytic procedures to support conclusions. Complying with the Code of Professional Conduct and quality management standards.
Auditing Standards Update & Best Practices WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Designing and performing sufficient audit procedures required for all audits, particularly when auditing privately-owned companies. Identify controls that exist, especially when those controls are not clearly identified or formalized. Evaluate if those controls prevent or detect material misstatements in the financial statements. Design effective audit procedures (including testing of controls where appropriate) in response to the auditor s assessed risk of the potential material misstatements in the financial statements.
Comprehensive S Corporation Taxation Form 1120S WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Learn how to qualify and to make the S corporation election. Determine how to calculate initial and annual stock and debt basis amounts and the three reasons why they are maintained. Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the shareholder s individual income tax return (i.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations). Understand the proper tax treatment and reporting of a distribution from the S corporation to a shareholder. Determine how to calculate AAA and OAA account for an S corporation as well as the 3 potential taxes. Determine the impact of health insurance, the net investment income tax, qualified business income tax deduction and unreasonable compensation issues on the reporting function of the S corporation.
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.
Internal Control Fundamentals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
COSO. Auditing.
Business Fraud Update and Managing the Risk of Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Business fraud. Fraud risk management and fraud risk assessments. Data analytics and digital analysis. Providing forensic services. Conducting investigations.
Clarifying Risk Assessment - SAS 145 and Beyond WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Assessing the risk of material misstatement. Mandatory risk assessment procedures. Evaluating internal controls. Responding to risk assessment with appropriate audit procedures. Complying with revised and expanded documentation requirements.
LLC's & S Corps -- A Comparative Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Comparative analysis of LLCs and S Corporations. Entity formation, compliance, and operational structures. Self-employment tax and its implications for LLCs and S Corporations. Form 2553 preparation and relief for late filings. Rev. Proc. 2022-19 and Rev. Proc. 2023-3: analysis and application. S Corporation eligibility errors and corrective measures. Corporate governance and formalities for both entity types. Shareholder stock and debt basis for S Corporations. Forms 1120S, 1065, and related schedules (K-1, K-2, K-3). Officer reasonable compensation and general partner guaranteed payments. Audit strategies, estate planning, and business continuation planning.
The Yellow Book: From Beginning to End WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Foundation and principles. General requirements for complying with Government Auditing Standards. Ethics, independence and professional judgment. Competence and continuing professional education. Quality control and peer review. Standards for financial audits. Standards for attestation engagements and reviews of financial statements.
Beyond the Basics of SSARS and Nonattest Services: Are You Certain You Are in Compliance? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Preventing malpractice claims related to nonattest accounting services. Identifying and safeguarding independence threats when issuing attest reports. Establishing an understanding with the client regarding non-audit services. Defining the varying levels of responsibility for accountants performing non-audit services. Performing compilations and reviews effectively and efficiently, including nature and extent of documentation considerations. Practice performing analytical review procedures appropriately, including developing proper advance expectations for review engagements. Properly considering going concern, subsequent events, and other disclosure matters. Common issues related to peer reviews, including recurring reporting problems. Applying financial analysis best practices to help your clients better interpret their financial results.
FAQ Related to the Most Recent Audit Standards SAS Nos. 142-149 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Clarification of terminology and foundational principles underlying recent generally accepted auditing standards. Answers to frequently asked questions that emerge in the proper application of risk-based audit concepts. Highlights of important concepts included in SASs No. 142-149.
What's Changing in A&A for Governmental Entities WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
A look at the GASB standards that are effective this year. GASB 100, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections. GASB 101, Compensated Absences. The impact of the 2024 Compliance Supplement on Single Audits. Changes to the Uniform Guidance. Common deficiencies found in Single Audits.