CPE & Event Catalog
Addressing Common Documentation Deficiencies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AU-C 230. Auditing.
Performance Auditing Made Easy WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
Performance audit standards. Performance audit types. Performance audit objectives.
How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concepts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
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.
Getting SASsy - A Look at Recent Auditing Standards WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Risk assessment (SAS 145). Quality management standards (SAS 146). Predecessor auditor inquiries (SAS 147). Group financial statement audits (SAS 149).
2025 Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Accounting standards updates. Auditing and accounting.
What Every CPA Should Know About Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How fraud is detected. The role of external auditors in finding fraud. Revenue recognition issues. Corrupt management. Data mining. Physical and biometric controls
S Corporations - Overview WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of S Corporation election and compliance requirements. Comparison of S Corporations with other business entities. Preparing Form 2553 and addressing late filing relief. Shareholder stock and debt basis considerations. Form 1120S and Schedule K-1: key aspects and reporting requirements. Officer reasonable compensation requirements and IRS audit strategies. Introduction to Schedules K-2 and K-3. Compliance with corporate formalities and taxable fringe benefits.
Introduction to Yellow Book Boot Camp WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Yellow book. Uniform Guidance.
Group Audits: Who is Responsible for What? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Responsibilities of the group audit engagement team, including the group engagement partner. Clarifying roles and responsibilities of component auditors and reference auditors in audits of group financial statements. Special considerations on audit planning and audit reporting in a group audit.
Common Deficiencies in Employee Benefit Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
EBP. Auditing.
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.
Generative AI in Practice-Boost Efficiency and Profitability WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Implementing AI for accounting automation. Enhancing auditing processes with AI tools. AI applications in tax compliance. Leveraging AI for business advisory services.
K2's Advanced Excel WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Collaboration and security techniques. Tables, data models, and PivotTables. Advanced formulas. Data queries. Creating effective visualizations.
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.
International Cross Border Transactions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.2 Credits
International cross border transactions. Decrease an entities effective tax rate. IRS audit risk.
Resistance to Resiliency: Striving for Technology Change Acceptance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Strategic alignment model. Technology change acceptance.
LLCs & S Corps - A Comparative Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.5 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.
Internal Control Fundamentals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
COSO. Auditing.
Auditing Standards: A Comprehensive Review WEBCAST
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Your Desk
16.0 Credits
Efficient audit planning, documentation and research. Risk assessment procedures relate control risk to substantive testing and reduce the risk of lawsuits. Fraud requirements. Testing management's estimates. Auditing standards.