CPE & Event Catalog
K2's CPA Firm Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Emerging trends like changes in client expectations, supplier strategies, and competitive dynamics. AI and advanced software innovations with tailored solutions for service lines like tax, audit, advisory, and niche industries. Next-gen automation tools, including the role of machine learning, RPA, and advanced analytics in streamlining operations. Optimal technology stacks to enhance firm productivity, efficiency, and profitability. Cybersecurity advancements. Proactive approaches to safeguarding client and firm data.
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.
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.
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.
Preparing and Reviewing Workpapers - Essential Tips for Avoiding Deficient Audit and Other Attest Engagements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
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. Understanding the quality control standards and guidance related to a CPA firm's responsibilities for its system of quality control. Explain the importance of establishing, applying, and monitoring quality control policies and procedures related to audit documentation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Common Deficiencies in Employee Benefit Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
EBP. Auditing.
SAS 145: Modern Risk-Based Auditing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introducing SAS 145. Revisiting audit risk. Risk assessment in the SAS 145 Era. Analyzing SAS 145. Documentation requirements.
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
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.
Benford's Law and Other Digital Analysis Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Benford's Law. Digital analysis. Data analytics.
The Art of the Interview WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Identify inconsistencies and uncover financial misconduct. Use psychological and behavioral cues to detect deception. Build rapport to elicit key details from interview subjects. Adapt questioning techniques to different personalities and contexts.
Forensic Data Analytics Supercourse for Fraud Prevention and Detection WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Forensic data analytics. Fraud prevention and detection. Data validation and methodologies. COSO's Fraud Risk Management Guide principles. Innovations in anti-fraud technology.
2025 Annual Update for Not-for-Profit Accountants & Auditors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
Not for profit. Auditing and accounting.
Measuring Audit Risks WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
The planning process. When it starts and when it ends. Determining the audit objectives. The importance of the nature, timing, and extent of the audit process. The importance of professional skepticism. The preliminary engagement activities. Documentation of audit risk. Determining materiality.
How to Get a Better Return on Yellow Book and Single Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Audit Concepts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Discover the fundamental differences in the auditor's responsibilities between financial statement audits performed in accordance with the SASs and Yellow Book. Understand risk assessment factors above those associated with a financial statement audit only. Learn what must be done beyond the financial statement audit in order to issue required Yellow Book and Single Audit reports on internal controls and compliance. Master designing, performing and documenting effective and efficient tests of compliance requirements. Practice identifying, documenting and communicating the impact of internal control deficiencies and compliance audit findings to the client. Common peer review deficiencies.