CPE & Event Catalog
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.
Tax Procedure WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Filing a tax return. IRS audit. IRS Appeals. Collections and litigation at courts of original jurisdiction.
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.
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 Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Accounting standards updates. Auditing and accounting.
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.
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.
Deep Dive into Quality Management WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
SQMS 1 and 2. Auditing.
Audits of 401(k) Plans: New Developments and Critical Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Proper planning of benefit plan audit engagements and developing audit strategy while improving overall efficiency. Common pitfalls in planning and detailed audit procedures. Changes affecting 401(k) plans, including recently issued SASs. Common mistakes as noted in peer reviews and DOL inspections.
Comprehensive Partnership Taxation Form 1065 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Special and targeted allocations. Proper calculation of outside and inside tax basis. Tax consequences of distributions including the impact of hot assets. Transfer of partnership interests. Issuance of partnership interests to service partners.
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.
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.
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.
ChatGPT and Complex Financial and HR Conversations WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Budget allocation and negotiation techniques. Compensation and benefits structuring. Managing financial performance and layoffs. Financial and HR aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Regulatory compliance and ethical financial practices. Strategies for financial crisis management. Effective performance management systems.
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.
Independence for Auditors - AICPA, PCAOB, GAO & DOL WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Auditing. AICPA, GAO, DOL and PCAOB.
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.
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.
2025 Not-for-Profit Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Yellow book. Auditing. Accounting.