CPE & Event Catalog
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The shift to predictive accounting for decision making, planning, and budgeting. Problems with traditional annual budget processes. Develop a driver-based operational budget based on resource capacity planning. Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable. Create closed loop capacity plans. Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts. Integrating enterprise risk management with management accounting. Applying target costing for cost estimating.
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.
K2's Taking Another Look At PDFs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding the Portable Document Format. Identifying tools you can use to work with PDFs. Collaborating using PDFs. Creating, distributing, and collecting fillable PDF forms. Using PDFs to enhance security.
Dashboard and Report Design Principles Using Excel WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Principles of visual design for dashboards and reports. Chart design for rapid understanding. Table design for efficiency. Effective use of commentary. Strategic layout techniques. Trend analysis methods. Developing organizational design standards. Excel application techniques. Critical review skills. Best practices for data presentation.
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.
Lease Implementation for Private Entities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Analysis of requirements for lease accounting under ASC 842, including detailed schedules showing journal entries and computations. Analysis of internal control and fraud risk aspects. Identification of high-risk areas of lease accounting and reporting. Suggested audit and review procedures for identified risks.
Mergers & Acquisitions Part 2: Financial Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Identifying the acquirer and the acquisition date. Recognition and measurement issues on the acquisition date. Intangible assets. Deferred income taxes. Stock options.
Schedule K-1: What is it & What Do I Do with It? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of Schedule K-1 for partnerships, S corporations, and estates. Reporting Schedule K-1 information on Form 1040. Basis limitations, loss limitations, and material participation rules. Qualified Business Income Deduction and Schedule K-1 integration. Case studies highlighting real-world application of Schedule K-1 reporting. Proposed changes to Schedules K-2 and K-3 for 2021 and beyond. Best practices for avoiding errors and ensuring compliance.
State Tax Nexus: Frequently Awkward Questions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Frequently asked questions about income tax and sales tax nexus. New developments. Key factors in reviewing potential nexus consequences. Nexus road trip to eight large states. Tax impacts of remote work. Free, multistate resources.
Drive Results with Metrics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Performance metrics. Budgets.
Money Laundering 101 for CPAs WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The theory of money laundering. Common money laundering statutes. Examples from court cases of money laundering statutes. Common occurrences with CPAs. Possible money laundering transactions. Applying the money laundering statutes in real life scenarios.
The Bookkeeper Goes to Prison WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Career choices. Judicial proceedings. Mitigation strategies. Creating tools to help make better decisions. Atonement and reconciliation.
ChatGPT and Advanced Policy Manual Development for ACCTs WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fundamentals of accounting policy manuals in traditional and AI contexts. The PRIME Method framework for AI-assisted policy development. Strategic implementation of AI tools including ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot. Internal control and risk management policy creation. AI and generative AI usage policies for accounting firms. Sustainability and ESG reporting policy frameworks. Predictive analytics and forecasting policy development. Regulatory compliance considerations in AI-generated policies.
Everything You Need to Know About the Pass-Through Entity Rules: IRC Section 199A The Code and Regulations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Understanding the term QBI. Understanding the terms SSTB. Understanding the term QTB. Calculate the 199A deduction Understanding the phaseouts. Understanding aggregation. Rental property as a trade or business. Identify how your clients can maximize the deduction. Planning ideas. Understand the Section 199A Regulations.
K2's Business Intelligence, Featuring Microsoft's Power BI Tools WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The importance of Business Intelligence in today's business climate. Differentiating between Power BI licensing options. A hands-on approach to creating effective Power BI reports and dashboards.
Defining Where and Why Internal Controls are Needed WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Control design basics. Areas or segments of an enterprise to control. Controls to reduce risk. Controls to drive operations.
K2's Next Level Home Networking WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Explanation of common network services such as file sharing, VPN's, media servers, and network isolation using multiple SSIDs. Hardware options and examples of solutions for every budget. Tips and tricks for rebuilding your home network to meet your needs today and into the future.
Planning in an Uncertain World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Why great predictions are not intuitive but the result of critical thinking, gathering information and updating predictions when needed. How to separate correlation from causation. How to recognize and overcome bias. Who is Thomas Bayes and why he matters.
Change Management: Your Leadership Role for Aligning Profits & Culture WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Why professional agility is critical, and how to develop it. Foundational models for change management. Proven strategies to prepare for change as individuals, teams & organizations. Implementing change: A how-to look. Leading through change for success of all involved.
Overcome Your Obstacles to Abundance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How to know your specific obstacles to becoming rich. Why people use poor marketing and investment strategies, and how to overcome such limitations. The most effective marketing methods, and how to implement them. The power of being super motivated, and 3 methods to keep you motivated long term towards your goals. Having a vision for your business and life that will keep you on the right track.