CPE & Event Catalog
AI-Enhanced Business Consulting for CPAs: Strategies and Tools WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Business consulting. Types of management services. Identification of client needs. Managing client expectations. Creating value for clients. Techniques for effective consulting. Application of AI. Professional standards application.
Develop Your Emotional Intelligence to Be More Successful in Life and Leadership WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Emotional intelligence (EQ) in leadership. Building stronger workplace relationships. Creating and leading high-performing teams. Navigating change with emotional intelligence.
Real Estate Professionals: Passive Activity, Sec. 199A and Investment Income Tax WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definition, pros and cons of being a real estate professional. Integration of the real estate professional rules with reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E. Real estate professionals and indirectly owned entity's reporting on Form 1040. How real estate business is interpreted under the Section 199A rules and how it integrates with the passive activity rules. Real estate professionals and Form 8582. How to make the grouping election for passive activities and the flow-through deduction.
Multiply Your Time: Tame Your To-Do List and Fight Distractions So You Can Get The Right Things Done WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Personal productivity. Optimizing performance. Reducing stress. Managing time. Improving results. Personal development. Self-leadership. Self-awareness
Partnership Checkup: Tax Issues and Forms Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Clarify the importance of partnership capital accounts and partnerships debt on partner's tax basis. Impact of contributed property. Explain the importance of shareholder loans to the entity. Discuss how basis is impacted by distributions of corporation property and the sale/or liquidation of the S corporation interest. Comprehensive examples illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process. Discusses how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting. How to get from the Schedule K-1 information to the basis calculations.
How AI Fits into the Accounting World WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
An overview of AI constructs. How artificial intelligence is being used by accountants today. Accounting-centric AI developments on the horizon.
Leverage PowerBI.com to Create Data Analysis for Others WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Tour of the PowerBI.com interface. PowerBI.com concepts. Connecting to data. Visualizations and dashboards. Q&A feature. Sharing datasets, reports, dashboards. Creating apps.
Execute Your Strategy: Turn Planning into Results or Destroy it and Start Over Again WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The strategy-execution gap . Why should financial planning lead strategy? Evaluating the lifespan and relevance of your strategic plan. Building your strategy to include risk management. Building an adaptive, finance-focused strategic approach. What we should learn from the rise and fall of major companies. How to align financial metrics with strategy.
Best Practices in Obligating Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Finance. IFR. SLFRF.
AI and Accounting in Manufacturing WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Intelligent automation and dark factories. Predictive maintenance and real-time cost tracking. AI enabled financial reporting and dashboards. Continuous auditing and anomaly detection. Tax compliance automation and transfer pricing AI. Data governance and cybersecurity in financial systems. Workforce reskilling and AI augmented financial roles.
Business Tax Update: OBBA and Recent Developments WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent legislation impacting business taxpayers. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Extenders legislation update. Meals and entertainment expense reporting. Partnership and S corporation update. Income and deductions.
Fraud Busters: Controls to Prevent and Detect Fraud WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fraud motivators. Revisiting the basics of controls. Entity wide controls and how they can assist in fraud deterrence. Specific fraud types and the controls that could prevent and detect them
How to Develop Your System of Quality Management Using the AICPA Practice Aids WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Overview of Quality Management standards. Scope of SQMS 1. Components of quality management. Changes from prior standards. AICPA practice aids. Required documentation. Risk assessment process. Final documentation development.
Estates and Trusts: Executor Duties and Tax Responsibilities in Estate Administration WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Legal and fiduciary responsibilities of the executor or personal representative. Overview of the estate administration process from appointment through final distribution. Filing requirements for Form 1040, Form 1041, and Form 706.Income in respect of a decedent (IRD) and basis adjustments. Estate asset identification, valuation, and management. Creditor claims, debt settlement, and distribution procedures. Obtaining an EIN for the estate and IRS notice procedures. RS audit risks related to estate administration. Executor liability considerations and risk management. Estate accounting records, documentation, and communication with beneficiaries.
Business Partnerships: Managing Supplier Relationships WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Overview of supplier contracts. Case studies of successful and not-so-successful supplier relationships. Risk potentials.
Entertainment, Meals and Travel Expenses: Review and Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definition of what qualifies as an entertainment expense. Strategies to deduct business entertainment expenses. Deductibility of meals. Situations not subject to the 50% meals and entertainment reduction. How to handle automobile issues related to employer-provided parking. Proper accounting for deductible vs. non-deductible expenditures. The four steps to analyze business expenses. The latest federal legislation, cases and rulings.
Retirement Advising: Accumulation and Decumulation Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The downside of traditional retirement asset accumulation strategies. Threats to a successful retirement. Holistic retirement planning: how personal goals integrate with tax, estate, risk, and investment management principles. Matching investment assets with the appropriate retirement plan and distribution strategy. Review recent legislation, including the changes for seniors in the One Big Beautiful Bill and the provisions of the SECURE Acts, and how they will impact retirement planning.
Behavioral Finance Biases WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Overview of biases and standard of living risk. Overview of difference between emotional and processing biases. Examples of various real life examples and case studies.
How AI Fits into the Accounting World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
An overview of AI constructs. How artificial intelligence is being used by accountants today. Accounting-centric AI developments on the horizon.
Accounting for the Gig Economy WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Characteristics unique to the gig economy. Independent contractor and employee classification considerations. Recordkeeping considerations for independent contractors. Accounting and reporting issues for gig economy participants. Audit and attestation for clients who participate in the gig economy. Tax and regulatory considerations. The CPA as a trusted advisor for independent contractors.