CPE & Event Catalog
CORE Series: Going Public: Practical Lessons from the IPO Journey WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The transition from a private to a public company environment.
You’ve Got This: An Introduction to Yellow Book and Single Audits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
What’s included (and excluded) in a Yellow Book audit. Key qualification, performance, and reporting standards under the Yellow Book. How single audits differ from financial statement audits, plus core concepts like the SEFA, major program determination, and findings reporting. Fundamentals of testing internal controls over compliance and performing compliance testing.
Estate Planning Strategies Using Irrevocable Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
6.0 Credits
The gift, estate, and income tax treatment of irrevocable trusts. The benefits and risks of spousal lifetime access trusts. Planning with Grantor Retained Interest Trusts and Qualified Personal Residence Trusts. When to use life insurance trusts and dynasty trusts. The effectiveness of domestic asset protection trusts.
Accounting Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The elements of fraud and the Fraud Triangle Theory. Types of fraud with a focus on management fraud. Best practices in fraud detection and deterrence.
Estate Planning: A Comprehensive Overview WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Intestate succession and probate administration. Holding title to assets. Lifetime asset transfers and testamentary asset transfer planning. Structures to avoid or minimize transfer taxes. Living trusts, including A-B and A-B-C, life insurance trusts, terminating irrevocable trusts, use of trust protectors, trust administration during incapacity and post-mortem.
Internal and External Fraud: Understanding It and Working to Control It WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Understanding why internal fraud occurs. Fraudulent acts initiated by outside organizations. Policies, procedures and control measures designed to fight fraud. Steps that verify anti-fraud activities are working.
Preparation, Compilation and Review Services WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
All recently issued SSARS standards. Financial reporting frameworks. Distinguishing special purpose frameworks from GAAP. CPAs reporting on financial statements. Financial statement disclosures. Recently issued ethics standards. Peer review deficiencies .
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.
Case Studies in Accounting Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Major financial statement frauds, including revenue recognition, estimates, earnings management and cut-off fraud. Major misappropriation of asset fraud schemes, including skimming, larceny, and additional schemes that occur within payments processing. Review of recent cases involving the same common fraud schemes that have always existed.
Real Estate Taxation Full Circle WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Personal residence and vacation home advantages and traps. Depreciation, credits, passive losses, qualified business income under the One Big Beautiful Bill. Installment sales. Involuntary conversions. Like-kind exchanges. Real estate investment trusts.
Combating Internal Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
This session is taught via the use of case studies adapted from real world examples. These studies are designed to show participants some of the negative effects of the rampant fraud taking place in the business world today. The topics discussed in this session include: Understanding why internal fraud occurs. Policies, procedures, and control measures designed to fight fraud.
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.
Tax Issues for Real Estate and Homebuilding WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Discussion of appropriate entity selection and small taxpayer status. Walkthrough of costing methods and compliance issues under IRC 263A. Analysis of IRC 461 related to economic performance. Illustrative examples and analysis. Sample computations for homebuilder unit costing. Recent IRC 263A challenges by the IRS. Update of related cases and issues, including recent tax reform.
ABC Trust Planning and the Portable Exclusion WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The interplay of the estate, gift, generation-skipping, and income taxes. Claiming and protecting the portable exclusion. Marital deduction planning: rules for and reasons to use Survivor's, QTIP, and Qualified Domestic Trusts. Bypass trusts. Survivor's and QTIP trusts planning. Qualified Domestic Trust planning. What planners should tell their wealthy clients after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Financial Reporting Fundamentals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Financial statements, disclosures and presentations. Review of two Annual Financial Reports: IFRS and U.S. GAAP.
2027 Washington Ethics and New Developments with Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Washington ethics rules and recent changes. New developments and best practices for CPAs in public accounting and industry. Case studies and Washington administration and enforcement.
WSCPA Town Hall - May WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Issues shaping the accounting profession and the communities CPAs serve.
Artificial Intelligence for Accounting and Finance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Frameworks for incident response. Case studies of notable AI-powered cybersecurity incidents. Practical tips for financial professionals to manage crises. Post-incident analysis and lessons learned. Building organizational resilience through continuous improvement.
CORE Series: Small Firm Strategy: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What to do Differently WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Managing growth and capacity. Refining service offerings. Navigating risk.
Fraud Case Studies: Schemes and Controls WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Recent fraud cases. Common fraud schemes perpetrated by those within and outside victim organizations. Consider the lessons learned. Best practices to further our fraud prevention.