CPE & Event Catalog
Estate Planning Strategies: Advanced Techniques and Tools WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Legislative and regulatory changes in estate and gift taxation. Wealth transfer strategies under the new administration. Charitable deduction planning and compliance requirements. Advanced estate planning tools, including split-interest trusts. Using closely held stock for charitable contributions. Generation-skipping transfer tax planning. Strategic use of life insurance in estate planning.
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.
Getting Ahead: The Art of Marketing for CPAs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Challenges of marketing CPA firms. Developing marketing strategy. Elements of a marketing plan. Example: CPA firm marketing plan. Marketing regulatory/AICPA issues. Picking the right marketing channels. Marketing channel statistical analysis. Developing marketing metrics.
Leveraging ChatGPT for Innovative Business Advisory Services WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to ChatGPT and its applications in the business advisory context. In-depth exploration of enterprise evaluation methodologies like SWOT, PESTLE, BCG Matrix, McKinsey 7S Model, Ansoff Matrix, etc. Practical case studies demonstrating application of ChatGPT in accounting business analysis. Key challenges faced by accounting firms and how ChatGPT can help overcome these. Best practices for implementing AI tools in the accounting sector. Future opportunities and trends in AI-enhanced business advisory services.
Synchronize Your Files to the Cloud with SharePoint -Updated WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of the OneDrive Sync app functionality. Step-by-step review and demonstration of how to deploy this app. Installing the Sync app on your local devices. Configuring the files and folders to synchronize toy your local device. Manage the locally stored files. Best practice tips for using the Sync app and avoiding common mistakes.
Tax Aspects of Stock Investing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Active and passive investing. Dividend-paying stocks, value stocks, and the net investment income tax. Favorable capital gain strategies and the netting process. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs), stock options, and straddles.
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).
Statement of Cash Flows: Preparation and Analysis Workshop WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Major provisions of GAAP Codification Topic No. 230. Statement classification issues. Reporting operating cash flows: Direct and indirect methods. Preparing the statement: Workpaper techniques. Useful cash flow ratios. Bankruptcy prediction using the statement of cash flows.
Top 10 Things to Know About Estate Taxation & Planning WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The Numbers: Exemptions, exclusions and discounts. Portability and step-up in basis. Asset valuation. Deductions: Marital, charitable, transmission and administration. Retirement plan assets, annuities and life insurance. Trust funding and administration.
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.
K2's AI - Security And Privacy Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Major provisions of security and privacy policies. Key risks associated with using commercial AI tools. Steps to take to mitigate AI security and privacy risks.
Cash Conversion Cycle: Tool and Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding the timing elements of your day's working capital. The impact of inventory on the Cash Conversion Cycle. How vendors and customers can help your cash conversion cycle. Planning and forecasting for a healthy cash flow. Assorted management tips to control the Cash Conversion Cycle.
Inventory Accounting GAAP, Software and Recognizing Variances WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Inventory accounting. GAAP. Methods for dealing with variances.
2025 Governmental GAAP Update: Navigating GASB Standards WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
New GASB standards: GASB 100. Accounting changes and error corrections. GASB 101. Compensated Absences. Practical case studies.
Current Fraud Trends - Nonprofit and Government Entities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Best practices for fraud prevention and detection. Common fraud schemes in nonprofit and government entities.
Managing Your Money in Retirement WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Social Security. Retirement. Asset allocation.
Partnership & S Corporations: How to Calculate Basis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Calculation of basis when the entity is formed, including the impact of contributed property. How to calculate partnership tax basis capital accounts. Clarifies the how partnerships and S corporations debt impacts tax basis. Discusses how distributions affect basis. Explains how basis is impacted by sale and/or liquidation of the partnership or S-corporation interest. Discusses how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting. Comprehensive examples to illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process.