CPE & Event Catalog
Tactical Budgeting – Moving Beyond Traditional Budgets to Manage Performance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The real purpose of budgeting in modern organizations. Common budgeting problems and process breakdowns. Linking budgets to income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows. Output metrics and what really causes work. Top-down, bottom-up, and hybrid budgeting approaches. Flexible budgeting using volume-based and unit metrics. Benchmarking to reduce politics and improve insight. Using budgets to build value, not just limit spending.
Power Skills: Professionalism and Client Interactions WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Best practices when communicating with the client. Complicated scenarios for practice.
How AI Is Automating Internal Control WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An explanation of AI. Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
CORE Series: Getting Unstuck from Sticky Situations WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Emerging malpractice risks. Navigating difficult client dynamics, Remain compliant with professional standards.
Strategic CFO – Strategic Financial Communications WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Financial literacy versus math literacy. Common financial terms that confuse non-accountants. Simplifying financial language without dumbing it down. Building narratives and stories around financial data. Using visuals and graphics effectively. Communicating strategy, risk, and performance together.
ChatGPT and IRS Taxation Law Research WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Utilizing ChatGPT for IRS tax law research. Using IRS prompt templates. ChatGPT in action. Exploring IRS tax laws. Error prevention and correction in tax law research. AI's evolving role in taxation and accounting.
Creating A Culture of Trust WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Culture. Trust.
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.
Supervised AI Agents as Public CPA Audit Team Members WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Independent execution. Audit-ready outputs. Workflow integration. Guardrails and governance. Human supervision. Practical applications.
IRS Penalties and Abatements WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Various types of penalties. Rules on waiver of penalties and interests. Various forms and procedures for requesting relief. First Time Abatement. How an individual taxpayer qualifies for Reasonable Cause abatement. Procedures for requesting refund of paid penalties. Available administrative options.
Advanced IT Audit and Real-World Testing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Information technology general controls testing. Audit execution. Workpapers.
Internal Audit in The Future WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Internal audit. IIA standards. Emerging risks. Technology.
Agentic AI for CPAs: Automate Workflows with Intelligence WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to Agentic AI concepts and terminology. Case studies for using AI agents in accounting, finance, and tax services. Step by step demonstration of creating and deploying an AI agent. Introduction to Microsoft Copilot Studio agent builder. Developing your AI agent deployment strategy.
AI In Audit and Financial Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.6 Credits
Artificial intelligence. Audit. Financial reporting.
Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (Section 199A) – The Ins and Outs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of calculating the combined qualified business income amount. Determine what trade or businesses under Section 162 are eligible for the QBI deduction. Discuss how the 20% QBI deduction is subject to a wage and capital limitation and SSTB income is phased-out for taxpayers with taxable income above the inflation adjusted threshold amounts. Walk through the simplified QBI Form 8995 and detailed Form 8995-A and related schedules. Determine what wages and unadjusted basis immediately after acquisition (UBIA) are for those subject to the wage and capital limitations. Look at what the definition of QBI is and what items are effectively connected with that trade or business. Review the aggregation rules for the QBI computation and both the entity and individual level. Walk through the reporting responsibilities of partnerships and S corporations to their owners on the Schedule K-1s. Explain how the modifications to the net operating losses (NOLs) and Section 461(l) excess business loss limitations affect the QBI computation.
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.