CPE & Event Catalog
Mastering Communication Skills for the CPA WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Pervasive best practices for effective communication. Specific strategies for written materials. Unique considerations for verbal presentations. The importance of recursive revision. Tips for success. Pitfalls to avoid.
Fraud and Financial Distortion: What May Be Hiding Behind the Numbers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Translating financial statements back into operational reality. The operational plausibility test. Analytical metrics that reveal hidden distortion. Common operational red flags. Case studies. Practical questions every financial professional should ask.
Leveraging ChatGPT for Innovative Business Advisory Services WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The 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.
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.
Best-In-Class Recruiting Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Recruiting and retention. Talent management. Employee engagement.
Fundamentals of Form 1040 -- Business WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Self-employment and business income taxation. Reporting income from pass-through entities. Application of Form 7217 for capital construction funds. Best practices for self-employed clients and small business owners. Key deductions and credits for business owners. Avoiding common IRS audit triggers related to business income reporting. Legislative updates impacting business income taxation in the current year.
Grow Your Business from Within – Striking the Right Balance Between a CPA Firm's Financial, People, and Client Success WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
How to become a value-added business advisor to successfully grow the firm from within. Best practices for leveraging engagement team discussions to better understand the entity and its environment, identify risk of material misstatement, and provide value-added business advice in audit and other attest services. Critical traits of a thinking auditor, tips for stretching yourself beyond the basics. Tips for value pricing and other ways to improve a CPA firm's financial success. Managing change and promoting creative thinking .Choosing between varying levels of client service.
Be the Sun, Not the Salt, featuring Harry Cohen and John Daly WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
What is the Heliotropic Effect? Be the Six Sun Pearls.
Performance Management - Hiring to Retiring WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Employee engagement. Recruiting and staffing. Talent management. Employee relations.
ChatGPT and Advanced Accounting Research WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Comparing Google vs. AI methodologies. AI ecosystems and specialized models for accounting applications. Advanced prompt engineering techniques for financial and tax research. AI powered search engines and deep research platforms for accounting professionals AI as an ideation and thinking partner for complex accounting problems Specialized accounting research tools and AI superstores. Persona priming and P&P stacking methodologies for optimal AI interactions. Ethical considerations and limitations of AI in accounting research. The compliance chess effect: AI's impact on tax planning and regulatory response. AI driven automation for regulatory updates and compliance monitoring.
Proper Financial Accounting for S Corporations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Deferred tax accounting for S Corporations. S elections and terminations. Financial accounting for capital stock and retained earnings. S corporation shareholders' equity. Tax vs financial accounting for Accumulated Adjustments Account. Financial accounting for loans to and from S shareholders.
Accounting and Reporting Long-Term Debt WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Debt terms that impact classification of debt, such as due on demand and subjective acceleration clauses, and more. Proper treatment of short-term obligations that are expected to refinance within the next 12 months. Revolving credit agreements, where short-term debt is automatically replaced with other short-term debt for a specified period of time. Differentiating between debt modifications and troubled debt restructuring. Debt covenant compliance special considerations, including the proper form of waiver of rights to call the debt for violation.
Seeing Beyond the Numbers: Analysis for CFOs and Controllers WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Purpose of financial statement analysis. Comparing actuals vs. expectations and benchmarking. Ratio analysis. Analysis of statement of cash flows. Other uses of ratios.
Better Forecasts: Be a Better Predictor WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Why an open mind and the ability to doubt helps make great predictions. Why it is better to be a fox than a hedgehog. How non-conformists change the world. How to focus on what matters. How to learn from the past without hindsight bias.
Supporting Mental Wellness to Thrive in Work and Life WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding mental wellness. Practical strategies for balanced living. Recognizing and managing support needs.
Getting SASsy - A Look at Recent Auditing Standards WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Risk assessment. Quality management standards. Predecessor auditor inquiries. Group financial statement audits.
Audit Skills for Beginners WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Professional skepticism. Audit documentation basics. The audit risk model. Internal control fundamentals.
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.
Preparing and Reviewing Workpapers for Higher Quality Audits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The primary purpose of workpaper documentation, and minimum documentation requirements for workpaper preparers. 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.
CPA to CFO: Essential Competencies for Finance Leaders WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Top competencies hiring executives seek in CFO candidates based on survey of 320-plus CEOs and recruiters. Critical thinking frameworks and strategy creation techniques for financial leadership. Forward-looking financial skills including capital management, forecasting, and funding strategies. Industry-specific requirements for high-growth companies and nonprofit organizations. Practical career development strategies to build CFO-ready competencies.