CPE & Event Catalog
Shorten Month-End - Closing Best Practices WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Trends in financial statement closings . Review and discuss information systems headaches that slow you down. Work through examples of close cycle time killers and how to resolve them. Get inventory and cost of sales under control. Identify the improvement projects that will yield the biggest benefit.
Create Measures in Power BI that Define Your Metrics WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Introduction to DAX. Advanced DAX formulas. Time Intelligence in DAX. Measures with DAX. Using PivotTables for measure validation.
Fraud and Embezzlement: Case Studies from the Trenches WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How organizations can find themselves defrauded due to lax oversight and weak internal controls. How the existence of the "trusted advisor" creates situations where CPAs can drop their professional skepticism. Illustrations of the issues companies should look for in preventing fraud and embezzlement.
Leveraging Analytical Procedures to the Fullest on Audits - Case Studies in Strengthening Audit Evidence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How well-designed analytic procedures enhance audit quality. Elements of strong analytic procedures. Selecting the proper analytic and altering the strength for the intended purpose. Evaluating the data used in generating expectations. Improving documentation, including evaluating sufficiency and appropriateness of the audit evidence obtained.
Cryptocurrencies for the CFO: Explaining Blockchain WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What are digital assets? Understanding cryptocurrencies. Understanding blockchain. NFT's (Non-Fungible Tokens), their role and impact. Explaining the crypto language.
State Tax Nexus: Frequently Awkward Questions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Frequently asked questions about income tax and sales tax nexus. New developments . Key factors in reviewing potential nexus consequences. Nexus road trip to eight large states. Tax impacts of remote work. Free, multistate resources.
Key Tax Issues Facing Business and Industry WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Update and review of recent and key tax developments impacting business and industry. The all-important impending expiration/extension/renewal of the TCJA. Other recent legislative, judicial, and IRS developments impacting business taxpayers. Current status of Research and Experimentation costs and Interest Expense Limitation. Phaseout of Bonus Depreciation and MACRS issues. Travel and entertainment expense rules. Independent contractor vs. employee.
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. 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.
Partnership Essentials: Review and Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Recent legislative, rules and tax developments impacting partnerships and their partners. Transfer of partnership interests. TCJA Section 461(l) Excess Business Losses and Section 163(j) Business Interest Expense. Importance of capital accounts. Form 1065, Schedules K-1 and M-2. Schedules K-2 and K-3 update. Reporting partner capital accounts. Effect of the Ceiling Rule. Alternative and remedial methods. Effect on financial capital accounts. Tax basis capital accounts.
Neurodiversity and Productivity. Include More Minds to Make the Most of Your Time WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Neurodiversity. Productivity. Leadership. Management. Communication. Inclusion. Culture. Empathy.
2026-27 Not-for-Profit GAAP Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Recently issued Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Updates impacting NFP financial reporting, along with standard-setting projects currently in the FASB pipeline. The International Non-Profit Accounting Standards - the first comprehensive global accounting framework designed specifically for non-profit organizations, launched in October 2025.
Cost of Capital: What It Is and How to Use It WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Find your organization's cost of debt. Calculate the cost of equity. Interpret your cost of capital. Properly use the cost of capital to make decisions. Avoid common cost of capital mistakes.
Performance Auditing Made Easy WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
Performance audit standards. Performance audit types. Performance audit objectives.
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
Supervised AI Agents as Internal 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.
Advanced ChatGPT for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to ChatGPT and its applications in accounting. Custom instructions for persistent context in financial conversations. Analyzing financial statements and news releases using ChatGPT. Exploring business opportunities through hyper-local and sectoral analysis. Advanced data analysis for financial comparisons and capital asset audits. Image analysis for asset, space, and user interface design. Voice interaction with ChatGPT for enhanced user experience and accessibility.
Financial Statement Presentation and Disclosure WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
U.S. GAAP and special purpose frameworks. Form and content of financial statements. Income statements. Statements of cash flows. Retained earnings and owners' equity statements. Comprehensive income. Supplementary information. Comparative vs. single-period financial statements. Sufficiency of disclosures. Illustrative disclosures frequently encountered in small-to-medium reporting entities. Industry-specific nuances.
The Successful Family Business WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Business management.
Sustaining Wellness: Essential Skills for Preventing Burnout in High-Stress Professions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Understanding burnout and its warning signs. Stress reduction techniques. Building resilience. Boundary-setting. Energy management. Physical wellness strategies. Personalized action plan development.
Depreciating and Expensing Business Assets WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation, rules and developments related to capitalization and depreciation. Qualified improvement property. Section 179. Section 168(k) 100% bonus deduction. Depreciation of automobiles. Rev. Proc. 87-57 and MACRS. ADS depreciation for electing farm and real estate business. Update on recent developments.