CPE & Event Catalog
Overcome Your Obstacles to Abundance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How to know your specific obstacles to becoming rich. Why people use poor marketing and investment strategies, and how to overcome such limitations. The most effective marketing methods, and how to implement them. The power of being super motivated, and three methods to keep you motivated long term towards your goals. Having a vision for your business and life that will keep you on the right track.
Making Effective Decisions When You Can’t Get Everything You Want WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Decision-making fundamentals. Cost-volume-profit refresher. Optimization analysis. Constraint mitigation strategies. Coping with incomplete information. Solver and other Excel capabilities. Qualitative considerations.
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.
Forensic Accounting: When The Office Is A Crime Scene WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
A step-by-step process from the initial client phone call to you writing a report of your findings for any civil or criminal actions that may be pursued. How to advise your client in approaching an allegation of embezzlement. What pitfalls may arise in finding the truth. The best practices to ensure that the evidence is preserved properly for potential civil or criminal actions.
SSARS Essentials: Best Practices for Review, Compilation, and Preparation Engagements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The SSARS landscape. Review engagements. Compilation engagements. Preparation engagements. Selecting from the menu of SSARS engagements. AICPA quality management standards. Independence and other ethical considerations. Considerations when changing the level of service. Pitfalls to avoid. Best practices to adopt.
Accounting for Revenue under ASC 606 and Final PIR Report Findings WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, including recently issued ASUs impacting Topic 606. The FASB’s five-step revenue recognition model, including hands-on examples and illustrations of the guidance. Presentation and disclosure requirements. Lessons learned and best practices for improving business processes related to revenue recognition going forward. Results of the FASB’s Stage 3 Post-Implementation Review report.
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.
How to Build a Custom AI Chatbot and GPT in Plain English WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fundamentals of GPT Builder and AI agent customization techniques. Integration of specialized knowledge bases and domain specific expertise. Security and privacy considerations in AI chatbot deployment. Custom GPT development without coding expertise. Implementation of AI agents for customer support and workflow automation. Multiple bot interactions and content creation strategies. Best practices for maintaining and scaling AI assistants.
Roadmap to Ethical Decision Making WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Provide best practice tips and practical strategies for preserving independence when assisting clients with technical matters. Discuss the principles of professional conduct. Address compliance with professional standards. Use case studies to address circumstances that may create threats to independence.
2026/27 Single Audit Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
2024 Uniform Guidance overhaul. Increase in Single Audit threshold to $1 million. Audit planning and execution impacts. 2025 AICPA GAS/Single Audit Guide - Appendix B updates. Audit efficiency and compliance considerations.
Appreciation Intelligence: The New AI Elevate Culture. Deepen Loyalty. Strengthen Performance. WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Appreciation. Languages of appreciation. Appreciation strategies.
Peeking Behind the Curtain: Exploring IRS Audit Technique Guides WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of ATGs. Best practices for utilizing ATGs. Salient provisions of selected ATGs. Insights auditors may obtain from analytical procedures. Nuances associated with selected industries.
Cutting-Edge Estate and Financial Planning Trends WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The latest legislative changes in estate and financial planning. Expected changes in estate and gift tax exemptions and their impact. Common client errors and risk mitigation strategies. Domicile planning considerations in financial and tax strategy. Charitable giving strategies under new tax rules. Advanced use of split-interest trusts for tax and estate planning. Best practices for IRA distribution planning with new tax implications.
Divorce Concerns: Taxes, Valuation, Finances, Retirement, and Obligations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Divorce and ongoing payment issues dealing with alimony and child support. Documents protecting a client going forward, including pre-nuptials, cohabitation agreements, post-nuptials and many others. Advanced income tax issues, including like-kind exchanges, filing status issues, credits and asset sales. Advanced retirement issues, including dissecting qualified, personal retirement, and nonqualified plans, QDROs, past and defunct plans, and using retirement assets to equalize assets. High-level valuation issues, including closely held business, stock redemptions, partnership redemptions and stock options.
Awesome Business Lessons from the Past: Learn from the Best! WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The six methods to get others to like you. What are twelve ways to win others to your way of thinking? What are the fundamental principles of Henry Ford's success? What are the thirteen steps necessary to plan for success? How to use these principles to move your organization forward.
How to Choose the Right Business Entity for Your Client WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation and developments related to choice of entity. Impact of the Section 199A deduction. Ramifications of the C to S election and the S to C election. Corporate tax rate to individual tax rate comparison examples. Other related topics.
Best-in-Class Internal Controls: Best Practices for Finance Professionals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Define and explore the basic concepts, myths and facts of internal controls. Examine typical control types. Identify why controls fail. Identify a framework to develop the right balance of internal controls. Discuss internal controls in the digital age. Examine the variances and considerations of automated vs. manual controls. Evaluate the concept of IT controls.
Supervision/Management Competencies: An Ethical Approach WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The overview of virtue ethics. Milgram and Zimbardo case studies. Navigating the transition from buddy to boss. Self-awareness and regard for others. Setting standards and analyzing performance. Unconscious bias. Communication skills
Will Your Ethics Be Burned by Burnout? WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Explore the effects of crisis and burnout on ethical decision making. Define the stressors, pressures, and biases that can lead good people to make less than optimal choices. Discuss ways to offset the pressures, ways to reduce stress on ourselves and on our team, and ways to support our teams. Learn how to recognize when an individual or an organization is heading in the wrong direction and how to stop sliding down the slippery slope.
Business Ethics: Cases from the Real World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Why are ethics so complicated? What trade-offs must we make to solve ethical predicaments? What can we do? Should you speak up or be quiet? What do I do when I find myself in an ethical predicament? What are fundamental ethical principles for a businessperson? Is ethics situational? What is the Fraud Triangle? How do we resolve ethical issues?