CPE & Event Catalog

Key features for choosing a retirement plan for a small business. Key questions an advisor must ask a small business owner to help determine suitability for a retirement plan. Key questions an advisor must ask a small business owner to help ensure compliance with a SEP IRA or a SIMPLE IRA. How SEP and SIMPLE IRAs benefit the small business owner. How SEP and SIMPLE IRAs benefit employees of small businesses. The tax benefits that help to offset the cost of employer contributions. How to determine which business is eligible to adopt a SEP or SIMPLE IRA. How to determine which employees must be covered.

Critical post-mortem estate planning decisions and tax compliance requirements.

Summary of key SEC regulations. Securities Act of 1933. Key sections. Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Regulation S-X. Regulation S-K. Regular fair disclosure. Sarbanes Oxley Act.

Roth early distribution example. IRA rollovers. RMD and QCD examples. Net unrealized appreciation example. Form 1099-R.

Lease components. Asset and liability recognition. Lease recognition topics. Variable lease payments. Lease modifications. Elections. Sale and leaseback transactions. Lease presentation. Lease disclosures.

Critical disclosures related to liquidity, accounting uncertainty, and going concern for nonprofits.

Ensuring that your firm has the capacity to grow and expand.

Basic marital tax matters. Transfers incident to divorce. Spousal and child support. Avoiding tax on debt cancellation and foreclosure. Repossession. Bad debts.

Filing status. Advantages and disadvantages of a separate return. Head of household. Children of divorced parents. Transfers incident to divorce. Alimony and child support. Debt cancellation and foreclosure. Basis reduction. Both installment and non-installment method sales.

Differentiating between managing and leading, while highlighting the importance of each. Assessing your own natural management and leadership style. Adapting management and leadership styles to the specific circumstances. Becoming a catalyst for positive change. Overcoming barriers to successfully managing and leading. Successfully engaging in difficult conversations to minimize performance issues and conflict.

How to identify and mitigate shifting fraud risks in any entity.

The intersection of legal and financial reporting. Types of legal risks. Why legal risks matter for financial reporting. Key concepts in legal risk reporting. Collaboration between legal counsel and accountants. Legal counsel vs. Accountants. Collaboration best practices. Handling conflicting opinions. Consideration of outside counsel.

Marketing research. Consumer and the market. Marketing costs. Marketing strategies. Product as a variable, and more.

Forecast the important outcomes of each alternative based on an analysis of available data. Making effective and timely decisions, even when data is limited, or solutions produce unpleasant consequences. Facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner. Consider and respond appropriately to the needs, feelings, and capabilities of different people in different situations.

Entities and title. Income splitting. Elimination, and more.

10 mistakes that decrease your professionalism. Make a great first impression virtually. Virtual meetings. Persuasive presentation.

Financial statement analysis and communicating insights to financial statement users. Improving audit quality through strong analytic procedures, including identifying and responding to risk of material misstatement. Developing plausible expectations for comparison to actual financial results. Detecting earnings management and other risks through analytic procedures.

Medical costs. Charitable contributions. Casualty and theft losses suspended.

Acquisition strategies. Acquisition process. Regulatory approval. Exit planning, and more.

The supervisor's role and making decisions. Objectives, supervisory planning and control. Organizing, delegating, and communicating. Motivation and employee development. Building team effort, counseling and appraising. Handling absenteeism, tardiness and conflict, and more.