CPE & Event Catalog
Leases: ASC Topic 842 in Depth WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
FASB ASC 842, Leases. All recently released updates to ASC 842, Leases.
Pension and Profit-Sharing Plan Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Types of documents: advantages and disadvantages, where they fit and plan termination issues. Types of retirement plans. Plan selection and design. Contribution and deduction limits and timing. Reporting and disclosure: Form 5500 and participant communications. Legislative environment. In-plan Roth conversions.
The Art of Marketing for CPAs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Why marketing and self-promotion are so important today. What keeps people from learning this skill, and how to overcome those obstacles. How to get people (your boss, co-workers or clients) to like working with you. How to sell someone on your services in a single minute. How to attract more clients or the attention of your boss in a way that "wows" them. How to get referrals from your clients or glowing reviews from your boss. The 3 communication skills every person needs to master, and why. The 3 principles that really lead to more success in the business world, and how you can use those principles for you company and career.
Smarter Tax Services with AI Tools WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of AI technology and how it works. Identify where AI can be incorporated into tax research, planning, and compliance services. Discover new opportunities to enhance your client advisory tax services with AI tools. Review the market of emerging and AI enhanced tax software tools. Learn about the newest generation of AI enable 1040 source document collection and organizer applications. Review specific use cases for generative AI tools in your tax services.
WSCPA Town Hall - August WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Issues shaping the accounting profession and the communities CPAs serve.
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.
Not Just Your Everyday FASB Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Analysis of relevant GAAP provisions. Reminders regarding the continuing importance of ASC 606 for revenue recognition. Fresh perspectives of lease accounting in the wake of ASC 842 implementation. Overview of U.S. GAAP alternatives for certain entities. Summary of selected, salient standards for today's audit, review, and compilation engagements.
Taxation of Non-fungible Tokens WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
NFT basics. Classification of NFTs. Current Legislative and Policy Environment. Tax implications of creation, sales and exchanges of NFTs.
Creating A Coaching Leadership Style WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
What the coaching leadership style. Coaching leadership style competencies. Solution focused coaching framework. Leadership competency pillars. Historical and current views of coaching. Coaching culture definition and framework. Coaching results. Measuring success of coaching.
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.
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.
Mastering Charitable Remainder Trusts and Form 5227 Compliance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to charitable remainder trusts (CRTs). Types of CRTs and their benefits. Formation and funding of CRTs. Identifying suitable candidates for CRTs. Understanding form 5227. Reporting trust assets and income. Distributions and charitable beneficiaries. Compliance updates and recent changes to form 5227. Best practices for accurate completion and filing.
Corporate Fraud Risk and Investigations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Types of corporate fraud. Introduction to fraud risk. Fraud risk prevention programs. Fraud investigations.
Navigating Mergers and Acquisitions with AI: The Future of Deals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Strategic reasons for mergers and acquisitions. Establishing acquisition principles and target criteria. Business valuation in the M&A process. Structuring the transaction and negotiating the deal. Conducting effective due diligence. Post-transaction integration and deal success.
Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of any new legislation affecting basis computations and distributions and changes to the schedule K-1s. Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect an S shareholder's stock and debt basis and a partner's outside basis and where the items get reported on Federal individual income tax return. The three loss and deduction limitations on the owner's individual income tax return. How cash or non-cash distributions affect the basis calculations and whether or not they are taxable to the owners. Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder's stock in an S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership. What constitutes debt basis for an S corporation shareholder under the final regulations. The tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders and on open account debt. How recourse and non-recourse debt affect a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk.
Shortcuts to Personal and Professional Success WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
What really leads to success in the modern world. Mastering the art of communication. The magic of motivation. Overcoming your fears. What makes people really happy and what doesn't.
Business Tax Update: OBBA and Recent Developments WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent legislation impacting business taxpayers. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Extenders legislation update. Meals and entertainment expense reporting. Partnership and S corporation update. Income and deductions.
Beyond the Basics of SSARS and Nonattest Services: Are You Certain You Are in Compliance? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Preventing malpractice claims related to nonattest accounting services. Identifying and safeguarding independence threats when issuing attest reports. Establishing an understanding with the client regarding non-audit services. Defining the varying levels of responsibility for accountants performing non-audit services. Performing compilations and reviews effectively and efficiently, including nature and extent of documentation considerations. Practice performing analytical review procedures appropriately, including developing proper advance expectations for review engagements. Properly considering going concern, subsequent events, and other disclosure matters. Common issues related to peer reviews, including recurring reporting problems. Applying financial analysis best practices to help your clients better interpret their financial results.
Character and Trust: The Difference Maker in Effective Collaboration WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definition of collaboration. Character definition. Critical character attributes. Character self-awareness. Additional character identification techniques. Trust definitions. Waves of trust. Four cores of trust. Toxic trust and antibiotics.