CPE & Event Catalog

How ACH payments work. Protection against ACH fraud. Best and worst ACH practices. Wire transfers. Real time payments.

Accounting theory and practice. Structures of financial statements.

Annual report: the financial statements. Annual report: other sections of the report. Analysis of financial statements for liquidity, asset utilization and solvency. Analysis of financial statements for profitability and market value.

Identifying risk of material misstatement through preliminary analytic review procedures. Ensuring sufficient appropriate audit evidence is gathered through final overall analytic review. Establishing expectations for analytic procedures. Properly designing, documenting and evaluating the results of substantive analytic review procedures. Disaggregating substantive analytics for stronger results. Factors impacting the design of substantive analytic procedures. Common pitfalls in performing substantive analytic procedures.

Analytical procedures. Critical thinking.

Analytical procedures for nonprofits.

Introduction to management accounting. Accumulation of costs. Break-even and cost-volume-profit analysis. Budgeting for profit planning and financial modeling. Performance evaluation, transfer pricing, and decentralization. Long-term investment and capital budgeting decisions.

Terms of engagement - Au-C Section 210. Auditor's communication with those charged with governance - AU-C Section 260. External confirmations - AU-C Section 505. Written representations - Au-C Section 580. Communicating internal controls matters identified in an audit - Au-C Section 265. Audit evidence - litigation, claims, and assessments - Au-C Section 5001.

Applying the new expected credit loss model.

Identify threats. Evaluating the significance of threats. Identify and apply safeguards. Evaluating the effectiveness of safeguards. Documenting threats and safeguards. Adverse interest threat. Advocacy threat. Familiarity threat. Management participation threat. Self-review threat. Undue influence threat.

Exploring AI applications in accounting and finance. Understanding AI features in everyday tools. Embracing the future: AI's impact on finance and accounting.

Fraud studies and statistics. Fraudulent financial reporting risk factors. Misappropriation of assets. Auditing. Identifying and assessing risks. Assessment results response. Revenue recognition fraud. Disclosure failures. Studying fraud schemes.

Asset protection. Trusts. Divorce.

Introduction to asset protection. Insurance. Asset placement. Bankruptcy. Avoiding tax on debt cancellation and foreclosure. Divorce settlements and divisions. Protecting assets from old age and catastrophic illness, and more.

Financial tax planning. Deferral. Income splitting.

Financial tax planning. Deferral. Income splitting.

Website. Directories. Content marketing. SEO. Social media. Online ads.

Audit documentation.

Red flags in financial and revenue reporting. Financial statement irregularities. Key financial ratios and benchmarks. Unusual accounting practices. Using analytics and trend analysis. Revenue recognition red flags.

Avoiding peer review deficiencies.