CPE & Event Catalog
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.
Critical Soft Skills for CFOs and Controllers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Tips for being a balanced leader. Adapting to various personality styles. Tips for coaching millennials and beyond. Best practices for managing organizational change.
Guide to Deducting Travel, Meals and Entertainment Expenses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation, rules and developments impacting travel and meals expense reporting. Adequate accounting rules for reimbursements, including accountable plans, going paperless, reimbursement for non-deductible expenses. Reporting travel expenses: travel status, simplified per diem. Directly related to and associated with tests. Facility vs. activity expenses. Nine exceptions to Section 274. Business meals.
A Practitioner’s Guide to IRAs and Qualified Retirement Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Traditional and Roth IRAs. SEP and SIMPLE IRAs. Qualified plans. 401(k) plans. Retirement plan selection. Minimum distribution rules. Tax implications. Retirement planning strategies.
Navigating IRS Correspondence: Responding to IRS Letters WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Types of IRS letters: General notices, audits, collections, return requests, and errors. Deadlines for responding to IRS correspondence. Communication best practices for dealing with the IRS. Avoiding escalation and penalties through proactive responses. Ensuring compliance when addressing IRS correspondence. Real world examples of successful IRS communications. Common pitfalls in handling IRS letters and how to avoid them. Strategies for advising clients on IRS correspondence.
Accounting and Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review of new accounting standards issued in 2025 and 2026. Applicable changes to accounting for government grants and crypto currency. Compilation and review standards and interpretations. Auditing standards including a deep dive into the quality management standards.
Comprehensive Pass-Through Owners Basis and Distribution Rules WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the owner's individual income tax return. Determine how to calculate an owner's initial tax basis of his pass-through entity. Learn how to correctly make annual adjustments to a pass-through owner's tax basis. Identify what constitutes a debt basis for an S corporation shareholder. Learn the tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders.
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.