CPE & Event Catalog
K2's Excel Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Accountants WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fundamental Excel techniques all accounting and financial professionals should know and use. Creating date-based calculations in Excel. How to create Excel templates. Key options you should enable in Excel. Linking data in Excel.
Building Personal Leadership Skills WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Leadership. Personality types. Communication. Uses of AI in the work place.
CFO Solutions to IRS Problems WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The authority of IRS in assessing and collecting taxes. The common misconceptions when dealing with IRS. Common questionable actions by business owners. How to prepare for an IRS audit. The seven options in IRS collections. Possible criminal tax violations by CFOs and small business owners.
The CPA as Strategic Advisor: Leading the Client Advisory Team WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The CPA as team leader. Roles of key advisory professionals. Identifying cross-disciplinary planning opportunities. Coordinating planning strategies. Communication and collaboration. Structuring advisory relationships. Risk and professional responsibility.
Using ChatGPT with Excel WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to ChatGPT and other AI language models. Discussion of best practices for using ChatGPT with Excel. Use ChatGPT to create, debug and explain formulas. Use ChatGPT to learn how to use Excel features. Use ChatGPT to automate repetitive tasks in Excel. Use ChatGPT to easily create macros.
A Fox in the Henhouse/Courthouse WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Internal controls. Fraud prevention. Fraud investigation.
Professional Skepticism for the Public Accountant WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Self-evaluation of skepticism. Requirements set forth by the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Risk assessment. Analytical procedures. Advice for cultivating your professionally skeptical mindset.
Federal Disasters - How to Deduct Personal Casualty Losses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Federal Disaster Relief Act provisions enacted in December, 2024 and July, 2025. Comparison of personal use casualties with business/investment casualties. When to claim casualty losses. How to postpone casualty gains. Filled-in forms examples. Time limits for amended returns.
Retaining Top Talent: Strategies for CPA Firms WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The true cost of turnover versus retention investment. Research findings on why professionals leave or stay. Whole person retention strategies beyond compensation. Work-life balance solutions that maintain productivity. Career development paths for non-partner track professionals. Business model transformations for sustainable staffing. Technology and outsourcing strategies to reduce burnout. Retention strategies specific to diverse talent and younger professionals.
Leveraging ChatGPT for Innovative Business Advisory Services WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The Introduction to ChatGPT and its applications in the business advisory context. In-depth exploration of enterprise evaluation methodologies like SWOT, PESTLE, BCG Matrix, McKinsey 7S Model, Ansoff Matrix, etc. Practical case studies demonstrating application of ChatGPT in accounting business analysis. Key challenges faced by accounting firms and how ChatGPT can help overcome these. Best practices for implementing AI tools in the accounting sector. Future opportunities and trends in AI enhanced business advisory services.
Partnership Preparation, Basis Calculations and Distributions – Form 1065 Schedule K and K-1 Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Extensive review of the partnership tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes. Review the Form 1065 to learn how income statement items get reported on the partnership/LLC tax return and flow-thru to the partner/members on Schedule K-1. Analyze the Schedule K-1 line-by-line and discuss where the items get reported on the individual's Federal income tax return and how the items affect the partner/members outside basis. Look at detailed Schedule K-1 information reporting to partners/members needed for the qualified business income deduction, 3.8% net investment income tax and business interest expense limitations. Formation issues including the mandatory allocation of the Section 704(c) pre-contribution gain or losses back to the contributing partner/member. Calculating the tax and Section 704(b) book capital accounts. Reporting recourse and non-recourse debt on the Schedule K-1Tax ramifications and reporting of cash and non-cash distributions including disproportionate distributions of "hot assets". Overview of the Section 754 election for optional basis adjustments triggering Section 743 and Section 734.
Building Security and Efficiency with Internal Control WEBINAR
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
An overview of control frameworks and concepts. Strategic considerations that can be incorporated into control development. Understanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change or choose not to. The COSO Internal Control Framework and the COSO ERM Framework.
ESG 101: What is Environmental, Social and Governance? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Environmental, Social and Governance concepts in today's world. Areas of accountability for ESG. How ESG impacts financial reporting.
Planning for Small Business Success WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The integrated planning model. The strategic plan. Linkage with Performance Based Management. Tracking success. Real world examples.
Accounting for and Auditing Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Common applications related to initial recognition and measurement, subsequent measurement or derecognition, presentation, and disclosure of cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Feedback from the AICPA's Digital Assets Working Group intended to assist auditors with opining on these digital records.
2026-27 Not-for-Profit GAAP Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Recently issued Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Updates impacting NFP financial reporting, along with standard-setting projects currently in the FASB pipeline. The International Non-Profit Accounting Standards - the first comprehensive global accounting framework designed specifically for non-profit organizations, launched in October 2025.
New Tips and Overtime Tax Rules: Compliance and Best Practices WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Updated OBBA guidance on tip reporting and allocation. Qualifying tip requirements. Self-employment and qualified tips. Employer and employee tax responsibilities for tipped wages. Overtime pay deduction. Tip and overtime information returns.
How AI Fits into the Accounting World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
An overview of AI constructs. How artificial intelligence is being used by accountants today. Accounting-centric AI developments on the horizon.
Shorten Month-End - Closing Best Practices WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Trends in financial statement closings . Review and discuss information systems headaches that slow you down. Work through examples of close cycle time killers and how to resolve them. Get inventory and cost of sales under control. Identify the improvement projects that will yield the biggest benefit.
ChatGPT and Advanced Financial Analysis for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Financial modeling with ChatGPT integration. Advanced ratio analysis techniques. Risk assessment and scenario analysis. Valuation methods and ChatGPT applications. Utilizing performance metrics in financial analysis. Data analysis and interpretation with AI. Investment analysis enhanced by ChatGPT.