CPE & Event Catalog
K2's Advanced Topics In Power BI WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Creating formulas in Power BI with Data Analysis Expressions. Adding Key Performance Indicators to your Power BI reports and dashboards. Managing security in Power BI. Publishing your reports and dashboards to Apps and Content Packs for easy sharing with other team members.
Reviewing S Corporation Tax Returns: What Are You Missing? WEBCAST -
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Common errors made involving Form 1120-S, Schedule K-1, Schedules K-2 and K-3, Schedule L, Schedules M-1 and M-2, Form 4562, and Form 4797.
Lease Implementation for Private Entities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Analysis of requirements for lease accounting under ASC 842, including detailed schedules showing journal entries and computations. Analysis of internal control and fraud risk aspects. Identification of high-risk areas of lease accounting and reporting. Suggested audit and review procedures for identified risks.
Accounting Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The elements of fraud and the Fraud Triangle Theory. Types of fraud with a focus on management fraud. Best practices in fraud detection and deterrence.
Retirement Advising: Accumulation and Decumulation Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The downside of traditional retirement asset accumulation strategies. Threats to a successful retirement. Holistic retirement planning: how personal goals integrate with tax, estate, risk, and investment management principles. Matching investment assets with the appropriate retirement plan and distribution strategy. Review recent legislation, including the changes for seniors in the One Big Beautiful Bill and the provisions of the SECURE Acts, and how they will impact retirement planning.
Retirement Distributions: Planning Options WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Roth IRA. Income tax treatment of distributions from retirement plans of all types. Laws, regulations and IRS rulings concerning plan distributions. Avoiding penalty on distributions that happen too early or too late. Beneficiary choices. Self-directed IRA investment problems.
Tax Planning for Small Businesses WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Starting a business - the tax life of a business. Selecting a business entity type. SECURE Act 1.0 and 2.0. Section 199A and the qualified business income deduction. Accounting methods. Compensation of owners - hiring family members. Reasonable compensation. Depreciation. Section 179 and bonus depreciation. Transactions with owners. Buy-sell and noncompete agreements. Exiting the business - special exit techniques.
Form 706 Preparation Part 1: Overview Including Portability WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Action steps in 706 preparation engagement. Filing requirements, new forms, IRS return review procedures, closing letters. Obtaining transcripts and previously filed returns. Completing introductory pages 1—4.
Comprehensive Partnership Taxation Form 1065 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Special and targeted allocations. Proper calculation of outside and inside tax basis. Tax consequences of distributions including the impact of hot assets. Transfer of partnership interests. Issuance of partnership interests to service partners.
Passive Activities and Rental Real Estate Income Tax Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of the passive activity rules under IRC Section 469, how the 3.8% net investment income tax under Section 1411 and qualified business income deduction under Section 199A applies to rentals and passive activities, and what is a trade or business rental is under Section 162. How the PAL rules apply to rental real estate activities and investments in S corporations and partnerships. Definition of activity and the activity grouping and disclosure rules. Real estate professional exception to the PAL rules for investments in non-passive rentals. Special $25,000 loss allowance for rental real estate with active participation. Material participation safe harbor rules. Events that trigger suspended PALs. Limitations on tax credits generated by passive activities. Special rules that re-characterize passive income to non-passive income. What rentals are subject to self-employment tax under Section 1402.
Form 706 Preparation Part 2: Reporting Assets WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Action steps in 706 preparation engagement. Filing requirements, new forms, IRS return review procedures, closing letters. Obtaining transcripts and previously filed returns. Completing introductory pages 1—4. Reporting assets.
Annual Update for Accountants and Auditors WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Narrow-scope accounting standards updates. FASB exposure drafts and projects. Exposure drafts of new auditing standards. Preparation, compilation, and review engagement updates.
Form 706 Preparation Part 3: Reporting Deductions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How to report funeral and administrative expenses on Schedule J and/or L. How to report debts, mortgages and liens on Schedule K. Marital deduction and elections, QTIP, Reverse QTIP, QDOT, over-stated marital deductions. Charitable deduction Schedule O and potential problems.
ABC Trust Planning and the Portable Exclusion WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The interplay of the estate, gift, generation-skipping, and income taxes. Claiming and protecting the portable exclusion. Marital deduction planning: rules for and reasons to use Survivor's, QTIP, and Qualified Domestic Trusts. Bypass trusts. Survivor's and QTIP trusts planning. Qualified Domestic Trust planning. What planners should tell their wealthy clients after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Federal Tax Update - Individuals (Form 1040) WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Discuss the most recent individual income tax legislation passed to date including any TCJA provisions expiring after 2025. Review numerous individual income tax provisions related to business, including but not limited to the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction, Section 461(l) business loss limitations, and depreciation. Cover issues related and any changes to the various taxes. Brush up on other topics such as income filing status, personal exemptions, itemized deductions, exclusions from income, adjustments to income, rentals, passive activity rules and individual income tax credits. Walk through changes to IRAs and the NEW final required minimum distribution (RMD) regulations. Look at any changes to the Form 1040 and other related schedules and forms.
Form 706 Preparation Part 4: GST Schedule R, Form 8971, Payments and Credits WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Schedule R, including election statements and integration with the marital deduction. Foreign Death Tax Credit, Schedule P and Prior Transfer Credit, Schedule Q. Qualified Conservation Easements, Schedule U. Making Sec. 6166 election and using Graegin loans.
Annual Update and Practice Issues for Preparation, Compilation and Review Engagements WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Preparation engagements. Compilation engagements. Review engagements. Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services, including SSARS No.27, SSARS No. 26, SSARS No. 25, SSARS No. 24, SSARS No. 22, SSARS No. 23. Engagement administration issues. Special purpose framework financial statement issues. Current accounting and reporting issues. What's on the horizon.
2026 Washington Ethics and New Developments with Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Washington ethics rules and recent changes. New developments and best practices for CPAs in public accounting and industry. Case studies and Washington administration and enforcement.
Accounting for Income Taxes for Private Companies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Sample Schedule M calculations. Sample work papers for deferred tax computations. Comprehensive two-year example and computations. Review and analysis of recurring temporary differences. Identification of the sources to compute cumulative temporary differences. Sample workpapers for analysis of tax positions.
Lease Accounting - Making Sense of the Standard WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
What control of assets constitute a lease. Embedded leases. Fixed and variable consideration. Determining the lease term. Modifications and assessments. Related party leases. Presenting leases on financial statements. Components of calculating liabilities and rights of use.