CPE & Event Catalog
2025 Governmental GAAP Update: Navigating GASB Standards WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
New GASB standards: GASB 100. Accounting changes and error corrections. GASB 101. Compensated Absences. Practical case studies.
Behind the Curtain: Exploring IRS Audit Technique Guides WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of ATGs. Best practices for utilizing ATGs. Salient provisions of selected ATGs. Insights auditors may obtain from analytical procedures. Nuances associated with selected industries.
IRS Penalties and Abatements WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Various types of penalties: Accuracy related, fraud, understatement of valuation, reporting requirement, failure to pay, and pay or deposit penalties. Rules on waiver of penalties and interests. Various forms and procedures for requesting relief. First Time Abatement: Requirements and procedures. How an individual taxpayer qualifies for Reasonable Cause abatement. Procedures for requesting refund of paid penalties. Available administrative options.
Accounting and Reporting Long-Term Debt WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Debt terms that impact classification of debt, such as due on demand and subjective acceleration clauses, and more. Proper treatment of short-term obligations that are expected to refinance within the next 12 months. "Revolving" credit agreements, where short-term debt is automatically replaced with other short-term debt for a specified period of time. Differentiating between debt modifications and troubled debt restructuring. Debt covenant compliance special considerations, including the proper form of waiver of rights to call the debt for violation.
How to Choose the Right Business Entity for Your Client WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation and developments related to choice of entity - such as sole proprietorships, single member LLCs, partnership/LLCs, S corporations, and C corporations. Impact of the Section 199A deduction. Ramifications of the C to S election and the S to C election; Corporate tax rate to individual tax rate comparison examples. Other related topics.
Comprehensive Accounting and Financial Reporting Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
CECL for nonfinancial institutions. Accounting for Paycheck Protection Program loans. Accounting for web-hosting services. Revenue recognition. Leases. FASB projects in progress.
Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
GASB pronouncements. Single Audit issues. Yellow Book issues. Audit issues. Federal funding challenges.
Single Audit and Uniform Guidance Issues Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The nuts and bolts of a Single Audit. Overview of the GAO's Fraud Risk Management Framework and the importance of fraud risk in a Single Audit. Specific audit issues arising relating to the continued Pandemic and Infrastructure funding programs. Review of unique elements of the 2025 Compliance Supplement (if available). Recent changes to specific Uniform Guidance rules and regulations.
Fraud Case Studies: 21st Century Professional Misbehavior WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Salient provisions the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Examination of actual frauds. Discussion of internal controls that could have prevented or mitigated actual frauds. Contemplation of epiphanies for your own professional scenarios. Implications for professional conduct and compliance with professional standards.
Section 199A Rules and Forms Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
A deep-dive look at the Section 199A flow-through entities deduction. Calculation of qualified business income. Self-rental rule for 199A compared to self-rental rule for passive activities. Differing impact on the sole proprietorship, partnerships and S corporations. Forms reporting in Form 8995 and Form 8995-A. 199A flowchart.
The AB5s of Employees and Independent Contractors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Four ways to classify a worker. IRS 20 Factors. 20% Section 199A deduction. Cost of misclassifying an employee. Section 530 relief. Game changing impact of the Dynamex case and AB5.
Yellow Book Ethics WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The concept of public interest. Independence, and professional judgment. Competence and continuing professional education. Quality control and peer review. Proper use of government information, resources, and position. Professional behavior.
Small Business Risk Avoidance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
New perspective on corporate governance. ERM overview. ERM-small business approach. 10 steps to take NOW.
Self-Rental Real Estate Passive Activity Rules WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definition of self-rental property - both for Sections 199A and 469. Self-rental income from directly owned properties and reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E, page 1. Self-rental income from indirectly owned and reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E, page 2. Self-rental property and the Form 8582. Self-rental property and the flow-through entity grouping election. Real-life situations illustrate the various possibilities and discuss the consequences of failing to comply with the reporting standards.
Navigating Tax Court for Non-Lawyers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Determining when filing a Tax Court case can be a strategic benefit. Learn how to file the case. Understand the steps and deadlines in the Tax Court process. Review the settlement process. Know when the case gets to the point where you need help.
Introduction to Governmental Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Governmental financial reporting. Auditing. Yellow book.
Key Tax Issues for Business Taxpayers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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. Partnership and S corporation legislative updates.
Prix Fixe: Are We Better Off? The Economy, Elections, and the Inflation Hangover WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Today's economic landscape.
Tax Depreciation: How to Optimize Deductions WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation and developments related to depreciation and capitalization. Eligible property for Section 179 and Section 168(k). Section 179 deduction and its use to depreciate real property. Section 168(k) deduction and its use to depreciate real property. Disposition of segments of real property. Exchanges of tangible personal property after repeal of the like-kind exchange rules.
Revenue Recognition in an Environment of Uncertainty WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Alternatives to adopting Topic 842. Short-term lease and related-party leasing arrangements. Identifying lease agreements under the new rules. Proper treatment of lease incentives, leasehold improvements, and lease modifications.