CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's The CMA's Guide to Project Management
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Establishing a system: identifying forces that support the status quo; setting milestones and goals; the role of the CMA Necessary first steps: set a framework for the project’s activities; identify needed resources; obtain support; decide on a structure; establish a team for a specific project; identify necessary team skill sets Project evaluation: analytical tools, strategic evaluation; sources of risk Maintaining focus: monitoring and measuring results; keeping to the project’s scope Avoiding frequent traps: sunk costs; financing pitfalls; project creep; tunnel vision; failure to integrate the team’s work internally and/or the final project with the remaining organization Introduction and examples of analytical tools throughout the session: mapping; CPM; Gantt charts; benchmarking; Pareto analysis; PESTLE analysis; valuation techniques; post-completion evaluations
Guide to Preparing Form 1041 for Estates and Trusts
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Current rates and brackets Calculating a trust's AGI Filing requirements, deadlines and penalties 3.8% Medicare surtax on net investment income (NII) Simple vs. complex trusts Grantor Trusts: Four options to report activity Section 643 (g) Election Taxable income of trusts, estate and beneficiaries
Unpacking OBBA for Individual Taxpayers
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:New law provisions applicable to individuals, including deductions for: Tip income and overtime pay; Social security income; Car loan interest; AGI charitable contribution deduction; Trump accountAn overview of provisions of existing law extended or made permanent without substantial change, including casualty losses, individual tax rates, alternative minimum tax.Provisions of existing law extended or made permanent with substantial change, including: child tax credit, earned income credit, standard deduction, state and local tax deduction.Repeal existing law provisions, including electric car credit and home energy credits
2025 Annual Update for Governments and Not-for-Profits
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Webinar
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $209
Not for Profit Governmental Auditing & Accounting Yellowbook
How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concepts
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $225
Properly assessing inherent, control, and fraud risk on an engagement, and linking the results to an appropriately tailored detailed audit plan based on risk assessment and client service goals, regardless of entity type (for-profit, nonprofit, governmental) Leveraging strong substantive analytic procedures as audit evidence to cut back on tests of details The most common efficiency opportunities for tailoring your audit approach based on risk How to use the workpaper review process as a tool for producing a more effective and efficient engagement Using audit documentation to enhance audit quality, while ensuring every workpaper has a purpose How to use the client to your advantage in planning and performing the audit Learn how to get the engagement out the door – on time and on budget!
S Corporation (Form 1120S) - Formation to Liquidation
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $300
Extensive review of the S corporation tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes Requirements to make an S election (i.e., types and numbers of shareholders and second class of stock issues) Fixing late S corporation elections (i.e., Form 2553) S corporation formation (§351) and liquidation issues Revocation and termination of S corporations Schedule K and K-1 – separately stated versus non-separately stated income and expense items Detailed Schedule K-1 reporting including the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction and 3.8% net investment income tax Compensation issues including the tax treatment of fringe benefits Built in gains tax and other planning opportunities when converting a C to S corporation Preparation of the Schedule M-2 and the ordering rules for distributions out of the AAA, PTI, E&P and OAA accounts Tax treatment of stock redemptions (sale or distribution?)
ACPEN Signature 2025- Small Business: Hot Tax Issues Today
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $250
Legislative update on expiring tax provisions affecting small businesses; Legislative update on new tax provisions impacting small businesses; Communications with the IRS; Tax audits of small businesses; Judicial update on self-employment tax litigation on self-employment taxes of partners and LLC members. Worker verification requirements and penalties---old and new. Tax planning opportunities—old and new.
Annual Conference (In Person)
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Salt Lake City
16.00 Credits
Member Price: $351
Surgent's Form 1040 Return Review Boot Camp for New and Experienced Reviewers
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
Review an error-prone "staff-prepared" Form 1040 from client-provided information. Where do you start? Get to know your client and ask the questions Several new reporting issues for the reviewer to consider, including the main credit provisions as enacted under the American Rescue Plan What are common errors preparers make and what are the areas generating malpractice claims? The importance of engagement letters, questionnaires, and §7216 permission statement Initial administrative groundwork Identifying organizing issues in the tax return to be reviewed Avoiding “willful blindness.” Handling ethical and moral dilemmas Efficient review of certain advanced issues for income, adjustments, deductions, and credits Effective procedures for delinquent clients, filing past-due tax returns First-time client issues requiring extra scrutiny Multiple checklists of efficient procedures to identify potential issues on a 1040 return Listing of schedules for staff to prepare to make a review easier, including basis issues for 1040 clients Reconciling time pressure with thoroughness and quality control Professionals acting professionally
Annual Conference (Virtual)
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Webinar
16.00 Credits
Member Price: $351
Tax Depreciation: Review and Update
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Recent tax legislation and developments related to capitalizationEligible property for Section 179 and Section 168(k)Discussion of the Section 179 deduction and its use to depreciate real propertyThe Section 168(k) deduction and its use to depreciate real propertyDisposition of segments of real propertyExchanges of tangible personal property after repeal of the like-kind exchange rulesOther related topics
The Controllers Role in Data Analytics and Big Data
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Webinar
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $59
Accounting Finance Financial Statements
Roadmap to Ethical Decision Making
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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
Internal Control Best Practices
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Auditing Yellowbook
Advanced Cost Accounting: Eliminate Calculation Distortions
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Cost Accounting
Ethics and Civility in the Workplace
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:What is civility and how it is tied to the bottom line?Principles of CivilityGiving the Benefit of the DoubtInclusivityCommunication Review of ethical values and principles with an emphasis on:RespectCourageCompassionHonor Accountability
Real Estate Tax Issues: Passive Activity, Self-Rental and Section 199A
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Integration of the real estate professional rules with reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E Real estate professionals and indirectly owned (partnerships, S corporations) entity's reporting on Form 1040 How "real estate business" is interpreted under the Section 199A rules and how it integrates with the passive activity rules Real estate professionals and the Form 8582 (Passive Activities) How to make the "grouping" election for passive activities and the flow-through deduction Definition of self-rental property - both for Sections 199A and 469 Reporting using Form 1040, Schedule E, page 1 and 2 Self-rental property and the Form 8582 (passive activity)
2025 A&A Update With Technology Implementation
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Deep dive into the Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) effective in 2025.Insights from the FAF's 2024 PCC Review.Overview of FASB's Invitation to Comment - Agenda Consultation.The essential changes in quality management standards that firms must implement by the end of 2025. Common deficiencies identified by the DOL in EBP (Employee Benefit Plan) engagements and provide a peek at upcoming projects from the Auditing Standards Board (ASB).
Basic Staff Tax Training: Individual 25-26
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Emphasize form 1040 and the accompanying reporting schedules for a basic individual income tax return Identify and be able to implement basic individual income tax planning ideas for clients Familiarity with several source documents utilized in the preparation of an individual income tax return Identify common errors made in the preparation of an individual income tax return and understand how to avoid the errors in the future
Comprehensive Update: FASB, AICPA (SAS, SQMS, SSARS & Ethics) 25-26
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
ASU effective in 2024 and beyond Recent SAS Selected ethics interpretations