CPE Catalog & Events
Budget Mastery: Process, Problems, and Solutions
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Defining the budget process Common budgetary cultures and discussion of solutions Does your budget need an overhaul or just a tune up? How to make the budget flexible Making a better budget and maybe even a better you (or at least improving the perception of the budget work itself)
K2'S Eight Awesome PivotTable Features
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Adding user-defined calculations to PivotTables Enhancing PivotTables with Key Performance Indicators Using PivotTables to consolidate “standard” Excel reports Creative ways to filter PivotTables Linking accounting software data into PivotTables
Surgent's Ins and Outs of Health Savings Accounts
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Benefits of an HSA How an employer sets up an HSA How individuals qualify to set up an HSA High deductible health plans and how they relate to an HSA Eligible medical expenditures Annual contributions to an HSA Importance of enrollment in Medicare Qualified HSA funding distribution
Topic 842 - Implementing Leases Workshop
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Accounting Yellowbook Leases Standards ASC 842
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
How AI Is Automating Internal Control
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics covered in this class include:An explanation of Artificial Intelligence (AI).Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
K2's Securing Your Data: Practical Tools For Protecting Information
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Understanding today’s cybersecurity risks Identifying major cybersecurity risks Implementing specific steps to reduce risk
Partnership Essentials: Review & Update
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Recent legislative, rules and tax developments impacting partnerships and their partners Transfer of partnership interests TCJA §461(l) Excess Business Losses and §163(j) Business Interest Expense Importance of capital accounts Form 1065, Schedules K-1 and M-2 Schedules K-2 and K-3 update Reporting partner capital accounts Effect of the Ceiling Rule Alternative and Remedial Methods Effect on financial capital accounts Tax basis capital accounts
KPI Bootcamp for Small Businesses
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Webinar
5.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
Turning strategy into KPIs KPI shortlisting and selection KPI definition KPI implementation KPI deployment
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!
Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (199A) - The Ins & Outs
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $300
Detailed coverage of calculating the combined qualified business income amount (i.e., QBI component and REIT/PTP component) Determine what trade or businesses under §162 are eligible for the QBI deduction (i.e., rentals and specified service trades or businesses (SSTB)) Discuss how the 20% QBI deduction (i.e., QBI component) is subject to a wage/capital limitation and SSTB income is phased-out for taxpayers with taxable income above the inflation adjusted threshold amounts Walk through the simplified QBI Form 8995 (i.e., taxpayers below the TI threshold amounts) and detailed Form 8995-A and related schedules Determine what wages and unadjusted basis immediately after acquisition (UBIA) are for those subject to the wage and capital limitations Look at what the definition of QBI is and what items are effectively connected with that trade or business (i.e., self-employment tax, health insurance, retirement plans) Review the aggregation rules for the QBI computation and both the entity and individual level Walk through the reporting responsibilities of partnerships and S corporations to their owners on the Schedule K-1s Explain how the modifications to the net operating losses (NOLs) and §461(l) excess business loss limitations affect the QBI computation
K2'S Privacy Issues And Solutions - What You Need to Know!
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
The most significant privacy threats today Your browser and search engine and why they matter Privacy policies – the fine print
Internal Control Best Practices
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Auditing Yellowbook
2024 Revision to Government Auditing Standards Impact
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Key changes made by the 2024 Revision to Government Auditing StandardsReview when the GAGAS requirements are applicable to a financial statement auditWhen reporting on key audit matters may apply in a GAGAS auditClarifications related to the independence requirements in a financial statement audit imposed by the 2024 Yellow BookReview the impact of the Quality Management Standards to a financial statement audit conducted under the 2024 Revision to Government Auditing StandardsOther important matters contained in the 2024 Government Auditing Standards related to financial statement audits
GAAP Update 25-26
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Business combinations and consolidations Lease accounting Financial instruments - credit losses (CECL) Intangibles, including goodwill Fair value
Internal and External Fraud: Understanding It and Working to Control It 25-26
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Understanding why internal fraud occurs Fraudulent acts initiated by outside organizations Policies, procedures and control measures designed to fight fraud Steps that verify anti-fraud activities are working
The Single Audit from Beginning to End Update
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $225
Introduction Applicable AICPA standards Applicable OMB Circular Gathering information - determining the major programs Identifying risk – identifying the applicable compliance requirements Assessing risk – considering the internal controls over compliance requirements Designing procedures that are responsive to assessed risks – the tests of internal controls and compliance Evaluating single audit evidence
Leveraging ChatGPT for Innovative Business Advisory Services
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Introduction to ChatGPT and its applications in the business advisory contextIn-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 analysisKey challenges faced by accounting firms and how ChatGPT can help overcome theseBest practices for implementing AI tools in the accounting sectorFuture opportunities and trends in AI-enhanced business advisory services
How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Team dynamics Influence Organizational behavior Leadership
Budget Mastery: Walkthroughs and Real World Calculations Towards Tying Budgets To Value
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
How to build a flexible budget model that works? What are the steps we can take to budget for economic and external factors beyond our control? How the right Chart of Accounts can simply your work? Budget and GAAP are not the same and why they are fine not to be Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense Using key variables to stress-test your budget