CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Controllership Skills Update – Budgeting, Forecasting, and Big Data
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Why forecasts and budgets are frequently wrong: behavioral finance; improper goal setting, games, continuing the status quo, traditional budgeting techniques Incorporating strategy into budgets: improving measurement systems; common errors, developing strategies and appropriate measurements Expanding the budgeting framework: rolling forecasts; mission-based budgeting, zero-based budgeting, post-completion evaluations, contingency planning, black swan events, identifying improvements Big data: definition, challenges, goals, current uses/examples, sources of information Analytical tools: ration analysis, benchmarking, Pareto analysis, trend analysis, regression, simulation, dashboards
ACPEN: Advanced IT Audit & Real-World Testing
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Webinar
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) Testing Audit Execution Workpapers
ACPEN: Ask Me No Questions and I Will Tell You No Lies
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Webinar
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Types of Stress Indicators Verbal Cues Nonverbal Communication Behavioral Context Truth-Elicitation Techniques
ACPEN: A Practitioner’s Guide to IRAs and Qualified Retirement Plans
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $250
Traditional and Roth IRAs: Understanding retirement savings options SEP and SIMPLE IRAs: Exploring retirement plans for small businesses Qualified Plans: Navigating employer-sponsored retirement plans Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans: Comparing retirement plan structures 401(k) Plans: Maximizing benefits with employer-sponsored options Retirement Plan Selection: Choosing the best plan for individual client needs Minimum Distribution Rules: Ensuring compliance and understanding withdrawal regulations Tax Implications: Analyzing the tax consequences of retirement plan decisions Retirement Planning Strategies: Implementing effective strategies for client financial goals
Accounting for and Auditing Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Common applications related to initial recognition and measurement, subsequent measurement or derecognition, presentation, and disclosure of cryptocurrency and other digital assetsFeedback from the AICPA's Digital Assets Working Group intended to assist auditors with opining on these digital records
ACPEN: Generation Intelligence: Navigating the Generational Divide
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Generations
Mining Your Firm Client Database for Revenue
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:How accounting and tax professionals can transform dormant data into dynamic growth. When leveraged strategically, your client base becomes more than a list --it becomes a roadmap to higher-value services, expanded engagements, and greater long-term retention.How to audit client records, segment strategically, and surface needs that often go unmet --all without adding complexity or compromising relationships.Using the data you already own and relationships you have already built to drive smarter growth.
ACPEN: Functional Approach to Employee Benefits
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Webinar
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $79
Benefits Benefits Communications Total Rewards
ACPEN: Depreciating & Expensing Business Assets
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Recent tax legislation, rules and developments related to capitalization and depreciation Qualified improvement property Section 179, including inflation adjustments Section 168(k) 100% bonus deduction Depreciation of automobiles, including new luxury auto limits Rev. Proc. 87-57 and MACRS ADS depreciation for electing farm and real estate business Update on recent developments
ACPEN: Current Fraud Trends - Nonprofit and Government Entities
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Best practices for fraud prevention and detection Common fraud schemes in nonprofit and government entities including cash misappropriation, payroll fraud, vendor fraud, falsified billings, improper use of credit cards or purchase cards, the redirection of cash and non-cash contributions, personal use of assets, the redirection of grant benefits, other grant related fraud, travel and expense reporting fraud
ACPEN: Indirect Cost Rates 2026: What Nonprofits Must Know to Build NICRA-Proof Proposals
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Impact of Fall 2025 Shutdown and DOGE on HHS Cost Accounting Services Maneuvering in the new HHS ICAS Portal What to do if your provisional indirect rate expires Thinking out of the box
Surgent's Privacy and Security Training: Obligations of Confidentiality and Safekeeping
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Obligations of confidentiality and safekeeping Security best practices to apply beyond work Likely causes and effects of a large-scale cyberattack Email security best practices Remote work security Mobile device security Internet of Things (IoT) risks Public Wi-Fi risk and the importance of using a VPN Recognizing and avoiding text message/phone call phishing Data loss prevention (DLP)
Surgent's The Accountant as the Expert Witness
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Becoming qualified as an expert witness Best practices for testifying at trial Understanding the different roles accountants can play in litigation Working with attorneys to prepare and present a case at trial The role of experts in commercial versus personal injury litigation Confidentiality orders Compensation for expert witnesses Preparing for and attending depositions Daubert challenges to experts Expert reports The role of experts in antitrust, securities litigation, and professional liability cases Credibility as a witness
Business Transformation: Critical Skills for CFOs and Controllers
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $139
Fundamentals of Form 1040 -- Business
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Self-employment and business income taxation (Schedule C, self-employment tax, business deductions)Reporting income from pass-through entities (Schedule E, Schedule K-1, Shareholder stock and debt basis on Form 7203)Application of Form 7217 for capital construction fundsBest practices for self-employed clients and small business ownersKey deductions and credits for business ownersAvoiding common IRS audit triggers related to business income reportingLegislative updates impacting business income taxation in the current year
ACPEN: Federal Tax Update - C & S Corporations, Partnerships & LLCs (Forms 1120, 1120S & 1065)
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $300
Discuss the most recent business income tax legislation passed to date Review numerous business income tax provisions including but not limited to the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction; changes to NOLs, §461(l) business loss limitations, §163(j) business interest deduction limitations, accounting method changes, depreciation, fringe benefits and entertainment expenses Brush up on issues related to compensation, distributions, liquidations, self-employment taxes and retirement plan Look at any changes to the Forms 1120, 1120S, and 1065 and other related schedules and forms
Invest in Your Mental Health and Avoid Burnout
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:How to recognize burnout and evaluate where you are on the burnout scale.How impostor syndrome drives coping reactions of overworking, over preparing and perfectionism.How mindfulness can reduce stress and save time.Silencing the critical inner voice.Tools to help you become more attuned to your needs and emotions.How attending to and regulating your nervous system impacts your mood and well-being.
Surgent's Managing People Through Motivation
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
What it means to engage people; discuss the meaning of motivation by getting to the core of what impacts your employees’ productivity Get your employees charged; find out what makes them tick through examining and understanding some of the classics in motivational theory Learn how to drill down to what truly motivates your employees Using the C.A.R.E. model to improve employee motivation through case studies
Controls to Secure the Growing Digital Footprint
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics covered in this course include:Securing individual documentsProtecting information resident in the CloudSecuring data stored on or accessed by mobile devices
ACPEN: Strategic Government Budgeting: Tools for Long-Term Sustainability
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Forecasting & Budgeting Auditing & Accounting Yellowbook