CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Employee vs. Independent Contractor: Achieving Success in a Worker Classification Audit
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The 20 common law factors in a worker classification audit that are used to distinguish an employee from an independent contractor How disgruntled independent contractors can use IRS Form 8919 against a former employer When and how to use §530 as a defense in worker classification audits What is "industry practice" for §530 purposes Common sense steps that will avoid the recharacterization of workers treated as independent contractors to employees The IRS’s Voluntary Classification Settlement Program — advantages and disadvantages The DOL Final Rule
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Health Care, Retirement, and Fringe Benefit Tax Issues
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4.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
ERISA compliance: employee welfare plans and qualified plans Fringe benefit issues: COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care Health care plans: HRAs, HSAs, and other employer-sponsored plans Qualified plan requirements: eligibility, coverage, and vesting
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Health Care, Retirement, and Fringe Benefit Tax Issues
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4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
ERISA compliance: employee welfare plans and qualified plans Fringe benefit issues: COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care Health care plans: HRAs, HSAs, and other employer-sponsored plans Qualified plan requirements: eligibility, coverage, and vesting
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Legal, Tax, and Health Care Issues
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8.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
Hiring and firing issues – What questions cannot be asked in an interview; how to document employee performance; establishing an annual review system; when an employer may and may not fire an employee, and much more Employment contracts – An analysis of the legal and planning issues in structuring employment contracts; when noncompetition agreements will and will not work Employment issues in the economy – Telecommuters and other special situations Legal liability issues – Recognition of age discrimination, sex discrimination, FLSA issues, minimum wage, overtime, sexual harassment, and more Fringe benefit issues – COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care Medical plans – Who is a full-time employee?
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Legal, Tax, and Health Care Issues
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8.00 Credits
Member Price: $199
Hiring and firing issues – What questions cannot be asked in an interview; how to document employee performance; establishing an annual review system; when an employer may and may not fire an employee, and much more Employment contracts – An analysis of the legal and planning issues in structuring employment contracts; when noncompetition agreements will and will not work Employment issues in the economy – Telecommuters and other special situations Legal liability issues – Recognition of age discrimination, sex discrimination, FLSA issues, minimum wage, overtime, sexual harassment, and more Fringe benefit issues – COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care Medical plans – Who is a full-time employee?
Surgent's Engagement and Client Retention Best Practices
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Managing client expectations How automation improves client engagement Understanding the role of feedback systems Seeking referrals Building client loyalty Customer retention marketing Expanding services offered to clients Knowing when it is appropriate to enter new markets
Surgent's Engaging and Managing Young Professionals
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Characteristics that are more dominant among younger working professionals and what distinguishes them from other sectors of the workforce Changes younger professionals seek in the workplace Suggestions on engaging and developing younger workers Best practices by organizations who have successfully integrated younger professionals Expectations as to learning, development, and training Work environments and schedules School-to-work transitions Views on salary, benefits, and corporate ethics Whether younger professionals’ expectations are significantly different from any other generation Strengths younger professionals offer which set them apart from others Common myths pertaining to younger professionals Definitions of success
Surgent's Enterprise Risk Management Concepts and Strategy for Small and Medium-Sized Companies
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4.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Overview of ERM and how it affects all organizations What COVID-19 has taught us about risk management Risk tolerance and developing a plan Risk identification Risk analysis Risk responses Strategy risk
Surgent's Enterprise Risk Management Concepts and Strategy for Small and Medium-Sized Companies
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4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Overview of ERM and how it affects all organizations What COVID-19 has taught us about risk management Risk tolerance and developing a plan Risk identification Risk analysis Risk responses Strategy risk
Surgent's Enterprise Risk Management for Small and Medium-Sized Companies
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8.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
The nature of risk in any size or type of organization Risk tolerance and developing a risk plan Risk identification Risk evaluation Risk response Strategy risk Financial risk Marketing risk Compliance and liability risk Operational risk Environmental risk Cyber risk
Surgent's Essential Depreciation and Expensing Update
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4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
New bonus depreciation and §179 changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) Resolved technical glitches for qualified improvement property Detailed coverage of §179 expense elections and §168(k) bonus or additional first-year depreciation – maximizing deductions, definitions, limitations, and qualified property Sales of property and the depreciation recapture rules (§1245, §1250, unrecaptured §1250 gain for real estate, §291 for corporations) MACRS depreciation – finding the proper method, convention, and recovery period Listed property and the current limitations Amortization of startup, organization, and other expenditures AMT depreciation adjustments and how to avoid them Examples, cases, and rulings of depreciation and amortization issues and how they impact clients, along with useful planning opportunities
Surgent's Essentials Of Audit Sampling
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
• Types of sampling and sampling risk • Attribute testing for tests of controls and compliance • Variable sampling for substantive assurance • Differentiating statistical and nonstatistical sampling approaches • Determining sample sizes in a compliance audit
Surgent's Establishing State Residency and Saving Your Clients Money
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Typical provisions in state statutes regarding domicile and residency In depth analysis of domicile and residency definitions Issues regarding one’s permanent abode Analysis of jurisdiction where taxpayer has the greatest connections Detailed discussion of criteria used to establish domicile and residency
Surgent's Estate and Life Planning Issues for the Middle-Income Client
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8.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
Comprehensive coverage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act SECURE 2.0 updates More than 20 documents that should be reviewed that are neither a will nor trust Applicable rates, and tactics that may be used to minimize them Reducing the impact of ancillary administration Provisions you need in a will When a trust is needed for children Durable powers of attorney, for financial matters and for healthcare Realistic retirement goals Management of insurance: liability, disability, and life Dealing with marriage and divorce Titling assets effectively Developments relative to estate tax, and the implications for planning
Surgent's Ethics for Tax Professionals
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
What does practicing before the IRS mean? Who may practice before the IRS? What should a tax preparer do if he or she has knowledge of a client's omission of income from a tax return? May a tax preparer rely on the work of other tax return preparers? May a tax preparer rely on and use client-provided information? Standards associated with giving advice to clients Abolition of the disclaimer requirement When must a tax preparer examine a client’s books and records?
Surgent's Evaluating Sufficiency and Appropriateness of Audit Evidence
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
SAS 142, Audit Evidence (recently issued) Relevance and reliability of audit evidence Sources of evidence Audit procedures Evaluation of tests of controls Evaluation of sufficiency and appropriateness of evidence
Surgent's Examining ASC 842, Leases
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $49
ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) Overall lease accounting guidance Lessor Accounting 101 Lessee Accounting 101 Detailed review of accounting by lessees and lessors Sale and leaseback transactions Other operational issues Recently issued updates to the lease accounting guidance ASU No. 2023-01, Common Control Arrangements
Surgent's Examining ASC 842, Leases: More Than Meets the Eye
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4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) Overall lease accounting guidance Lessor Accounting 101 Lessee Accounting 101 Detailed review of accounting by lessees and lessors Sale and leaseback transactions Operational issues Updates to the lease accounting guidance Feedback from the public company adoption of Topic 842
Surgent's Excel for Staff Level 1 - What You Never Learned
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Navigating around worksheets Selecting cells and ranges How to use custom number formatting How to leverage Views How to build better formulas with referenced variables and defined names How to quickly format cells with Cell Styles Proper worksheet structure
Surgent's Excel for Staff Level 2 - Getting More Out of Excel
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2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Overview of setting up spreadsheets for data analysis and how Excel tables can help Learning the importance of consistent column calculations How to use conditional formatting to highlight important information How to leverage Excel tables by analyzing them in PivotTables Learning to leverage array formulas