CPE Catalog & Events
Avoiding Budget People Issues: Managing Budgeting's Soft Side
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA)
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
The Rise of Business Intelligence (BI), Business Analytics (BA), and Big Data Why the interest in BI and BA? The analytics continuum How BA can provide a competitive advantage The difference between BI and BA The difference between forecasting and predictive analytics Fundamentals of analytical techniques Examples for the CFO and accounting function Benefits from applying analytics The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the accounting profession
K2's 2023 Introduction To Excel Macros
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Getting started with Excel macros by using the Macro Recorder Fundamentals of writing VBA code Saving and sharing macros Getting started with User-Defined Functions
K2's 2023 Mastering Advanced Excel Functions
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Powerful new functions and features in Excel, such as XLOOKUP and Dynamic Arrays How to use “legacy” features and functions such as AGGREGATE Creating effective forecasts in Excel
K2's 2023 Integrating Data for Improved Efficiency and Control
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
How to take advantage of the data available to you Managing data, including avoiding duplication Sharing data across multiple applications
Budgeting: Presenting and Communicating your Numbers
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
The ABCs of Advisory Services
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Understanding the concept of “Integrated Planning” (financial, estate, asset protection, and tax planning) Changes in the landscape of a tax practitioner’s practice The bridging of services Getting started – Where do your clients fail? Understanding the primary planning issues for all clients Estate and Gift issues Traps, pitfalls, and tips in planning Practical steps in establishing a tax advisory and wealth management services practice Domicile issues
Auditing For Fraud
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Auditing Fraud
K2's 2023 Next Generation Excel Reporting
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $225
Identifying weaknesses in traditional reporting processes Using leading-edge features in Excel to improve reporting practices How to work with Power Query to solve common reporting challenges Adding Slicers and Timelines to your Excel-based reports
Making the Best of Bad Situations: Tax Planning in a COVID-19 Environment
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $225
The effect COVID-19 on a client’s total financial, estate, and asset protection plan Understanding the issues revolving around the death of a client Understanding medical issues Understanding the tax and non-tax issues in divorce Understanding the tax and non-tax issues in personal bankruptcy, cancellation of debt, foreclosure, repossession, and reporting of bad debts Understanding the tax and non-tax issues of personal relationship matters, such as living together, property rights, premarital agreements, filing status, exemptions, and dependents Understanding the support issues for spouses and former spouses Understanding support issues for children of divorced or separated parents and the tax treatment of back child support Understanding the business issues involved when the parties to a business breaks apart Special issues, such as marital property rules, married versus unmarried tax rate comparisons, head of household status, and treatment of refunds and deficiencies
CFO Series: Audits Begin with The Right Questions: Listen!
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:The need to ask the 'right' questions A core principle of audits not taught in the "textbook". A new type of audit that will simplify your life. Four auditing skills to take you from being a good auditor to being an amazing auditor. The most important element of auditing is listening. Action steps to become a great listener.
K2's 2023 Paperless Office
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $225
The importance of “going paperless” Key technologies that facilitate a paperless office Advantages of going paperless Examples of leading document management systems and processes
Inventory, Expense and Payroll Fraud
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Methods of committing inventory, expense and payroll fraud What to look for when observing inventory Detection of inventory fraud How to recognize fictitious expenses How to recognize altered expenses Indicators of fake documentation The three main reason we ask for documentation Detection and prevention of ghost employees
Better Forecasts: Be a Better Predictor
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Why an open mind and the ability to doubt helps make great predictions Why it is better to be a fox than a hedgehog How non-conformists change the world How to focus on what matters How to learn from the past without hindsight bias
The Essentials of Fringe Benefit Planning
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
An overview of the fringe benefit planning process Understanding the needs of the business owner Understanding the needs of the employees Options under IRC §132 fringe benefit plans Automobile issues Disability issues Dependent care issues Medical issues Long-term care issues Life insurance issues Education issues Expense reimbursement issues Cafeteria plan issues
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
The shift to “predictive accounting” for Decision Making, Planning, and Budgeting Problems with traditional annual budget processes Develop a driver-based “operational budget” based on resource capacity planning Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable Create closed loop capacity plans Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts Integrating enterprise risk management (ERM) with management accounting Applying target costing for cost estimating
Planning in an Uncertain World
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Why great predictions are not intuitive but the result of critical thinking, gathering information and updating predictions when needed How to separate correlation from causation How to recognize and overcome bias Who is Thomas Bayes and why he matters
SAS No. 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit
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Webinar
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
The importance of professional skepticism The dangers of making assumptions How to listen and understanding the answer to a question Why it is important to leave all of your expectations at home Anticipation and why it’s so dangerous Determining materiality The fraud triangle Thinking about, given a set of circumstances, how you would steal Management and the Tone At the Top
Tax, Estate and Financial Aspects of Cryptocurrency
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Introduction to cryptocurrency Understanding the term “blockchain” Various types of cryptocurrencies Why cryptocurrency is popular Investment attributes of cryptocurrency Tax aspects of cryptocurrency Position of the Internal Revenue Service Understanding Notice 2014-21 (IRS Virtual Currency Guidance) Understanding Notice 2014-21 FAQs Compliance issues Charitable issues Internal Revenue Service enforcement
Progressive Management Accounting
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
A taxonomy of accounting: tax, financial, managerial A spectrum of direct and indirect absorption costing Fact-based Data with Activity Based Costing (ABC ) Why do we need advanced management accounting techniques, such as ABC? How the ABC cost assignment network structure connects costs to products and sales channels Learn to use ABC to manage product, service-line, channel, and customer profitability Understand two views of costs: (1) process view versus (2) product view Comparing ABC with time-driven ABC, resource consumption accounting (RCA), lean accounting, and other costing techniques Operational Costing to Optimize Process Costs - How driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts lead to productivity improvement and cost reduction Applying “Attributes” to assess ”value-added costs” and “costs of quality (COQ)” The Shift in ROI’s Source from Tangible to Intangible Assets Increasing the ROI from information – with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) as a Value-Multiplier Accelerating the Rate of Adoption for Implementing and CPM Understand the barriers that slow the adoption rate of CPM: technical, misperceptions, model design, and social / cultural How to overcome behavioral resistance to change