CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Individual and Financial-Planning Tax Camp
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $299
Comprehensive coverage of the SECURE Act 2.0 Understanding the environment: what’s new, what’s expired or expiring, and what’s likely to change Reading a tax return for developing client-specific tax strategies Will there be more changes in the individual tax laws? Changes to the lifetime estate tax exemption in light of proposed regulations The net investment income tax: planning for compliance Family income-splitting strategies that need to be considered Income tax issues: impact on timing of other income Selling a principal residence Two principal residences at the same time Use of life insurance to protect families Using Roth IRAs and Roth contribution programs to best advantage Conversions: do they still make sense? Taking distributions: matching timing to client requirements Qualified plan contributions to reduce current income and Social Security tax: implications for business owners and self-employed Social Security solvency issues Incentive Stock Options and Employee Stock Purchase Plan considerations What to do about itemized deductions Trans-generational planning: conversions, income, and gain-splitting Tax benefits of HSAs and other tax-advantaged acccounts Recent case law, as applicable Identifying tax opportunities: reviewing the prior-year return to develop a plan for the future Planning for middle-income taxpayers: financial planning for the young, the working, and those approaching or in retirement
Surgent's S Corporation Core Tax Issues From Formation Through Liquidation
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
What exactly is terminating S corporations, including recent rulings Schedules K-2 and K-3 reporting requirements and filing exceptions Form 7203, S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations Shareholder changes Living Trust and causes S termination LLCs electing S status, changing agreement could terminate election Inherited a new client with reporting errors? What are my options? Debt vs. equity and §385; Federal Express battled and won, how do we? Are we to expect SECA tax on pass-through entities? Shareholders losing “substance over form” argument Basis neither increased by phantom income, nor reduced by non-deducted pass-through losses Can I accrue expenses payable to a shareholder? Sure, but can I deduct them? How §179 limitations affect S corp. basis Comparison of liquidation of a C corporation vs. the liquidation of an S corporation Did not timely file Form 2553? A simple method to correct Is there a “flexible standard of law” in regard to closely held entities?
Walter Haig's Personal Financial Health Checkup
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $239
The topics that will be covered in this course include:Preparing a personal financial statement following U.S. GAAPRecasting U.S. GAAP personal financial statements into powerful management toolsIdentifying key financial factors that must be managed in order to achieve financial self-sufficiencyKey personal planning documents including HIPAA Medical Disclosure Document, Living Will, Medical Durable Power of Attorneys, and Letter of Instruction at DeathHow to create "goal" statements that achieve results
Project Management: Getting the Best Out of Your Team
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:When to incorporate project management best practices to get the best out of your teamFive ways project management helps get the best out of your team
Responding To Retaliation Concerns and Capturing Key Retaliation Case Metrics
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Speak up Culture Ethical Culture Internal complaint reporting and investigations
6 Practical Strategies To Promote Diversity & Inclusion In Your Workplace
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Communication Leadership Character Behavior
Business Communication Essentials (Dynamic Communication in the Workplace)
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Communication Feedback Management Leadership
The Controllership Series - The Financial Close Process
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Webinar
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $59
Accounting Finance Financial Statements
Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Digital Forensics
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Webinar
1.80 Credits
Member Price: $59
Forensic Accounting Accounting Auditing Finance
Ethics in the Real World - Living Values for Today
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Four root causes of unethical business behavior Eight steps to create an ethical business environment 1. Establish a code of conduct and make it public 2. Hire and promote people with a well-grounded sense of personal ethics 3. Interpret your code for ordinary circumstances 4. Communicate expectations for employees to act in an ethical manner 5. Lead by example 6. Teach employees the basic tools of ethical decision making 7. Back your code with enforcement 8. Factor values into every important organizational activity and decision The financial manager’s responsibility to lead and implement good ethics in his/her organization
2024 Crypto, Blockchain and Taxes
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Understanding Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Major Features, Benefits and Risks of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Tax Strategies for Cryptocurrency Transactions and Compliance Implementing Blockchain in Business Accounting Systems Navigating Estate Planning with Digital Assets
Excel - Advanced Financial and Statistical Calculations
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Financial functions best practices for creating amortization schedules and calculating annual interest paymentsCalculating & summarizing data with SUMIF and SUBTOTAL functions Statistical functions used to analyze data
K2's 2024 Getting Started With Artificial Intelligence
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Understanding AI tools available today Creating accounts in AI platforms Querying data from AI platforms Customizing your AI subscriptions
Surgent's Handling Difficult People
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Problem solving step process for handling difficult people Effective communication techniques including active listening and phraseology Scripting what you say to prepare to engage with a difficult person Emotions and their impact: mine and theirs
Surgent's Implementing the New Risk Assessment Standard
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
The performance of risk assessment procedures to attain the knowledge needed to assess risk How the auditor identifies and assesses the risks of material misstatement The new “stand-back” requirements related to risk assessment
Surgent's Understanding Partnership Taxation: PTE Elections, 754 Elections, and Selling a Partnership Interest
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Notice 2020-75: PTE elections What is a 754 election? What if a 754 election is not in effect? Tax implications of a partnership interest sale on the seller Look-through provisions
Gamed: Why Performance Targets and Incentives Fail and How to Fix Them
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
10-step ROKET-DS system, a simple structured method for designing meaningful targets and incentives which will help you ... Create targets and objectives that align with your strategy Build engagement with your target owners Test your targets and incentives rigorously for unexpected outcomes and dangerous loopholes
The Controllership Series - Managerial Accounting Basics and Costs
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Webinar
1.20 Credits
Member Price: $39
Accounting Finance
CFO Series: Tactics to Improve Bottom Line: 1st Improve ROI
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Introduction to the three levers - Income, Asset Utilization, and Risk.Cost controlWaste eliminationLean, Total Quality Management, and Six Sigma.Simplification - A case study in how complexity is an insidious profit killer.Activity based costing.Understanding what drives cost and how to control cost.Accounting practices that are antithetical to good cost control.Getting the message across and generating action.Where are the good ideas buried?Increasing volumeHow effective is your advertising and promotion?What is your unique selling proposition?Are you stifling innovation?PricingPricing for value not cost recovery.Understanding competition.Looking for the 'blue ocean' opportunity.
Achieve Competency in Three Basic Tool Categories - Master the Fundamentals
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Tools for FSA The 3 P's. The QST trifecta The integrated planning model Performance based management The value chain The balanced scorecard