CPE Catalog & Events
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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.
Comprehensive Roth IRA Strategies Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Why Roth-related rules of thumb can be flawed. Questions you can use to evaluate recommendations. SECURE 2.0 changes related to Roth IRA and Roth 401k. Backdoor and Mega-Backdoor Roth.
Federal Tax Update for Individual with Greg and George WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.
SSARS Practice Issues and Standards Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review of applicable SSARS standards, including standards updates. Review of AICPA professional ethics requirements. In-depth discussion of non-attest services. Review of independence issues for SSARS services. Overview of SSARS #21-performance, documentation and other requirements. Detailed analysis of preparation vs. compilation engagements. Detailed analysis of review engagements.
Progressive Management Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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, social, and cultural. How to overcome behavioral resistance to change.
Triple Your Memory, Prevent Dementia and Halve Your Stress - Part 1 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Why the brain can remember some things a hundred times better than others. Why we typically forget names and faces, and what can be done about it. How our emotions follow the motion of our body, and how that can be used to instill instant confidence. How to tap into a completely relaxed and/or confident state of mind in 10 seconds or less using advanced hypnotic conditioning and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques. How to prevent dementia and brain "fog" using specific supplements and exercise. How to stay motivated to use the methods outlined in this course to advance your career and achieve a higher quality of life. How to use the concept of constant learning to help you maintain a balanced and fulfilling.
2024 Year-End Payroll Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Year-end tasks an employer should consider with regards to payroll. Bonus runs and fringe benefit reporting. Compliance reporting and W-2 reconciliations. Updates to payroll wage rates and limits. Current issues affecting payroll. Best practices for not only year-end, but year-round compliance.
Federal Tax Update for Business with Greg and George WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.
Better Forecasts: Be a Better Predictor WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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.
Triple Your Memory, Prevent Dementia and Halve Your Stress - Part 2 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How our emotions follow the motion of our body, and how that can be used to instill instant confidence. How to tap into a completely relaxed and/or confident state of mind in 10 seconds or less using advanced hypnotic conditioning and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques. How to stay motivated to use the methods outlined in this course to advance your career and achieve a higher quality of life. How to use the concept of constant learning to help you maintain a balanced and fulfilling lifestyle.
Fraud in the Nonprofit Environment WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Prevalence of fraud in nonprofit organizations. Misappropriation and strategies for prevention. Misuse of government funds: how to identify and impact on revenue recognition. Cyber-related fraud targeting nonprofit organizations.
How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Team dynamics. Influence. Organizational behavior. Leadership.
Common Audit and Financial Reporting Deficiencies in State and Local Governments WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Financial statement preparation. Common mistakes made in preparing financial statements. GASB financial statement preparation standards.
Getting Started with ESG WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definitions of ESG. Business benefits of ESG. Reporting methods. Getting started with ESG initiatives.
AI and Data Analytics for Auditing - The Big Picture WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Data analytics and AI in auditing and accounting.
Washington Sales Tax With Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Sales tax basics. Includable gross income, accruing the use tax, exemptions, interstate, and foreign sales. Special areas, including construction activities and information technology.
Pricing on Purpose: The Eight Steps to Implementing Value Pricing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
First and second law of pricing and how they influence your pricing decisions. How the anchoring and framing effects influence pricing. What and how people buy. Handling price objections. Proper project management. Facilitating a pricing after action review. Importance of price psychology and emotions. Why your firm should offer a value guarantee. How hourly billing is a suboptimal pricing strategy.
Real Estate Taxation WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
California property taxation-updated in light of Proposition 19 passage. Qualified business income deductions [IRC Sec. 199A]. Opportunity zone deferral related to real estate [IRC Sec. 1400Z-2]. Passive activities loss rules [IRC Sec. 469]. Real estate professional rules [IRC Sec. 469(c)(7)]. Interest expense deduction rules [IRC Sec. 163]. Home sale exclusion [IRC Sec. 121]. 1031 exchanges. Estate planning and gifting with real estate.
Financial Reporting: Miscellaneous Topics-U.S. GAAP vs IFRS WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Inventories. PPE. Intangible assets. Investment property. Impairment of assets. Financial instruments. Provisions. Leases. Income taxes.
Advanced Management and Leadership Essentials Mini-Course WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Leading Others. Coaching and Developing Staff. Building Leadership Communication Skills. Helping the Firm Grow.
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