CPE Catalog & Events
How Fraud Can Affect Smaller Organizations WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The reasons for fraud. Fraudulent acts that are initiated against smaller organizations. Methods to stop fraud attempts against small businesses.
Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The auditor's responsibilities for fraud when performing an audit as contained in AU-C 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit. Reviewing the components of the fraud triangle. A fraud prevention checklist to be used by auditors and shared with their clients. A review of how selected fraud were uncovered in small and medium size entities, including for-profit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and governmental entities. Other important matters covered in AU-C 240.
Minimizing Workplace Warfare WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Sources of workplace conflict. Conflict resolution strategies. Communication skills and active listening. Conflict management techniques.
Achieving Balance in Work and Life - 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.
Coaching Leaders to Handle Sensitive Employee Relations Situations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Employee complaints. Personality and attitude problems. Performance counseling. Personal hygiene problems. Disability related performance issues. Misconduct due to mental conditions
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Why you should be thinking about inclusion. How racism impacts your workplace at all. Where you might be vulnerable and unaware.
6 Practical Strategies To Promote Diversity and Inclusion In Your Workplace WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Leadership. Character. Behavior.
Business Communication Essentials - Dynamic Communication in the Workplace WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Feedback. Management. Leadership.
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.
Gamed: Why Performance Targets and Incentives Fail and How to Fix Them WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Learn about the10-step ROKET-DS system, a simple structured method for designing meaningful targets and incentives. 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.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Understanding and Appreciating Our Differences WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Emotional intelligence. Communication. Teamwork.
The Future of Communication: How AI and Synthetic Media Can Transform Your Business WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
Communication. Technology. AI. Synthetic media. Strategy. Leadership. Management. Time management. Productivity.
Collaborative Communications: Working with Diverse Styles WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
Communications.
Health Insurance Planning WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The interrelationship of health, happiness and financial well-being. Tax planning for health care costs. The failures and successes of the Affordable Care Act medical insurance terminology, alternatives and strategies for selecting the best option. The pros and cons of health savings accounts.
Negotiation Strategy: What to do Before, During and After WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.8 Credits
Negotiation.
Planning in an Uncertain World WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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.
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.
K2's 2023 Accessing And Managing Data In Excel WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Using Power Query to link data into Excel. Manipulating Excel data with data transformations. Creating data models using Power Query. Examples of common and useful transformations.
Audit 102: Professional Skepticism - Finding Fraud and Error WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The importance of professional skepticism, especially when performing audit or other attest services. Specific fraud responsibilities in a financial statement audit. The varying levels of persuasiveness of evidence to support assurance conclusions or opinions.
Understanding the Form 990 and its Preparation Prerequisites WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of the Form 990's design and goals in play upon the Core Form and tack-on Schedules. Address of the definition's key factors that make a third-party organization a "related organization." Exploring the definitions of parties who are to be disclosed as managers at Part VII-A and understanding what is the definition and measure of "reportable compensation." Working with the definitions of "family member" and "independence" as same are used in Parts VI and Schedule L. Applying the definition of "business relationship" as same is used in Part VI. Sequencing of the form's preparation tasks and who to go to for information. Working with the Board of Directors to have them understand what the completed Form 990 conveys to the public/regulators.
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