CPE Catalog & Events
Partnership and LLCs Tax Return Preparation WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
IRS audits. Allocations and basis. Proper reporting. Valuation of closely held business interests.
Prix Fixe: Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs): A Risk Management Perspective WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Techniques to minimize risk in financial statement engagements. AR-C Section 70, "Preparation of Financial Statements." Positive and negative attributes of the "adverse conclusion" report introduced in SSARS No. 25. Recent activities of the AICPA's Accounting and Review Services Committee.
Inspector Gadget Technology Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Emerging technologies. AI and RPA. Blockchain and 5G. Gears and gadgets. Internet-of-Things.
A Better Way to Choose Your KPIs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
KPIs. Performance measures. Metrics.
Employment Law 101 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Title VII. Americans With Disabilities Act. Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Family Medical Leave Act. Fair Labor Standards Act. Equal Pay Act. National Labor Relations Act. Fair Credit Reporting Act.
K2's 2023 Safeguarding Taxpayer Data - A Guide For Your Required Security Plan WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understand the need to protect client data. Learn about the required security and privacy standards. Leave with a sample plan to consider your tax practice.
10 Ways to Create Delighted Clients and More Referrals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Communicate more powerfully with clients and other CPA's by understanding human behavior. How to judge if your communication is effective in motivating someone. How to create trust and get people to like working with you - inside and outside the firm. The 3 most important keys for getting someone to feel rapport with you. Why rapport is so important, and how to use it to profit in your work. How to quickly solve problems with people once you have their rapport. Secret techniques that super-successful communicators use. How to persuade people without them knowing they are being persuaded. The three most important keys all successful communicators use. Why great service is better for your business in the long run. How to know what's most important to your client or boss-so you can focus on that.
Building Your Own Library of Anti-fraud and Continuous Monitoring Tests WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Build your own forensic data analytics tests around vendors, customers or employees. Expand your knowledge and library of available anti-fraud tests and behavioral algorithms. Align the right tests to the appropriate risks. Practical applications and use cases.
Tired of Feeling Drained by Complainers? Build Your Immunity to People's Negativity WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Emotional intelligence. Management skills. Teamwork. Customer relations.
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.
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.
Walkin', Talkin', Lookin' and Listenin' - Or Things Most of Us Don't Do Well WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The importance of making yourself available. How to start a conversation and what to NOT talk about. The art of how to listen. When you don't understand what they just said. Don't fool by equivocations when they respond to a question. Materiality and perception.
Up Your Influence: How To Get What You Want WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
Persuasion. Influence.
What's Your Brand Reputation? Determine and Drive How Others See You WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
Presence.
Are Those Independent Contractors Really Independent Contractors? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Classification of workers as employees or independent contractors.
The Role of HR in Business Sustainability WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.2 Credits
What is "sustainability" in business today? SHRM publications about sustainability. Sustainability for the world, organizations and individuals. Key HR opportunities for promoting sustainability to improve performance and reduce risk.
Inventory, Expense and Payroll Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
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 reasons we ask for documentation. Detection and prevention of ghost employees.
Mastering Charitable Remainder Trusts and Form 5227 Compliance WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to Charitable Remainder Trusts (CRTs). Types of CRTs and their benefits. Formation and funding of CRTs. Identifying suitable candidates for CRTs. Understanding Form 5227: an overview. Line-by-line breakdown of Form 5227. Reporting trust assets and income. Distributions and charitable beneficiaries. Compliance updates and recent changes to Form 5227. Best practices for accurate completion and filing.
Strategies for Guiding Clients Through Challenging Situations: Tax Insights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Navigating the tax and non-tax dimensions of divorce. Unveiling tax and non-tax considerations in personal bankruptcy, debt cancellation, foreclosure, repossession, and bad debt reporting. Exploring the tax and non-tax aspects of personal relationship matters, encompassing cohabitation, property rights, premarital agreements, filing status, exemptions, and dependents. Grasping the intricacies of support considerations for spouses and former spouses. Addressing support matters for children of divorced or separated parents, alongside the tax treatment of back child support. Delving into the business implications in instances of business dissolution. Tackling specialized topics, including marital property rules, tax rate comparisons for married and unmarried individuals, head of household status, and treatment of refunds and deficiencies.
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.
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