CPE Catalog & Events
Pacific Tax Institute 2024
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Bellevue
16.0 Credits
Federal Tax Update & Business Tax Update with George and Greg: Stay ahead of the curve as Greg White and George Koutelieris, two of the most respected voices in tax, provide critical updates and insights into the ever-changing federal tax regulations along with the latest developments in business tax. This session will cover essential changes and strategies that CPAs need to stay compliant and advise their clients effectively in today's dynamic tax landscape. Enjoy a full 100 minutes of expert content from George and Greg, packed with actionable insights and updates you won’t want to miss! Inside the IRS: Navigating Tax Controversies with Chuck Rettig: Gain insider knowledge from former IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig as he shares strategies to tackle audits, disputes, and complex tax issues, and helps you navigate the evolving challenges of IRS tax controversies. Mitigating Legal Exposure: Identifying Hidden Risks in Client Advisory with Derek Jarski: Learn how to identify and address hidden issues that can escalate into costly legal problems, ensuring your clients are protected and your advisory skills are sharpened. Understanding Estate Planning with Avery Frank: Dive deep into lifetime and testamentary strategies tailored for estates valued between $3 million and $15 million, equipping you with the knowledge to offer strategic estate planning advice. Strategic Insights into 1031 Exchanges with Mary Foster: Uncover the intricacies of 1031 exchanges and learn how to leverage this powerful tool to optimize real estate portfolios and defer capital gains taxes. 529 Plans: Dream Ahead and Maximize Tax Savings for Education: Learn about the 529 updates with Andrea Michaels, AAMS, CRPC of Edward Jones. Join Sam Mansour on Achieving Work/Life Balance in a Demanding CPA Environment (Tedx Spokane): In the fast-paced world of accounting, maintaining a healthy work/life balance is essential for long-term success and well-being. You'll discover the importance of balance for personal and professional growth. This session will equip you with practical strategies to manage time effectively, reduce stress, and prioritize your personal life while meeting the demands of your CPA role. By the end, you'll develop a personalized plan to sustain high performance, prevent burnout, and achieve greater satisfaction in both your career and personal life. Nexus Rules: What Every CPA Should Know: Mike Roben will provide essential insights into the ever-evolving landscape of state tax nexus rules. In this session, you'll explore the complexities of nexus laws, understand how they apply to businesses operating across state lines, and learn practical strategies for compliance. Whether you're advising clients or managing your own firm's tax obligations, this session will equip you with the knowledge to navigate sales and income tax nexus, avoid common pitfalls, and stay ahead of regulatory changes. Perfect for CPAs looking to strengthen their expertise in multi-state taxation! Breakout Session with KBKG: Tangible Property Regulations or Research and Development Credit: Dive into the intricacies of tangible property regulations and how they impact businesses. This session will provide clarity on the latest IRS guidelines, helping CPAs navigate capital versus expense decisions, compliance with safe harbor rules, and the overall impact on tax planning strategies. Or choose to join KBKG for another session as they explore the ins and outs of the Research and Development Tax Credit. This session will break down eligibility requirements, recent updates, and strategies to maximize benefits. The Chevron Ruling: Redefining Tax Compliance and Planning: This session will provide an in-depth analysis of the far-reaching implications of the landmark Chevron decision on tax compliance and planning strategies. This session will cover how the ruling impacts regulatory interpretation, the role of administrative agencies in tax law, and the new challenges it poses for CPAs and tax professionals. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how to adapt their tax strategies to remain compliant and leverage the changes for future planning. Don't miss this opportunity to stay ahead of evolving tax regulations and ensure your advisory services are aligned with the latest legal standards. Check back for agenda updates as sessions are confirmed!
Emerging Leaders Workshop 2024
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Bellevue
8.0 Credits
Key Benefits for Participants and Their Organizations: Build a Strong Professional Brand: Participants will learn to craft a strengths-based personal brand that stands out and effectively communicates their value, enhancing their leadership potential within your organization. Learn from Industry Leaders: Gain practical insights from a panel of successful professionals who have used their strengths to drive measurable results, providing participants with actionable strategies to apply immediately in their roles. Enhance Team Collaboration: Participants will learn how to apply strengths-based frameworks to foster more cohesive and high-performing teams, leading to better collaboration and productivity across your organization. Develop Leadership Skills that Drive Results: Through interactive exercises, participants will sharpen strategic thinking and emotional intelligence—essential tools for making sound decisions, fostering resilience, and driving results that benefit your entire organization. Stay Ahead of Industry Trends: Participants will gain insights into the latest developments in accounting and leadership, helping your organization stay competitive and well-positioned for future growth Build Organizational Resilience: Equip your team with tools to create a resilient, adaptive work environment where employees thrive, fostering long-term organizational success and stability.
Not-For-Profit Conference 2024
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Bellevue
17.0 Credits
FASB update. Board buy-in and board training. Single audit update Updates to state and local tax Solutions to enhance your audit readiness. AI tools for accountants can revolutionize your practice And more!
Fraud Conference 2024
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Bellevue
8.0 Credits
Dive deep into real-world fraud investigations and explore the latest trends in white-collar crime. Gain invaluable insights that can help safeguard your organization against fraudsters. Explore strategies to foster behavioral change in your team, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity protocols and protecting your organization from potential threats.
Member Exclusive: Annual Meeting Recap WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
A comprehensive overview of the crucial topics and table discussions.
Prix Fixe: Developing Business in Challenging Times WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The five basics of business development in hard times Strategies for things you can implement now to move business forward Tips for maintaining a positive mindset even when difficulties arise How to gain clarity on your niche markets Learn how to articulate your value to key audiences Identify champions to help you build business faster
Member Exclusive: The Cross Generational Divide
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Empowering multi-generational collaboration.
Employer's Handbook: Health Care, Retirement, and Fringe Benefit Tax Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
ERISA compliance: employee welfare plans and qualified plans. Fringe benefit issues: COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care. Health care plans: HRAs, HSAs, and other employer-sponsored plans. Qualified plan requirements: eligibility, coverage, and vesting.
The Complete Guide to Estate Administrations: Navigating the Role in Estate Planning WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Exploring key considerations and challenges in estate settlement. Understanding the process of asset collection and accounting in estate administration. Navigating the assessment of debts and creditors for estate settlements. Understanding the process and implications of creditor payments in estate administration. Identifying and addressing distribution challenges in estate administration. Understanding the intricacies and implications of probate in estate administration. Exploring the challenges and resolutions related to will contests. Learning the process and significance of conducting asset inventories. Recognizing the fiduciary duties and responsibilities in estate administration. Navigating the complexities of protecting the rights of various stakeholders in estate administration. Understanding the implications of federal estate tax in estate administration. Identifying state death tax issues and their impact on estate administration. Grappling with ancillary estate administration matters and their implications. Understanding the complexities of fiduciary accounting in estate administration. Addressing unique and special considerations related to trusts in estate administration.
Prix Fixe: Exempt vs. Non-Exempt: Identifying Employee Classification WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Employee classification.
IRS Audit and Appeals Process: Protecting Your Clients WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Establishing rapport with the auditor. IRS audit statistics, appeals statistics, and other statistics. Preparing for the audit. Preparing for an appeal. Questions to ask the auditor. Getting copies of the auditor's workpaper file.
The Washington Capital Gains Tax WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Washington capital gains tax.
Prix Fixe: Greatest Fraud Threats to Businesses WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Detecting fraudulent activity within financial statements. Fraud risks. Consequences of fraud.
Forensic Accounting: Fraud Investigations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Evidence in the investigative process. Tools used in forensic investigations. Conducting interviews. Forensic accounting reports. Expert witness testimony.
Surgent's Handbook for Mastering Basis, Distributions, and Loss Limitation Issues for S Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation. Applicable coverage of any basis considerations within any recent tax legislation. Passthrough basis calculations required as attachments to certain individual returns. Executor's form for disclosing basis in certain distributed property. How Schedule 179 limitations affect basis and how tax-benefit rule is applied. Basis implications of personal assets converted to business use. How to calculate basis of inherited qualified and joint tenancy property. Recognize how AAA applies or doesn't apply to S corporations. Learn to apply the complex basis ordering rules and special elections that can have a big tax result. Learn the detailed rules of Schedule 704 for preventing the shifting of tax consequences among partners or members. Learn to calculate basis under Schedule 704 and for "at-risk" under Schedule 465. Recognize how recourse, nonrecourse, and qualified nonrecourse debt can create significantly different tax results. Review Schedule 754 step-up in basis rules.
Annual FASB Update and Review WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Private company standard setting activities. Recent FASB Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs). Topic 842, Leases, ASC 326: CECL.
CFO - Chief Reviewer WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The need to think before we react. Look and listen effectively! Evaluate using multiple different criteria. Communicate. Problem solving, not just problem identification. Demonstrate empathy. Think critically, and not be critical. Being skeptical without being cynical. Unconventional keys to success. 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. Be prepared and aware of tax savings alternatives. Tax reduction strategies. Depreciation and fixed asset schedules. How to recognize and ward off tax schemes, Consequences of failure to plan. Why do shortcuts cause even more issues?
How to Settle a Client's Estate WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Issues involved when settling an estate. Explaining the needs and limitations of durable powers of attorney, health care directives, and living wills. Why a will is probated, and on what grounds it may be challenged. Comprehensive checklists on how to read a will, duties of an executor and trustee, and much more. Identification and report of estate assets. What to do and what not to do as a fiduciary, executor, or trustee. How executors and trustees interact with beneficiaries. Elective shares, and when a spouse might make that choice. What a trustee needs to know about incompetents and minors. Rights of creditors, third parties, and beneficiaries. Key issues in transferring property to a trust and from a trust or estate to a beneficiary. Identifying income, estate, and inheritance taxes. Fiduciary accounting - principal and income concepts. An introduction to drafting an account, and why it is relevant. Administration of revocable trusts. Estate basis reporting.
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.
Prix Fixe: Single Audit: Navigating Compliance WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Critical aspects of Single Audit compliance. Complexities of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Compliance Supplement. Recent changes in compliance requirements.
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