CPE Catalog & Events
2024 A Practitioner's Guide to IRAs and Qualified Retirement Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Traditional and Roth IRAs: Understanding retirement savings options. SEP and SIMPLE IRAs: Exploring retirement plans for small businesses. Qualified Plans: Navigating employer-sponsored retirement plans. Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans: Comparing retirement plan structures.401(k) Plans: Maximizing benefits with employer-sponsored options. Retirement Plan Selection: Choosing the best plan for individual client needs. Minimum Distribution Rules: Ensuring compliance and understanding withdrawal regulations. Tax Implications: Analyzing the tax consequences of retirement plan decisions. Retirement Planning Strategies: Implementing effective strategies for client financial goals.
The Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax and Dynasty Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Calculation of the GST tax, and how it relates to the estate tax and gift tax. Direct skips, taxable distributions, and taxable terminations. GST tax allocations, Reverse QTIP election, and Exempt and Nonexempt Trusts. Calculating the benefit of and designing Dynasty Trusts.
ChatGPT and Advanced Financial Analysis for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Financial modeling with ChatGPT integration. Advanced ratio analysis techniques. Risk assessment and scenario analysis. Valuation methods and ChatGPT applications. Utilizing performance metrics in financial analysis. Data analysis and interpretation with ai. Investment analysis enhanced by ChatGPT.
2024 Common Deficiencies in SSARS Engagements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Preparation. Compilation. Review.
Leadershift: How to Embrace Disruption and Lead Change WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Why it is critical to lead change in your company now. The seven steps of leading change. How to set expectations. How to create a vision that achieves buy-in. How to form a coalition, an essential component of any change effort. How to create and mobilize change networks to accelerate change. The best of the best communication strategies. How to establish simple 360 feedback. Managing yourself.
2024 Accounting and Auditing Update for Small Businesses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
FRF for SMEs. Quality management. Private Company Council.
CyberPsychology: Conquering Insider Threat WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Exploiting control gaps and control weaknesses. Psychological tactics used in attacks. A review of robust controls. Data access observables, changes in network patterns. A review of the audit, HR, IT and management relationships. Proactive approaches to recognize evolving risks and avoid breaches,
K2's Small Business Internal Controls, Security, And Fraud Prevention And Detection WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Common challenges associated with implementing appropriate internal controls in small business environments. Fraud in small business environments. Internal control options in small business accounting software. Understanding the need for application controls and general controls.
Dealing With IRS Appeals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Opportunities for appealing IRS actions. Preparing the case for an appeal. Best strategies for handling appeals. Alternate dispute resolution options before and after the appeal. Appeals of collection and penalty determinations. Understanding state appeals for income, sales and employment taxes
Estate Planning: A Comprehensive Overview WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Intestate succession and probate administration. Holding title to assets. Lifetime asset transfers and testamentary asset transfer planning. Structures to avoid or minimize transfer taxes. Living trusts, including A-B and A-B-C, life insurance trusts, terminating irrevocable trusts, use of trust protectors, trust administration during incapacity and post-mortem.
Communication Skills for Introverts WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The five areas to improve your communication. Understanding your audience. Virtual communication. Non-verbal Communication.
Asset Misappropriation - Let Me Count the Ways WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Identifying opportunity. The three most common behavioral red flags that we should always look for. The many ways to commit check fraud (it's so easy). Why inventory is such a good place to hide theft of assets. How to cover up inventory fraud. Accounts receivable fraud and how it works. How to count inventory that's not there.
Tax Elections: Beware of the Minefield WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Tax elections for various entities. Tax elections relevant for accounting matters. Tax elections involving special items.
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.
FASB Update: What's New? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
FASB's current activities. ASUs issued. Workplan agenda.
Fraud Busters: Controls to Prevent and Detect Fraud WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fraud motivators - the fraud triangle, typical profiles of fraud perpetrators. Revisiting the basics of controls - design vs effectiveness, preventative vs. detective. Entity-wide controls and how they can assist in fraud deterrence. Specific fraud types and the controls that could prevent and detect them.
AI and You WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Leadership. Future of work. Workforce planning. Change management. Technology in HR. Job redesign.
Prix Fixe: Economic Update: Believe What You are Experiencing, Not What You are Hearing WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
U.S. and regional economies.
Balancing Employee and Employer Rights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.4 Credits
Customary management functions. Delegation of authority. Implementing changes in terms of employment. Fundamental duties owed to employer.
Promote Internal Whistleblowing and Succeed in Creating a Strong Speak Up Culture WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Speak up culture. Encouraging internal whistleblowing. Internal complaint reporting processes.
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