CPE Catalog & Events
Member Exclusive: Navigating the Stress of Busy Season: Veteran Insights for Peak Performance WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
A comprehensive look at managing workloads effectively, supporting staff, maintaining client satisfaction, and prioritizing mental well-being during high-pressure periods.
Prix Fixe: Auditing: Assessing Materiality and Risk WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Assessing materiality and risk. Gathering audit evidence.
Prix Fixe: Fraud in the Digital Age WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Fraud prevalence and mitigation strategies.
The Needed Focus on Cyber Security WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding cybersecurity. Policies, procedures, and control measures to secure and enhance cyber operations.
Prix Fixe: Basic Concepts of Personal Financial Planning WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Financial planning. Budgeting. Saving strategies. Investment fundamentals. Retirement planning.
2025 Washington State CPA Ethics by Jim Rigos WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An increased sensitivity for factual situations leading to accounting ethical issues and potential legal dilemmas. More confidence in your personal and professional accounting ethical judgments. Familiarity with AICPA and Washington State Board ethical reporting and compliance procedures with particular emphasis on different or elevated Washington treatment. This course contains case study scenarios demonstrating numerous actual reported Board cases. Identifying dollar claim and possible risk reduction techniques and procedures of potential client or third party legal or ethical claims. 4 hours of CPE credit approved by the Washington State Board of Accountancy.
Member Exclusive: The Art of Constructive Feedback WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Constructive feedback.
The Washington Capital Gains Tax WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Washington capital gains tax.
Project Management for Finance Professionals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Project management is a way of thinking and managing. Identifying projects, needs, objectives, and deliverables. Project feasibility evaluation. Life cycle of a project. What causes projects to fail. Establishing the project scope and preventing "project creep." Defining and managing stakeholders. Organizational politics and conflict management. Establishing the detailed schedule. Introduction to project management software.
Prix Fixe: Charitable Registration: What Does it Take to be Compliant? WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The U.S. state charitable registration requirements. online fundraising compliance. Why compliance should be a priority. Registration costs. How to manage registrations.
Assessing the Risk of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The fraud landscape in the United States. Fraud risk procedures as updated by recently issued standards. Most likely fraud types found in small to mid-sized entities. Internal controls to prevent and detect fraud. What to do when fraud is identified or suspected. Case studies based on recent frauds. Cyber fraud schemes and how to prevent and detect them. Analytics that can be used as fraud risk procedures. Assessing the risk of grant fraud in a Single Audit.
Prix Fixe: 2025 Audit Findings for Finance Leaders WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Why internal audit. Research and business environment. Cybersecurity. Digital disruption. ESG. Business continuity. 2025-2027 outlook.
2025 Rules, Regulations and Ethics for CPAs in Washington with Thomas Neill WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Washington State statute and rules. Update for 2023.
Examining ASC 842, Leases: More Than Meets the Eye WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Overall lease accounting guidance. Lessor Accounting 101. Lessee Accounting 101. Detailed review of accounting by lessees and lessors. Sale and leaseback transactions. Transition guidance. Other operational issues. Recently issued updates to the lease accounting guidance. FASB guidance on accounting for COVID-19-related rent concessions. Feedback from the public company adoption of Topic 842.
Interpreting the New Revenue Recognition Standard: What All CPAs Need to Know WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
5-step process for recognizing revenue.
Project Management: Tips, Tricks, and Traps WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Contrasting project management with operations management. Reviewing organizational culture and how it applies to project management. The various types of project management including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Critical path, and others. Looking at risk management software and its application in different types of project management. Managing and leading project management stakeholders.
How AI is Automating Internal Control WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
An explanation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
Winning the Fraud Battle in the Digital Age: Prevention and Detection WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The price of fraud - ACFE's Report to the Nations and ancillary costs. The current economy - microeconomics and analysis. COSO internal control framework, particularly Principle 1 (integrity/ethics) and Principle 8 (fraud risk assessments). Power of morale - shrinking the fraud triangle and employee motivation. Deviant workplace behavior. Historic schemes. Why good folks go bad - interesting findings and red flags. Combating fraud with controls. Controls used by fraud victim organizations and suggestions for better implementation. Fraud's new frontier. Corporate social, environmental, governance, and equity/inclusion reports and audits.
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.
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.
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