CPE Catalog & Events
SAS No. 122, AU 315, Understanding the Entity and Its Environment and Assessing the Risks of Material Misstatement WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
The importance of professional skepticism. The dangers of making assumptions. How to listen and understand the answer to a question. Why it is important to leave all of your expectations at home. Anticipation and why it's so dangerous. Determining materiality. The fraud triangle. Thinking about, given a set of circumstances, how you would steal. Management and the tone at the top.
Fraud Risk and Audit Requirements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fraud trends. Audit requirements related to fraud.
Is It Time to Abandon Traditional Investment Planning Strategies? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding and assessing risk and return, and matching to expected return. Investment vehicles. Designing an asset allocation portfolio in today's environment for different stages of life. Solidify an appropriate investment strategy based on risk. Helping clients stay on top of potentially life-altering situations. Help clients understand the intricacies of investment planning. Investment markets and the effects of world events. Dealing with increasing client concerns.
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.
Prix Fixe: Public Accounting Talent: How Hire Fast With Confidence WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Hiring quickly and confidently.
Practical Accounting Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
New rules in the accounting arena. SQMS. NOCLAR rules. Cybersecurity. New audit standards.
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.
Emotional Intelligence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Emotions. Relationships.
Appreciation Intelligence: The New AI WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Languages of appreciation. Appreciation strategies.
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.
Comprehensive Roth IRA Strategies Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Why Roth-related rules of thumb can be flawed. Questions you can use to evaluate recommendations. SECURE 2.0 changes related to Roth IRA and Roth 401k. Backdoor and Mega-Backdoor Roth.
Federal Tax Update for Individual with Greg and George WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.
SSARS Practice Issues and Standards Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review of applicable SSARS standards, including standards updates. Review of AICPA professional ethics requirements. In-depth discussion of non-attest services. Review of independence issues for SSARS services. Overview of SSARS #21-performance, documentation and other requirements. Detailed analysis of preparation vs. compilation engagements. Detailed analysis of review engagements.
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.
Triple Your Memory, Prevent Dementia and Halve Your Stress - 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.
2024 Year-End Payroll Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Year-end tasks an employer should consider with regards to payroll. Bonus runs and fringe benefit reporting. Compliance reporting and W-2 reconciliations. Updates to payroll wage rates and limits. Current issues affecting payroll. Best practices for not only year-end, but year-round compliance.
Federal Tax Update for Business with Greg and George WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.
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.
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