CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Top 10 Tax Topics This Year WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Tax guide to exit planning. Partnership considerations: Section 754 elections and section 743. C to S corporation conversions. Recurring basis issues. At-risk basis rules and Form 6198. New developments relating to IRS audits. Status of audits for high-income and high-net-worth individuals. The 2023 Dirty Dozen. Residency and domicile. Crowdfunding: basic economics and related tax consequences. Choosing the right business entity.
Social Media: The Bare Necessities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Social media. Marketing. Publicity. Public relations. Business strategy.
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.
Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
GASB pronouncements. Single Audit issues. Yellow Book issues. Audit issues. Federal funding challenges.
Auditing Standards and Audit Quality WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Key upcoming Accounting Standards Update (ASU) Adoption dates. FASB agenda. PCC activity and standards. New risks. Recent ASU's in the last year.
Payroll Essentials: Payroll Returns Done Right WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to common payroll taxes and related payroll forms. Filing out, reconciling, and filing payroll returns. Due dates and filing requirements.
101 Tax Planning Ideas WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Planning opportunities in the tax formula. Different types of planning. Frequently used planning techniques. Qualitative and quantitative considerations. The connection between tax planning and other financial planning areas, such as retirement, investment, insurance, and estate planning. Looking to the past, present, and future as we plan.
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.
Form 709 Guidance: Gift Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Returns WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Review of sample returns with illustrations of most forms of gifts. How to meet the adequate disclosure requirements. Community property gifts vs. gift splitting, use of DSUEA from a pre-deceased spouse. Electing in or out of GST allocations with indirect skips.
Prix Fixe: Be More Productive in 2025 WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Tips and tricks on being more productive in 2025. Psychological tricks. Procrastination busting strategies.
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.
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.
The Washington Capital Gains Tax WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Washington capital gains tax.
Member Exclusive: 2025 New Year Tax Update: A Comprehensive Guide with Art Werner WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
New tax legislation, recent IRS updates, and key court cases.
Comprehensive Partnership Taxation Form 1065 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Special and targeted allocations. Proper calculation of outside and inside tax basis. Tax consequences of distributions including the impact of "hot assets". Transfer of partnership interests. Issuance of partnership interests to service partners.
2025 Washington Ethics and New Developments with Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and key Washington differences. New developments at the national and state level. Best practices for CPAs in public accounting and industry. Emerging issues.
Federal Tax Update with Greg and George WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.
Comprehensive Pass-Through Owners' Basis and Distribution Rules WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the owner's individual income tax return (i.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations). Determine how to calculate an owners' initial tax basis of his pass-through entity. Learn how to correctly make annual adjustments to a pass-through owners' tax basis. Identify what constitutes a debt basis for an S corporation shareholder. Learn the tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders.
Legal Planning for Care Giving of Elderly/Disabled Clients WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Review legal and care giving options that are available to individuals and their families for when the individual can no longer live alone and needs some assistance. Review caring for the individual at home by family caregivers, outside agencies, and others, including household employee and homeowner's insurance issues, family caregiver respite care and adult day care. When care is no longer feasible in the home, we go through various living arrangements and financing options, including assisted living facilities, adult foster care homes and nursing homes and review how to protect family assets in such situations.
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