CPE Catalog & Events
Gamed: Why Performance Targets and Incentives Fail and How to Fix Them WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Learn about the10-step ROKET-DS system, a simple structured method for designing meaningful targets and incentives. Create targets and objectives that align with your strategy. Build engagement with your target owners. Test your targets and incentives rigorously for unexpected outcomes and dangerous loopholes.
Tell Me a Story: Don't Just Simply Relay Your Financial Results WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
The creation of memorable messages. The science of storytelling. Real-world examples of storytelling and their operational impact on the business. Ten thoughts for the road. Three cases.
2024 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.
AI Introduction Workshop for CPAs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
AI terms and a plain English explanation of what they mean. How to use ChatGPT for accounting, tax, and technical
Employee Retention Credit WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Employee retention credit. Paid sick leave refundable credit. Paid family leave refundable credit.
Cybersecurity 101 for CPAs WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The typical IT architecture and technology components that reside in an IT environment. Specific cybersecurity controls that are applied at each layer within an IT environment. An overview of common cybersecurity frameworks used within the industry to establish and assess cybersecurity controls.
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.
Sustainability: Doing Well by Doing Good WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Triple bottom line. Sustainable business practices. Incorporating sustainability into every business decision.
Retirement Penalties and Rollover Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What the IRS knows: Forms 1099R and 5498. Exceptions to the ten percent penalty. Secure 2.0 changes to the late payment penalty. History of the 60-day Rule and Recent Developments. Rulings and self-certification. Form 5329 use and strategies.
Cost Accounting, R.I.P.: Cost Accounting Is Opinion, Cash Flow Is Fact WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Modeling cash flow and capacity. Adaptive capacity model. Segall's Law.
Advanced Excel Topics for Spreadsheet Power Users WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Using Excel for graphical output and dashboard reporting. Data tools and the Data Analysis ToolPak. Advanced functions and complex formulas. Working with Excel tables and PivotTables.
How Machines Are Coming Alive and Ruling the World WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? IoT in action. IoT economic impacts. How IoT will impact accountants. Structured vs. Unstructured data: the new accounting frontier. Leading IoT challenges and risks. Emerging IoT business models for accountants. How to monetize IoT. IoT starter strategy. IoT case studies.
Divorce Concerns: Taxes, Valuation, Finances, Retirement and Obligations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Divorce and ongoing payment issues dealing with alimony and child support. Documents protecting a client going forward, including pre-nuptials, cohabitation agreements, post-nuptials and many others. Advanced income tax issues, including like-kind exchanges, filing status issues, credits and asset sales. Advanced retirement issues, including dissecting qualified, personal retirement, and nonqualified plans, QDROs, past and defunct plans, and using retirement assets to equalize assets. High-level valuation issues, including closely held business, stock redemptions, partnership redemptions and stock options.
An Introduction to AI and ChatGPT for CPAs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The background of OpenAI and ChatGPT. Prompt Engineering. Using ChatGPT to find CPA-related answers. Practical strategies for keeping up with AI.
Exploring Internal Controls That Could Have Prevented Frauds WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Examination of actual frauds. Discussion of internal controls that could have prevented the frauds. Contemplation of epiphanies for your own professional scenarios.
Emerging Issues in Financial Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Are we equipped to deal with a resurgence in financial accounting fraud? Private company accounting standards, options and elections. The latest on crypto and ESG. Accounting and auditing for SAAS arrangements, impairments and going concern, and debt modification accounting. FASB and PCC agenda.
How Machines Are Coming Alive and Ruling the World WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What is the Internet of Things (IoT)? IoT in action. IoT economic impacts. How IoT will impact accountants. Structured vs. Unstructured data: the new accounting frontier. Leading IoT challenges and risks. Emerging IoT business models for accountants. How to monetize IoT. IoT starter strategy. IoT case studies.
IRS Highly Effective Penalty Relief Strategies WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The basis for penalty relief. Differing options for penalty relief. Employing an effective strategy using different forms of penalty relief. Appealing any proposed rejections. A clever penalty relief strategy for full pay case.
Effective Workpaper Techniques: Building a Better Workpaper WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Leveraging Excel and technology in a paperless environment. Effective workpapers: form, function, appearance and content. Workpaper standards for industry, audit and tax accountants. Attestation standards documentation and consequences of workpaper content. Peer review or PCAOB review documentation.
Government OPEB Accounting and Financial Reporting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Accounting and financial reporting for total and net OPEB liability. Key GASB statements for OPEB. Determining measurement date. Using alternative measurement method for the total OPEB liability defined benefit and defined contribution OPEB plans. Actuarial valuation of total and net OPEB liability.
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