CPE Catalog & Events
Budgeting: Presenting and Communicating your Numbers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Budget defining. Budget cultures. Tactile budget issues. Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions. Understanding people in the budget process. Communicating your budget to non-financial types.
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.
K2'S 2022 CPA Firm Technology For The Future WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
CPA firm centric hardware. Software changes. Technology options for your firm. Specific technologies to improve productivity and profitability. Strategic products to consider for implementation.
Building Your Own Library of Anti-fraud & Continuous Monitoring Tests WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Build your own forensic data analytics tests around vendors, customers or employees. Expand your knowledge and library of available anti-fraud tests and behavioral algorithms. Align the right tests to the appropriate risks. Practical applications and use cases.
K2'S 2022 Emerging Topics In Blockchain And Cryptocurrency WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Blockchain basics and regulations. Cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, and blockchain-enabled central bank digital currencies. Smart contracts, sovereign identity management, cross-border funds transfer. Emerging uses for blockchain-based ledgers.
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.
GASB 96 -SBITA, GASB 94 P3, and GASB 87 Leases (Year 2) WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Requirements of GASB 96, GASB 94, and GASB 87. Implementation of GASB 96, 94 and 87.
Introduction to Forensic Data Analytics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Data analytics. Key fraud risk management guidance documents. Data analytics frameworks. Leading techniques and innovations for preventing and detecting fraud.
Starting a Fraud Investigation WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Assembling the fraud investigation team. Managing and supervising staff. Obtaining and managing evidence. Background checks. Public records searches. Digital data analysis. Interviewing techniques.
Data Extraction, Transformation, Validation the Right Data Sources for Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understand various data types. Structured vs. unstructured data. Completeness and validation testing. Selecting the right data sources for the job. Risks and pitfalls to avoid.
Governmental Accounting 101 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fund types. Budgetary accounting. Financial reporting requirements. Single audit act. Audit standards and procedures. Best practices in governmental accounting.
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.
K2'S 2022 Everything Google! Their Most Effective Tools, Apps & Services WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Computer software. Google.
K2'S 2022 Privacy Issues And Solutions - What You Need to Know! WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The most significant privacy threats today. Your browser and search engine and why they matter. Privacy policies - the fine print.
Aligning Analytics to COSO's Fraud Risk Management Principles WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
COSO Fraud Risk Management Guide. Aligning data analytics considerations to an effective fraud risk management program. How to implement and sustain an effective forensic data analytics program as part of an effective fraud risk management and compliance program.
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 2 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
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 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 lifestyle.
Dashboard and Report Design Principles Using Excel WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How to design charts for the fastest possible user understanding and ease of use. Review of case studies for group critique. Developing a design standard for your organization. Designing tables for rapid understanding and efficient space use. How to use commentary, maintaining a consistent style and level of detail. Using layout to support long-term memory and improve understanding. The impact of trend methods on user understanding and a brief introduction to a statistically valid method for trend analysis.. How to apply these techniques using Excel
Common Audit and Financial Reporting Deficiencies in State and Local Governments WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Financial statement preparation. Common mistakes made in preparing financial statements. GASB financial statement preparation standards.
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & 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.
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