CPE Catalog & Events
ChatGPT: What Every CPA Should Know WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of the current landscape for AI in business. History of ChatGPT and generative AI. Fundamentals of generative AI technology and related nomenclature. ABC's of how to use ChatGPT. Demonstration of practical ChatGPT applications for accounting, finance, and tax. A word of caution: What you should be concerned about. Developing a ChatGPT usage policy for your firm.
GAAP Alternatives: The Perfect Storm of Accounting Updates WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Review of special purpose frameworks. Discussion of non-GAAP options for financial reporting. U. S GAAP alternatives for certain entities.
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.
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.
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.
Navigating Leaves of Absence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Family Medical Leave Act - full time and intermittent. Americans With Disabilities Act . Special rules for managers . Handling fraud, abuse, and performance issues in connection with a leave of absence.
Avoiding Budget People Issues: Managing Budgeting's Soft Side 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.
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.
Business Intelligence and Business Analytics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The rise of business intelligence (BI), business analytics (BA), and Big data. Why the interest in BI and BA? The analytics continuum. How BA can provide a competitive advantage. The difference between BI and BA. The difference between forecasting and predictive analytics. Fundamentals of analytical techniques. Examples for the CFO and accounting function. Benefits from applying analytics. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the accounting profession.
Understanding the "Most Common" Form 990 Schedules: A, B, and C WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
What 990 preparers need to know about the benefits of a 501(c)(3) organization being a public charity rather than a private foundation. The public policy precepts and resulting emphasis preparers must apply in approaching the predominant "public support test" in favor of completion of Schedule A's Part II. The overarching needs behind preparing Schedule B for filing and, as necessary, its related worksheet. Introduction to the baselines driving each of the Schedule C's three Parts.
Blockchain Technology: What Every CPA Should Know WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
An explanation of what blockchain is. Review of the nomenclature associated with blockchain technology. Thorough review of the components of a blockchain application. Review of current and potential applications for blockchain and its impact on commerce. Potential impact on the CPA profession in accounting and auditing.
Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Tactical budget issues. Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions.
Prix Fixe: Developing Business in Challenging Times WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The five basics of business development in hard times Strategies for things you can implement now to move business forward Tips for maintaining a positive mindset even when difficulties arise How to gain clarity on your niche markets Learn how to articulate your value to key audiences Identify champions to help you build business faster
Building Flexible Budgeting Models: Walking Through and Crunching The 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.
Risk Assessment for Small Business Audits WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Each element of the risk assessment process. Understanding the client's business and industry in which it operates. Internal control. Assessing the magnitude and likelihood of risk. Linking risk assessment to substantive audit procedures.
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.
Coaching and Counseling - Performance Management WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Setting and resetting performance expectations. On-the-spot counseling. Addressing erratic performance. Drafting and presenting performance appraisals.
What Does Fraud Look Like? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Why auditors fail to detect fraud. Usual vs an unusual transaction. Why fraud and stupid often look exactly the same. The importance of establishing the Perception of Detection. The number one reason fraud occurs. Looking for things that should be there. Looking for things that should not be there.
Imagining a World Without Non-Competes WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Federal non-compete law. State non-compete law.
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