CPE Catalog & Events
Social Media: The Bare Necessities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Social media. Marketing. Publicity. Public relations. Business strategy.
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.
K2's 2023 Case Studies in Fraud and Technology Controls WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Key fraud risks impacting businesses today. Examples of fraud and the monetary impact on victims. How to create, implement, and assess technology-based internal controls to reduce the probability of becoming a fraud victim.
Using Internal Control to Strengthen Security, Efficiency, and Employee Conduct WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
An overview of control frameworks and concepts. Strategic considerations that can be incorporated into control development. Understanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change or choose not to.
Cyber Attacks Through Impersonation WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Impersonation techniques used to launch cyber attacks. Cybercriminals' focus: stealing financial assets and intellectual property. Practical advice on controls to implement to reduce victimization from impersonation cyber attacks. Practical advice to reduce the impact of a cyber attack.
The Top 5 HR Tools To Help You Do The Best Job Possible WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Provide an overview of Human Resources Solutions in the market. Understand how to integrate tools if one platform is insufficient. Consideration of team member experience in using HR tools.
K2's 2023 Top PDF Features You Should Know WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Best practices for creating, editing, and managing PDFs. The process for creating and distributing PDF forms. Integrating PDFs with other applications. Securing your PDFs.
K2's 2023 Advanced Excel WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Collaboration and security techniques. Tables, data models, and PivotTables. Advanced formulas. Data queries. Creating effective visualizations.
K2's 2022 Accounting Automation WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Key automation opportunities. Benefits and risks associated with automation. Primary tools available for automation efforts.
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.
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 & 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.
DEI in the Remote Work Era WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
DEI. Employee engagement. Remote work. Organizational culture. Employee relations.
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.
K2's 2023 Simplifying And Economizing Your Tech Stack WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Identifying the tech tools you need and those you don't. Canceling unnecessary licenses and subscription services.
Emotional Intelligence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Emotions. Relationships.
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.
Networking Works: Build Relationships to Build Your Business WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Relationship-building. Active listening. Public speaking.
Creating a Culture of Trust: Build Loyal and Engaged Teams WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
Culture. Trust.
K2'S 2022 Automation For Increasing Personal Efficiency And Effectiveness WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Automation opportunities. Understanding integration platforms. Productivity tips, tricks, and applications. Tips and tricks for saving valuable time.
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