CPE Catalog & Events
What's New in Excel WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
New features and tools in Excel. Updates to the Excel Function Library.
How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Team dynamics. Influence. Organizational behavior. Leadership.
Reporting the Results of a Fraud Investigation WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Written reports and supporting documentation. Methods of presenting evidence to help non-accountants understand the numbers. Evaluating reports of opposing experts. Responding to a motion in limine or Daubert challenge as an expert witness. Common lines of questioning for financial experts. Preparing for deposition and trial. Effectively testifying at deposition and trial.
Taxation of Judgements and Settlements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
Types of damages or remedies that can be awarded or agreed upon pursuant to litigation. Review of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations governing the taxation of various types of litigation payments. Suggestions for drafting pleadings or settlement agreements.
Entertainment, Meals & Travel Expenses: Review and Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Definition of what qualifies as an entertainment expense. Strategies to deduct business entertainment expenses. Deductibility of meals. Situations not subject to the 50% meals and entertainment reduction. How to handle automobile issues related to employer-provided parking. Proper accounting for deductible vs. non-deductible expenditures. The four steps to analyze business expenses. The latest federal legislation, cases, and rulings.
Payroll Essentials: De-mystifying Form W-4 WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Form W-4, Employee Withholding Certificate changes. Understanding what an employer can, and cannot do with regards to Form W-4.
Unrelated Business Income Tax Fundamentals 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Definition of unrelated business. Unrelated business income tax origins, exclusions, modifications and exceptions. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Changes and Final regulations, as well as relevant CARES Act and American Rescue Plan provisions. Special rules for advertising, bingo and trade shows. Debt financed income issues. Alternative investments. Filing requirements, including lessons learned from the past tax season. State UBIT filings and other federal filings relating to foreign investments.
Fraud, Misstatements and Financial Reporting 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Financial reporting fraud. Financial reporting objective. Earnings management. Accounting standards. Financial reporting controls. FASB concept statements.
What Every CPA Should Know About Fraud 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How is fraud detected? The role of external auditors in finding fraud. Revenue recognition issues. Corrupt management. Data mining. Physical and biometric controls.
Accounting Industry Update 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
FASB Technical Agenda and upcoming changes. ASUs. Implementation dates and methods. Audit quality initiatives. Changes to AICPA auditing standards and PCAOB standards.
Excel - Two Must Know Features: Defined Names & Tables WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Using Defined Names in formula creation. Learning how Defined Names can lead to more accurate spreadsheets. Structured calculations in Excel Tables.
R&D Tax Credits: IRS Scrutiny of Research Activity 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Better understand the benefits and requirements of claiming R&D tax credits and other related expenses. Know what the IRS is focused on in examinations and audits of tax returns claiming R&D credits. Decipher the IRS's expectations of taxpayers filing refund claims that include R&D tax credits. More easily identify key strategies to minimize exposure from the IRS's increased focus on R&D tax credit abuses.
IRS Penalties and Abatements WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Rules on waiver of penalties and interests. Various forms and procedures for requesting relief. First Time Abatement: Requirements and procedures. How an individual taxpayer qualifies for Reasonable Cause abatement. Procedures for requesting refund of paid penalties. Available administrative options.
Walkin', Talkin', Lookin' & Listenin' - Or Things Most of Us Don't Do Well WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The importance of making yourself available. How to start a conversation and what to NOT talk about. The art of how to listen. When you don't understand what they just said. Don't fool by equivocations when they respond to a question. Materiality and perception.
Form 706 Preparation Part 4: GST Schedule R, Form 8971, Payments and Credits 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Generation Skipping Transfer Tax, Schedule R, including election statements and integration with the marital deduction. Foreign Death Tax Credit, Schedule P and Prior Transfer Credit, Schedule Q. Qualified Conservation Easements, Schedule U. Making Sec. 6166 election and using Graegin loans.
Remote Working for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Remote working overview. Pros and cons of remote working. Remote work case studies. Leading remote work software and vendors . Lessons learned to date. Key resources and communities online tarter strategy for accountants.
Common Yellow Book & Single Audit Deficiencies - 2023 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Major program determination. Internal controls over compliance. Sampling and reporting. Yellow book independence.
The Most Critical Challenges in Not-for-Profit Accounting Today WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Preparing for the implementation of the new FASB ASU on grants, contracts, and contributions (i. e. , ASU No 2018-08, Clarifying the Scope and the Accounting Guidance for Contributions Received and Contributions Made). Developing a deeper understanding of the requirements in ASU No. 2016-02, Leases, and how not-for-profit entities will implement the standard. A review of additional key challenges in not-for-profit accounting today.
Taxation of Judgements and Settlements WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Types of damages or remedies that can be awarded or agreed upon pursuant to litigation. Review of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations governing the taxation of various types of litigation payments. Suggestions for drafting pleadings or settlement agreements.
Building Trust in Remote Teams: Catalyze Collaboration and Communication WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Teamwork. Collaboration.
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