CPE Catalog & Events
Powerful Public Speaking: Communicate With Confidence WEBCAST
Wednesday, October 12 7:00am - 10:00am PDT
Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Communications.
Unconscious Bias with Dr. Toby Groves WEBINAR
Wednesday, October 12 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Advanced strategies to recognize decision-making biases in your work. How audit investigations are affected by unconscious bias. The neuroscience behind implicit associations. Cognitive diversity and group decision making. How stereotypes develop.
How Fraud Can Affect Smaller Organizations WEBCAST
Wednesday, October 12 8:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The reasons for fraud. Fraudulent acts that are initiated against smaller organizations. Methods to stop fraud attempts against small businesses.
Common Financial Statement Disclosures WEBINAR
Wednesday, October 12 8:30am - 10:30am PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
General disclosures about the entity and its environment. Common critical information useful to financial statement readers for making economic decisions. Explain results of operations through information that supplements the face financial statements.
What Every Auditor Needs to Know about Data Analytics WEBINAR
Wednesday, October 12 9:00am - 11:00am PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
What is data analytics?. Introduction to the Flatiron Solar case study. Applying the data analytics lifecycle to Flatiron Solar.
Power BI - Go Beyond PivotTables with Power Pivot WEBINAR
Wednesday, October 12 9:00am - 1:00pm PDT
Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Data modeling in Power Pivot. Using basic DAX to create calculations. What are and when to use calculated columns and measures. Using the data model in Power Pivot to create PivotTables. Hierarchies in Power Pivot.
Performance Auditing Made Easy WEBCAST
Wednesday, October 12 11:00am - 12:30pm PDT
Your Desk
1.5 Credits
Performance audit standards. Performance audit types. Performance audit objectives.
Dealing with Non-Filers WEBINAR
Wednesday, October 12 12:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How to bring non-filers back into the tax system. Assisting non-filers with resolving their tax nightmare.
Key Considerations For Setting Up A Crypto Payment System WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 6:00am - 7:00am PDT
Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Examine and walk through the primary considerations that any company seeking to implement a crypto payment system will need to keep in mind. Specific steps, the opportunities, and the challenges connected with implementing a crypto payment system. Documenting accounting implications. External resources will be provided in order additional context and information.
Cash Conversion Cycle: Tools and Techniques WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 6:00am - 8:00am PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Why the cash conversion cycle is your organization's lifeblood. Why traditional liquidity measures are no longer sufficient. How the cash conversion cycle provides a complete picture of your organization's cash management issues. Compare four cash management metrics to your organization and your competitors. Understand the arguments for and against cash accumulation.
Statement of Cash Flows: Preparation, Presentation, and Use WEBCAST
Thursday, October 13 7:00am - 11:00am PDT
Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Presentation requirements and issues. Operating section options and reporting issues. Cash equivalents examples and issues. Future developments and proposed changes.
Accounting for and Auditing Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 8:00am - 10:00am PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Common applications related to initial recognition and measurement, subsequent measurement or derecognition, presentation, and disclosure of cryptocurrency and other digital assets. Feedback from the AICPA's Digital Assets Working Group intended to assist auditors with opining on these digital record.
Public Charity Qualification Under the Public Support Tests WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 8:00am - 10:30am PDT
Your Desk
2.5 Credits
Intro to the two public support tests (PSTs), including the various common misconceptions about each test's application. Review of each test, focusing first on the relative ease of PST #1 (that calculated on Schedule A, Part II) which employs a bifurcated test (i.e., an automatic %-age versus a 'facts and circumstance' %-age "in"); thereafter, emphasizing the demands and challenges of PST #2 (calculated on Schedule A, Part III) with its restrictive parameters and dual tests each of which must be passed to be "in". Practical tips (and materials on same) translating revenue presentation from the Core Form 990 at Part VIII to the line inputs for both PSTs via Schedule A's Parts II and III. Discussion of how to assist organizations who are in danger of flunking one or both PSTs. Analyzing anomalies: explanation of both what comprises an unusual grant and when a filer's PST 1 "facts and circumstances test" argument ages out.
How to Review Financial Statements-A Practical Workshop WEBCAST
Thursday, October 13 8:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review of financial statements. Financial statement case studies.
Operations Level Internal Control WEBCAST
Thursday, October 13 8:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An overview of controls that drive procedures. Considerations for procedural control development. Understanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change.
Analytical Procedures: Practical Applications and Standards WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 9:00am - 11:00am PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Discussion of analytical procedures in audit and review engagements. Practical examples and illustrations of analytical procedures. The order of operations for accomplishing analytical procedures.
Guide to Cyber Security Planning WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 10:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Privacy and data security. Scams and fraud. Network and website security. Email. Mobile devices. Employees. Facility and operational security. Payment cards. Incident response and reporting. Security policy development.
Partnership/LLC Taxation: Tax Basis Capital Accounts WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 10:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Discuss the impact of the Section 199A flow-through entities deduction on partnerships and their partners. The meaning of a "tax basis capital account". How the financial accounting and tax capital accounts differ from one another. Determine a partner's share of the partnership's liabilities. Distinguish "recourse" loans from "nonrecourse" loans. What are "qualified nonrecourse financing" loans and how they affect partners. Section 704 "built-in gain or loss" rules and how they impact Schedule K-1 reporting. Section 4655 "at risk" rules and how they impact Schedule K-1 reporting.
Financial Reporting: Assets and Liabilities-U.S. GAAP vs IFRS WEBCAST
Thursday, October 13 11:00am - 1:00pm PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Inventories. PPE. Intangible assets. Investment property. Impairment of assets. Financial instruments. Provisions. Leases. Income taxes.
IRS Penalties and Abatements WEBINAR
Thursday, October 13 11:00am - 1:00pm PDT
Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Various types of penalties: Accuracy related, fraud, understatement of valuation, reporting requirement, failure to pay, and pay or deposit penalties. 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.
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