CPE Catalog & Events - Washington Society of CPAs

Leases: Mastering the New FASB Requirements WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 6:00am - 2:00pm PST

Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Lease classification. Amortization of the lease asset. Derecognition of the underlying asset. Recognition of lease receivables. Lease modifications: Sale and leaseback transactions. Presentation, disclosure and transition requirements. The business context for implementing FASB ASC 842.

Fixing Your Chart of Accounts WEBINAR

Monday, December 5 7:00am - 8:00am PST

Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Current chart of accounts best practices. Why developing a chart of accounts begins with studying your organizational chart. How to identify your account segments. Determining the order of your account segments. Best practices for numbering account bases. How to avoid memorization. Fixing Your current chart of accounts. How big company and small company software differs. Two key approaches for preserving your historical data. What to know when making major chart of accounts changes.

Unleash your Employees' Creative Superpowers with Lessons from the Fearless WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 7:00am - 8:00am PST

Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Innovation. Collaboration. Creativity. Disruption.

Introvert Power, Why Quiet Leaders are So Successfu LWEBCAST

Monday, December 5 7:00am - 9:00am PST

Your Desk

2.0 Credits

What are the signs of an Introvert? Why do we seek out extroverts? How do we communicate? Introvert characteristics. Secrets of public speaking for Introverts. How to help your Introverted child? Playing to an introvert's strengths.

2022 Living With the New Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 7:00am - 11:00am PST

Your Desk

4.0 Credits

The current and planned requirements for CMMC. The relationship between CMMC and other compliance requirements. The two components of CMMC: implementation and third-party assessment. Types of entities that may be subject to CMMC requirements and the types of organizations available to assist in meeting those requirements. Steps that your organization (or your clients) can take now or may in the future be required to take to address CMMC. Potential expansion of CMMC-type requirements beyond the defense industrial base.

2022 Not-for-Profit Accounting, Auditing & Tax Update WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 7:00am - 3:00pm PST

Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Auditing update. Crypto currency and the nonprofit. FASB update. Not-for-Profit tax update.

A CPA's Guide to Living With the New Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and Crypto Currency WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 7:00am - 3:00pm PST

Your Desk

8.0 Credits

The current and planned requirements for CMMC. The relationship between CMMC and other compliance requirements. The two components of CMMC: implementation and third-party assessment. Types of entities that may be subject to CMMC requirements and the types of organizations available to assist in meeting those requirements. Steps that your organization (or your clients) can take now or may in the future be required to take to address CMMC. Potential expansion of CMMC-type requirements beyond the defense industrial base. History of cryptocurrencies. Forms of Cryptocurrency. Trading Crypto how to. Fiat vs non-fiat currency. Balance sheet considerations. Fraud risks and regulatory enforcement trends. Legislative update. Advising clients on Crypto.

Analytical Procedures: Methods and Evaluation WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 8:00am - 12:00pm PST

Your Desk

4.0 Credits

Review of the appropriate audit and review standards. Identifying appropriate analytical procedures in the circumstances. Developing expectations. Designing and performing analytical procedures. Investigating results of the procedures performed. Introduction to data analytics.

Federal Tax Update Business with Greg & George WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 8:00am - 12:00pm PST

Your Desk

4.0 Credits

• Important new cases.• Brand new reporting requirements that will result in clients receiving millions of new Forms 1099-Ks.• Change in deducting research expenses (including software development costs).• An important new trend is afoot: Courts are invalidating IRS guidance in case after case. We’ll talk about the ramifications on your practice. • How do you “catch up” on depreciation that you missed? If you didn’t allocate part of the purchase of rental real estate to personal property and land improvements (both of which are bonus eligible), we’ll cover important new IRS guidance that tells you how to take a big tax deduction on clients’ 2022 tax returns. You can use this to fix mistakes made many years ago (the statute of limitations doesn’t apply to this area).• Legislative developments, including The Inflation Reduction Act, and the SECURE Act 2.0.o Extension of the excess business loss limit (§461(l)).o The corporate minimum tax.o Commercial solar credit. Can you get the credit for solar panels on your rental duplex? We’ll cover this.o What proposed changes didn’t make it into the final law?• What is the IRS going to do with the $80 billion extra funding it will receive? We’ll cover the details. • Which mistakes S corporations are making that terminate their S status.

How Fraud Can Affect Smaller Organizations WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 8:00am - 12:00pm PST

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.

Federal Tax Update: Comprehensive Individual Tax-Form 1040 WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 8:00am - 4:00pm PST

Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Review of recent federal legislation and administrative rulings. Review of recent modifications to tax forms. Review of small business tax law and administrative update changes. Review of retirement plan changes. Overall review of tax practice and procedures.

Making Better Financial Healthcare Decisions WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 8:00am - 4:00pm PST

Your Desk

8.0 Credits

The interrelationship of health, happiness, and financial well-being. Tax planning for health care costs. The failures and successes of the Affordable Care Act. Medical insurance terminology, alternatives, and strategies for selecting the best option. The pros and cons of health savings accounts. Traditional long-term care insurance, hybrid strategies, or self-insure? Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D and MediGap plans. Incapacity, elder law, Medicaid, and choosing a long-term care facility. Hospice and palliative care.

Pass-Through Owners' Basis and Distribution Rules: Comprehensive-Forms 1065 and 1120S WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 8:00am - 4:00pm PST

Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the owner's individual income tax return (I.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations). Determine how to calculate an owners' initial tax basis of his pass-through entity. Learn how to correctly make annual adjustments to a pass-through owners' tax basis. Discover how cash or non-cash distributions from a pass-through entity affect the basis calculations and whether they are taxable to the owners. Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder's stock in an S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership. Learn what constitutes a debt basis for an S Corp shareholder. Learn the tax ramifications of repaying loans to S Corp shareholders. Learn how recourse and non-recourse debt is allocated to a partner and learn how this allocation affects a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk. Learn how to interpret a Schedule K-1 for items related to the calculation of basis.

Fundamental Responsibilities for Reviewing Workpapers WEBINAR

Monday, December 5 8:30am - 10:30am PST

Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Documentation as a means of audit quality. Responsibilities of the workpaper reviewer. Appropriate review notes at various phases of the engagement, including before and after audit report date and report release. Important tips for providing review notes that will promote an effective and efficient financial statement audit.

How 10 Emotional Intelligence Habits Can Foster Trust in the Workplace WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 10:00am - 11:00am PST

Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Emotional intelligence. Workplace culture. Employee trust.

Excel - Two Must Know Features: Defined Names & Tables WEBINAR

Monday, December 5 10:00am - 12:00pm PST

Your Desk

2.0 Credits

None.

Artificial Intelligence for Accountants WEBINAR

Monday, December 5 10:30am - 12:30pm PST

Your Desk

2.0 Credits

AI snapshot. AI's multiple implications for the accounting profession. AI case studies. Leading AI categories. Key AI resources and communities online. AI starter strategy for accountants.

Communications Skills Training for the CPA WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 11:00am - 1:00pm PST

Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Becoming a stronger communicator. The communication process. Improving oral and written communications. "Empathy, ego and needs," personality types and their influence on communications. Case studies to summarize communication concepts

Excel for Accounting Professionals Session 1: Tables and Named References WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 11:00am - 1:00pm PST

Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Excel tables and named references.

2022 A CPA's Guide to Crypto Currency WEBCAST

Monday, December 5 11:00am - 3:00pm PST

Your Desk

4.0 Credits

History of cryptocurrencies. Forms of Cryptocurrency. Trading Crypto how to. Fiat vs. non-fiat currency. Balance sheet considerations. Fraud risks and regulatory enforcement trends. Legislative update. Advising clients on Crypto.