CPE Catalog & Events
Introduction to Sustainability Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
History of sustainability accounting. Sustainability metrics for industry. Published sustainability standards.
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.
Creating Rapid Rapport for Increased Business WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How to get people to like you. The elements of trust. Mastering non-verbal communication. What to say to establish immediate rapport.
Power BI - OLAP Formulas and More Time Intelligent Functions WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
OLAP functions to create custom calculations on an Excel worksheet. Measures that help determine the date of your refreshed data. Advanced time intelligent functions to create date-based measures.
Fraud in the Nonprofit Environment WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Prevalence of fraud in nonprofit organizations. Misappropriation and strategies for prevention. Misuse of government funds: how to identify and impact on revenue recognition. Cyber-related fraud targeting nonprofit organizations.
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.
Excel - Advanced Spreadsheet Troubleshooting Techniques WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Learning the art of nesting formulas. Techniques to troubleshoot complex formulas Review of the 9 built-in error checking options. Techniques to resolve rounding errors.
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 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.
Invest in Your Mental Health and Avoid Burnout WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
How to recognize burnout and evaluate where you are on the burnout scale. How impostor syndrome drives coping reactions of overworking, over preparing and perfectionism. How mindfulness can reduce stress and save time. Silencing the critical inner voice. Tools to help you become more attuned to your needs and emotions. How attending to and regulating your nervous system impacts your mood and well-being.
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.
Forensic Data Analytics Supercourse for Fraud Prevention and Detection WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Forensic data analytics. Fraud prevention and detection. Data validation and methodologies. COSO's Fraud Risk Management Guide principles. Innovations in anti-fraud technology.
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.
Walkin', Talkin', Lookin' and 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.
An Introduction to AI and ChatGPT for CPAs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The background of OpenAI and ChatGPT. Prompt Engineering. Using ChatGPT to find CPA-related answers. Practical strategies for keeping up with AI.
Building Trust in Remote Teams: Catalyze Collaboration and Communication WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Teamwork. Collaboration.
Measuring Audit Risks WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
The planning process - When it starts and when it ends. Determining the audit objectives. The importance of the nature, timing and extent of the audit process. The importance of professional skepticism. The preliminary engagement activities. Documentation of audit risk. Determining materiality.
Nonprofit A&A Standards Update and New Developments WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Pledges and contributions Restrictions and conditions. Special concerns with governmental funding. Donated goods and services. Special events. Revenues earned through sales and services to customers.
Prevention and Detection of Fraud In Small Businesses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The importance of the control environment. The three most common behavioral red flags exhibited by perpetrators. Why it is much more cost effective to prevent fraud than it is to detect fraud. The reason why the small business owner/auditor should think about how they would steal. Who steals and why. Common myths about stealing that are not true. Understanding the concept of risk management.
Advanced ChatGPT for Accountants WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Introduction to ChatGPT and its applications in accounting. custom instructions for persistent context in financial conversations. Analyzing financial statements and news releases using ChatGPT. Exploring business opportunities through hyper-local and sectoral analysis. Advanced data analysis for financial comparisons and capital asset audits. Image analysis for asset, space, and user interface design. Voice interaction with ChatGPT for enhanced user experience and accessibility.
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