CPE Catalog & Events
Employment Law 101 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Title VII. Americans With Disabilities Act. Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Family Medical Leave Act. Fair Labor Standards Act. Equal Pay Act. National Labor Relations Act. Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Governmental Accounting 101 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fund types. Budgetary accounting. Financial reporting requirements. Single audit act. Audit standards and procedures. Best practices in governmental accounting.
10 Ways to Create Delighted Clients and More Referrals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Communicate more powerfully with clients and other CPA's by understanding human behavior. How to judge if your communication is effective in motivating someone. How to create trust and get people to like working with you - inside and outside the firm. The 3 most important keys for getting someone to feel rapport with you. Why rapport is so important, and how to use it to profit in your work. How to quickly solve problems with people once you have their rapport. Secret techniques that super-successful communicators use. How to persuade people without them knowing they are being persuaded. The three most important keys all successful communicators use. Why great service is better for your business in the long run. How to know what's most important to your client or boss-so you can focus on that.
Business Intelligence and Business Analytics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The rise of business intelligence (BI), business analytics (BA), and Big data. Why the interest in BI and BA? The analytics continuum. How BA can provide a competitive advantage. The difference between BI and BA. The difference between forecasting and predictive analytics. Fundamentals of analytical techniques. Examples for the CFO and accounting function. Benefits from applying analytics. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the accounting profession.
Not-For-Profit Organizations: Financial Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.0 Credits
Financial entity. IRS filing status. Recent ASC updates affecting nonprofit entities.
Federal Income Taxation of Cannabis Businesses WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Income taxability. Restrictions on expense deductibility. Application of capitalization rules. Ethical and non-tax legal constraints.
Strategies in Charitable Giving: Unveiling Financial and Estate Planning Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Profound insights into charitable gift annuities. Navigating charitable giving through life insurance mechanisms. Exploring the nuances of charitable remainder trusts (CRATs and CRUTs). Mastering charitable lead trusts as part of advanced planning strategies. Comprehensive comprehension of community foundations' role. Comprehensive understanding of private foundations and their significance. Unveiling the intricacies of conservation and fa‡ade easements. Harnessing the potential of retirement plan gifts, including utilizing IRAs or other retirement funds for charitable donations. Grasping the strategic significance of testamentary gifts. Unlocking the potential of donor-advised funds. Navigating the dynamics of pooled income funds. Proficiency in understanding the role of supporting organizations in charitable planning.
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.
Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of audit risk assessment. AICPA's clarified risk assessment standards. SAS 145. Assessing the entity's environment.
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.
Common Audit and Financial Reporting Deficiencies in State and Local Governments WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Financial statement preparation. Common mistakes made in preparing financial statements. GASB financial statement preparation standards.
GASB 96 -SBITA, GASB 94 P3, and GASB 87 Leases (Year 2) WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Requirements of GASB 96, GASB 94, and GASB 87. Implementation of GASB 96, 94 and 87.
Become Rich Without Selling Your Soul WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How to know your specific obstacles to becoming rich. Why people use poor marketing and investment strategies, and how to overcome such limitations. The most effective marketing methods, and how to implement them. The power of being super motivated, and 3 methods to keep you motivated long term towards your goals. Having a vision for your business and life that will keep you on the right track.
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.
Effectively Communicating Change WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The characteristics that affect people's ability to adopt change. Communication strategies to influence adoption.
Financial Statement Analysis for Managers WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Pros and cons of ratio analysis. Cash flow analysis. Operating leverage vs. financial leverage. Effective financial performance measures.
Hold Your Horses! How Landmark Fraud May Have Been Avoided WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Key aspects of Rita Crundwell's theft. Internal controls that could have prevented the theft. Internal controls that could have detected the theft in a timely manner. Independence in both fact and appearance. Lessons for CPA firms. Lessons for government agencies.
Power BI - Introduction to MS Power BI Tools WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The challenge of using Excel for Data Analysis. An overview of the various Power BI Tools. An overview of when and why to use each Power BI Tool. A tour of each tools interface.
Top Employment Tools to Protect Your Business and Recommend to Business Clients WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Arbitration agreements. Confidentiality agreements. Restrictive covenants. Training. Severance agreements.
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.
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