CPE Catalog & Events
Member Exclusive: Annual Meeting Recap WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
A comprehensive overview of the crucial topics and table discussions.
Inventory, Expense and Payroll Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Methods of committing inventory, expense and payroll fraud. What to look for when observing inventory. Detection of inventory fraud. How to recognize fictitious expenses. How to recognize altered expenses. Indicators of fake documentation. The three main reasons we ask for documentation. Detection and prevention of ghost employees.
Communicating Financial Data to Non-Financial Audiences WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Key barriers when communicating financial information. How to overcome those barriers. Key tips on effectively communicating financial information to non-financial audiences.
How AI is Automating Internal Control WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An explanation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
Analyzing Financial Statements WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Balance sheet analysis. Income statement analysis. Cash flow statement analysis. Clues in the notes and MD&A. Industry nuances.
Complying With the Corporate Transparency Act: A Guide for Client Protection WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Identify the applicability of the CTA to an advisor's clients. Learn the fundamentals of the CTA, including its purpose, scope, and compliance requirements. Explore the potential risks and benefits associated with the law and how it can affect your clients' interests. Understand the CTA's impact on corporate structures, reporting requirements and enforcement mechanisms. Learn how to navigate the regulatory landscape to ensure compliance. Identify which entities are now required to disclose owner information. Discuss the reporting requirements of the CTA. Learn what entities are subject to the exceptions of the CTA. Understand the penalties for noncompliance of the CTA.
ChatGPT: What Every CPA Should Know WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of the current landscape for AI in business. History of ChatGPT and generative AI. Fundamentals of generative AI technology and related nomenclature. ABC's of how to use ChatGPT. Demonstration of practical ChatGPT applications for accounting, finance, and tax. A word of caution: What you should be concerned about. Developing a ChatGPT usage policy for your firm.
GAAP Alternatives: The Perfect Storm of Accounting Updates WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Review of special purpose frameworks. Discussion of non-GAAP options for financial reporting. U. S GAAP alternatives for certain entities.
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.
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.
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.
Navigating Leaves of Absence WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Family Medical Leave Act - full time and intermittent. Americans With Disabilities Act . Special rules for managers . Handling fraud, abuse, and performance issues in connection with a leave of absence.
Avoiding Budget People Issues: Managing Budgeting's Soft Side 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.
Budgeting: Presenting and Communicating your 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.
Guide to the Corporate Transparency Act for Accounting and Finance Professionals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The Corporate Transparency Act and its goals. Which entities need to file reports and which entities are exempt?. Who is a beneficial owner and what is substantial control? Information that needs to be reported. How to get your firm and your clients ready for the requirements.
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.
Understanding the "Most Common" Form 990 Schedules: A, B, and C WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.5 Credits
What 990 preparers need to know about the benefits of a 501(c)(3) organization being a public charity rather than a private foundation. The public policy precepts and resulting emphasis preparers must apply in approaching the predominant "public support test" in favor of completion of Schedule A's Part II. The overarching needs behind preparing Schedule B for filing and, as necessary, its related worksheet. Introduction to the baselines driving each of the Schedule C's three Parts.
Blockchain Technology: What Every CPA Should Know WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
An explanation of what blockchain is. Review of the nomenclature associated with blockchain technology. Thorough review of the components of a blockchain application. Review of current and potential applications for blockchain and its impact on commerce. Potential impact on the CPA profession in accounting and auditing.
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.
Prix Fixe: The Five Golden Rules of Business Development WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Gain insight into how to ramp up revenues, focus on niche markets and develop a systematic approach to building your business consistently.
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