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How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail WEBCAST

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Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Team dynamics. Influence. Organizational behavior. Leadership.

Audit Quality and the Current Practice Environment WEBINAR

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Overview of the trends in the practice environment impacting audit quality. Update on the AICPA's Enhancing Audit Quality. AICPA Peer Review Board's areas of focus. Common peer review and regulatory findings. How the current business climate is challenging compliance with professional standards and the key areas to focus on during the audit risk assessment process. Common practice issues and tips for achieving high quality engagements. AICPA's Quality Management Standards and strategies for implementation. Emerging technologies and new assurance opportunities.

Providing Ethical Leadership: Learning to be the Best Version of Yourself WEBCAST

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Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Examining the lives of ordinary people whose moral courage had a significant impact on those around them. How anyone, irrespective of their role in an organization, can inspire others to embrace ethical attitudes. Showing how even simple actions can outsized effect on a person's sphere of influence.

Income, Estate, and Gift Tax Planning for Real Estate in these Ever Changing Times WEBCAST

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Real estate as a part of a client's divinified portfolio of investments. Understanding the differences revolving around personal real estate vs. investment real estate. Understanding valuation issues. Understanding titling issues. Individual deduction issues, including the interest limitation. Business deduction issues. At-risk limitations. Passive activity rules update. How the IRC Section 199A deduction applies to real estate investments. Depreciation issues. Estate and gift planning techniques for real estate. Proper use of trusts in real estate holdings.

Secure Act 2.0 - Everything That You Need to Know WEBCAST

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Mandatory automatic enrollment. Credit for small employer pension plan startup costs. Enhancement of the saver's credit. Increase in starting age for RMDs . Indexing IRA catch-up. Higher catch-up limit age 61, 62, 63, and 64. Student loan payments as elective deferrals for matching contributions. Start-up credit costs for employers joining an existing plan. Financial incentives for contributing to a plan. Withdrawals for certain emergency expenses. Simple plan changes. Starter 401(k) plans. Sec 529 plan to Roth rollovers. Emergency savings accounts. Enhancement of 403(b) plans. Qualified charitable distributions to split interest entity. Retirement savings lost and found.

Taxation of Business Entities WEBINAR

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Types of business entities. Considerations in choosing a business entity. Future tax considerations that will impact various business entities.

What Does Fraud Look Like? WEBCAST

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Why auditors fail to detect fraud. Usual vs an unusual transaction. Why fraud and stupid often look exactly the same. The importance of establishing the Perception of Detection. The number one reason fraud occurs. Looking for things that should be there. Looking for things that should not be there.

K2's 2023 Excel Best Practices WEBCAST

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Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Best practices associated with creating Excel workbooks, including managing workbooks. How to secure Excel workbooks. Collaboration options and best practices in Excel. Effective reporting techniques in Excel.

K2's 2023 Small Business Internal Controls, Security, and Fraud Prevention and Detection WEBCAST

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Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Common challenges associated with implementing appropriate internal controls in small business environments. Fraud in small business environments. Internal control options in small business accounting software. Understanding the need for application controls and general controls.

Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit WEBINAR

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

The auditor's responsibilities for fraud when performing an audit as contained in AU-C 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit. Reviewing the components of the fraud triangle. A Fraud Prevention Checklist to be used by auditors and shared with their clients. A review of how selected fraud were uncovered in small and medium size entities, including for-profit organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and governmental entities. Other important matters covered in AU-C 240.

Combatting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace WEBCAST

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Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Sexual harassment prevention. Company culture.

K2's Next Generation Excel Reporting WEBCAST

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Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Identifying weaknesses in traditional reporting processes. Using leading-edge features in Excel to improve reporting practices. How to work with Power Query to solve common reporting challenges. Adding Slicers and Timelines to your Excel-based reports.

K2's 2023 Excel Essentials For Staff Accountants WEBCAST

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Your Desk

8.0 Credits

Best practices for creating and working with Excel workbooks. Effectively using Excel functions when creating formulas. The importance of PivotTables in modern reporting environments. Best practices for formatting your workbooks.

Coaching & Counseling - Performance Management WEBCAST

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Your Desk

1.0 Credits

Setting and resetting performance expectations. On-the-spot counseling. Addressing erratic performance. Drafting and presenting performance appraisals.

Asset Misappropriation - Let Me Count the Ways WEBCAST

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Identifying opportunity. The three most common behavioral red flags that we should always look for. The many ways to commit check fraud (it's so easy). Why inventory is such a good place to hide theft of assets. How to cover up inventory fraud. Accounts Receivable Fraud and how it works. How to count inventory that's not there.

Current Issues in Performing Yellow Book Audits WEBINAR

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

Latest developments relevant to Yellow Book audits. Be prepared to avoid the most commonly misapplied concepts on audits performed in conformance with Government Audit Standards.

Taxation of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) WEBCAST

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Your Desk

2.0 Credits

NFT basics. Classification of NFTs. Current Legislative and Policy Environment. Tax implications of creation, sales and exchanges of NFTs.

What's Going on at the FASB - 2023 WEBCAST

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Your Desk

4.0 Credits

FASB update. ASUs effective. Leases.

K2's 2023 Business Intelligence, Featuring Microsoft's Power BI Tools WEBCAST

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Your Desk

8.0 Credits

The importance of Business Intelligence in today's business climate. Differentiating between Power BI licensing options. A hands-on approach to creating effective Power BI reports and dashboards.

Making the Best of Bad Situations: Tax Planning in a COVID-19 Environment WEBCAST

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Your Desk

8.0 Credits

The effect COVID-19 on a client's total financial, estate, and asset protection plan. Understanding the issues revolving around the death of a client. Understanding medical issues. Understanding the tax and non-tax issues in divorce. Understanding the tax and non-tax issues in personal bankruptcy, cancellation of debt, foreclosure, repossession, and reporting of bad debts. Understanding the tax and non-tax issues of personal relationship matters, such as living together, property rights, premarital agreements, filing status, exemptions, and dependents. Understanding the support issues for spouses and former spouses. Understanding support issues for children of divorced or separated parents and the tax treatment of back child support. Understanding the business issues involved when the parties to a business breaks apart. Special issues, such as marital property rules, married versus unmarried tax rate comparisons, head of household status, and treatment of refunds and deficiencies.

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