CPE Catalog & Events
Eight Strategies for Mastering the AI Wave 2024
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
• The challenge of the pace of AI and emerging technologies • The relationship between technology and productivity • Increase your productivity with tools you already use • Recognize the relationship between productivity and value
Hold Your Horses! How Landmark Fraud May Have Been Avoided
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Key aspects of Rita Crundwell’s theftInternal controls that could have prevented the theftInternal controls that could have detected the theft in a timely mannerIndependence in both fact and appearanceLessons for CPA firmsLessons for government agencies
Mergers & Acquisitions: Tips and Speed Bumps to Avoid
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Making strategic acquisitions Identifying potential acquisition candidates Alternatives to M&A Identifying and understanding organizational culture Understanding the keys to effective and efficient due diligence Planning and executing an effective integration Key considerations
K2's 2023 Implementing Internal Controls In Quickbooks Environments
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Critical risks in QuickBooks environments Internal control options that can mitigate risk to prudently acceptable levels Enabling alternative control measures to improve internal controls in QuickBooks environments
K2's 2023 Technology For CPAs - Don't Get Left Behind
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Emerging technologies all business professionals should know Considerations associated with upgrading to Windows 11 Practical options for protecting your data New features in commonly-used applications such as Excel and Adobe Acrobat DC
2024 Instant Audit? Just Add Risk Assessment
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
The audit risk model Risk assessment Linking risks to audit procedures Other responses to risks Documentation
K2's 2023 Kicking It Up A Notch With KPIs
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
How to look for data in your existing systems The basics of data prep tools Tools for tracking and reporting on KPIs
A 7-Step Framework for Marketing Client Accounting Services
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics covered in this class include:An efficient process to identify, attract and consultatively sell CAS to new prospectsRemain and leverage being "top of mind" with prospects and existing by communicating the real value of your services using a variety of channelsHow to efficiently create and deliver an effective, ongoing, marketing, and sales plan with specific tools and tactics to sell your firm's CAS offering and differentiate you in the market
2024 Guide to Depreciating & Expensing Business Assets
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Recent tax legislation and developments related to depreciation and capitalization Eligible property for Section 179 and Section 168(k) Discussion of the Section 179 deduction and its use to depreciate real property The Section 168(k) deduction and its use to depreciate real property Disposition of segments of real property Exchanges of tangible personal property after repeal of the like-kind exchange rules
Surgent's Guide to Partner Capital Account Reporting
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
How a partner’s outside basis and capital account differ Reconciling Schedule M-2 Form 1065 with Partnership K-1 Schedule L IRS requirement to report partner tax basis on the transactional approach Implications if a capital account is negative Deficit restoration accounts and qualified income offsets Modified outside basis method and modified previously taxed capital method Determining a partner’s beginning capital account Beginning capital account for partnerships and partners consistently reporting on the tax basis The two types of adjustments under 754 and how 743 and 734 require different capital account presentations
Surgent's What CPAs Should Know About Trust Instruments
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Legal definitions & principals involving estates & trusts Basic principles regarding property ownership Types of trusts commonly used Trust accounting fundamentals Certain clauses that are important to understand Formula valuation clauses Requirements for a trust to be a qualified designated beneficiary of an IRA Using IRD to fund charitable bequests
Surgent's Four Tiers of Loss Limitations: A Guide to the Rules for Pass-Through Entities
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Tier 1: Basis limitations for S corporation shareholders and partners Tier 2: Section 465 at-risk limitations for S corporation shareholders and partners, including the impact of debt, indemnities, guarantees, and shareholder/partner agreements Tier 3: Section 469 passive loss limitations and exceptions to the limitations Tier 4: The excess business loss limitation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (new §461(l)), American Rescue Plan Act, and Inflation Reduction Act
Surgent's Real Estate Taxation: Critical Considerations
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
The impact of recent tax legislation on the real estate industry Depreciation and recapture Determining the basis when acquiring real estate Passive activity losses Calculation of gain or loss on sale of real estate Rental operations Installment sales
Organizational Effectiveness and Communication
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Communication
2024 Accounting & Attestation for ESG
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
ESG Sustainaibility
Cash Conversion Cycle: Tool and Techniques
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Understanding the timing elements of your day’s working capital The impact of inventory on the Cash Conversion Cycle How vendors and customers can help your cash conversion cycle Planning and forecasting for a healthy cash flow Assorted management tips to control the Cash Conversion Cycle
Managing Your Money in Retirement
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Social Security Retirement Asset allocation Fraud
K2's 2023 Top PDF Features You Should Know
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Best practices for creating, editing, and managing PDFs The process for creating and distributing PDF forms Integrating PDFs with other applications Securing your PDFs
2024 Professional Skepticism for the Public Accountant
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Self-evaluation of skepticism Requirements set forth by the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Risk assessment Analytical procedures Advice for cultivating your professionally skeptical mindset
International Tax Lunch Series 2024
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $49
• May 2024: Foreign-Owned Real Estate Holding Structures: Corporate Structures In Depth • June 2024: Foreign-Owned Real Estate Holding Structures: Trust Structures in Depth • July 2024: Foreign-Owned Real Estate Holding Structures: Fixing Problems • August 2024: Foreign-Owned Real Estate, the Ownership Phase: Income Taxation • September 2024: Real Estate Disposition Case Study: Sale of a California Personal Residence -- Taxation, Withholding, Tax Returns • October 2024: Preparing an Expatriation Income Tax Return and Form 8854 • November 2024: What Kind of Trust is This? Foreign/Domestic, Grantor/Non-grantor, Simple/Complex • January 2025: Foreign Grantor Trusts: Taxation, Tax Compliance, and Use Cases • February 2025: Foreign Non-grantor Trusts: Taxation, Tax Compliance, and Use Cases • March 2025: Foreign Non-grantor Trust Distributions to U.S. Beneficiaries