CPE Catalog & Events
K2's 2024 Optimizing Your Tech Stack For Efficiency And Cost-Effectiveness
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Conducting a tech stack assessment, including an inventory of current tools and applications Identifying essential and redundant tools Exploring cost-effective alternatives Calculating your total cost of ownership
Surgent's Employee vs. Independent Contractor: Achieving Success in a Worker Classification Audit
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
The 20 common law factors in a worker classification audit that are used to distinguish an employee from an independent contractor How disgruntled independent contractors can use IRS Form 8919 against a former employer When and how to use §530 as a defense in worker classification audits What is "industry practice" for §530 purposes Common sense steps that will avoid the recharacterization of workers treated as independent contractors to employees The IRS’s Voluntary Classification Settlement Program — advantages and disadvantages
Surgent's Excel: Mastering PivotTables
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Explore PivotTable capabilities and functionality Retrieve data from a database and feed it into the PivotTable Pull web tables from web pages into Excel
Gamed: Why Performance Targets and Incentives Fail and How to Fix Them
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
10-step ROKET-DS system, a simple structured method for designing meaningful targets and incentives which will help you ... Create targets and objectives that align with your strategy Build engagement with your target owners Test your targets and incentives rigorously for unexpected outcomes and dangerous loopholes
2024 Not-for-Profit Accounting & Auditing Update
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
CECL NAC Independence
2024 S Corporation Checkup: Key Tax Issues & Forms Reporting
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Discuss the calculation of basis when the entity is formed including the impact of contributed property Explain the importance of shareholder loans to the entity Uses a comprehensive example to illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process Schedules K-2 and K-3 Discuss how basis is impacted by distributions of corporation property Explain how basis is impacted by sale/or liquidation of the S corporation interest S corporation losses and how they impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting Show how to get from the Schedule K-1 information to the basis calculation
Partnership Preparation, Basis Calculations & Distributions - Form 1065 Schedule K & K-1 Analysis
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
Extensive review of the partnership tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes Review the Form 1065 to learn how income statement items get reported on the partnership/LLC tax return (i.e., page 1 versus Schedule K) and flow-thru to the partner/members on Schedule K-1 Analyze the Schedule K-1 line-by-line and discuss where the items get reported on the individual’s Federal income tax return and how the items affect the partner/member’s outside basis Look at detailed Schedule K-1 information reporting to partners/members needed for the qualified business income (QBI) deduction, 3.8% net investment income tax and business interest expense limitations Formation issues including the mandatory allocation of the §704(c) pre-contribution gain or losses back to the contributing partner/member Calculating the tax and §704(b) book capital accounts Reporting recourse and non-recourse debt on the Schedule K-1Tax ramifications and reporting of cash and non-cash distributions including disproportionate distributions of “hot assets” Overview of the §754 election for optional basis adjustments triggering §743 (transfer of interests) and §734 (distributions)
2024 Practical Excel Topics for the Public Accountant
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Data validation Underutilized, but powerful, formulas Formulas for manipulating, transforming, and cleansing data Formulas for data analysis Reference formulas such as =VLOOKUP Pivot tables
Monthly Federal Tax Updates - September 2024
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Current individual tax issuesCurrent business entity tax issuesAny current tax legislation occurring during the periodOther issues affecting the profession, including IRS procedure, current cases, payroll, and other federal tax issues
Reasonable Compensation for S Corps
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Explain the payroll tax advantage of taking distributions over wagesReview key court cases that shape todays reasonable compensation landscapeHow to use court factors to stress test reasonable compensationBest practices for determining reasonable compensationReview of the IRS’s enforcement on reasonable compensation; past, present and future
K2's Implementing Internal Controls In QuickBooks Environments
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
• 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
Seeing Beyond the Numbers: Analysis for CFOs & Controllers
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Purpose of Financial Statement AnalysisComparing Actuals vs. Expectations & BenchmarkingCase Studies 1 & 2Ratio AnalysisCase Study 3Analysis of Statement of Cash FlowsCase Studies 4 & 5Other Uses of Ratios
K2's 2023 Advanced Excel
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TBD
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Collaboration and security techniques Tables, data models, and PivotTables Advanced formulas Data queries Creating effective visualizations
Everything There is to Know About Summonsing
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TBD
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:The ingredients that make up an IRS summons.The IRS' legal authority to summons.How to comply with a summons.Whether to appear in response with your client or not.Common errors the IRS can make that will invalidate a summons.Following DOJ summons referral process; all based on an actual case.
Audit 201: Fraud Risk - Minimum Audit Requirements
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:The expectation gap with financial statement users regarding the auditor's responsibilities for preventing and detecting fraudFraud inquiries and engagement team discussion pointsFraud risk on an auditTesting journal entries and other tests for management overrideRequired fraud and noncompliance communications by various auditing, including communications required by Government Auditing Standards, PCAOB Audit Standards, and International Standards on Auditing
2024 Productivity Hacks for Working Remote
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Virtual Work Remote Work Telecommuting Flexible Work Options
The Controllership Series - The Future Role of the Controller Part 1
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TBD
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $59
Accounting and Finance
Financial Statement Fraud
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Financial statement fraud
Keys to Building an Inclusive and Culturally Competent Workplace: A Guide for HR Professionals and Business Owners
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TBD
1.8 Credits
Member Price: $79
Communication Leadership Character Behavior
2024 Business Tax Update for Industry
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Recent Federal legislative, rules and tax developments impacting business taxpayers Impact of Inflation Reduction Act on business Depreciation rules and developments Business losses and interest expense Latest legislative, judicial, and IRS developments