CPE Catalog & Events
What's Changing in A&A for Governmental Entities (2024)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:A look at the GASB standards that are effective this yearGASB 100, Accounting Changes and Error CorrectionsGASB 101, Compensated Absences The impact of the 2024 Compliance Supplement on Single AuditsChanges to the Uniform Guidance.Common deficiencies found in Single Audits.
World-Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application (Part 1)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Beginning and intermediate cost principles automatically included Covers manufacturing materials, labor, period mfg inefficiencies How to efficiently trace the above costs to products Substantially reduce manufacturing overhead allocation by 60% or more ABC analysis is embedded in the MFG cost system without the need for a separate ABC implementation project
Building Security and Efficiency With Internal Control
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics covered in this course include:An overview of control frameworks and conceptsStrategic considerations that can be incorporated into control developmentUnderstanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change or choose not toThe COSO Internal Control Framework and the COSO ERM Framework
Surgent's Compilations, Reviews, and Preparations: Engagement Performance and Annual Update
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, and updates to SSARS No. 21 due to the issuance of SSARS No. 23, Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services SSARS No. 22, Compilation of Pro Forma Financial Information SSARS No. 24, Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services -- 2018 SSARS No. 25, Materiality in a Review of Financial Statements and Adverse Conclusions SSARS No. 26, Quality Management for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance With Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services Sample comprehensive engagement work programs for preparation, compilation and review engagements Reporting and disclosure illustrations for each level of service, including attesting on personal financial statements, prescribed form, special purpose framework and other engagement variations Other communication requirements, such as sample engagement letters and management representation letters
Surgent's Technical Business Practice Issues and Tax Forms for Experienced Practitioners
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Schedules K-2 and K-3 and filing exceptions Form 7203 IRS Tax Pro Account IRS modernization initiatives Information Returns Intake System (IRIS) Identity Theft warnings IRS guidance for the marijuana industry “Recycled” Form 1099-NEC to report nonemployee compensation Form 1065 steps for reporting capital Centralized audit regime; late filing penalties and small partnership relief “Substance over Form” argument of shareholder loans Advanced study of “At-Risk” loans Employer W-2 correction requests White House 2024 Budget Points Don't get caught watching the paint dry -- What is hot and new What is terminating S corporations today? Special allocation issues of §704 Final regulations for allocating depreciation recapture to partners and members of LLCs
The Controller Function - Strategic and Annual Planning
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Accounting Finance Auditing
2024 Internal Control Best Practices
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Internal Controls Frameworks
Building Flexible Budgeting Models: Walking Through and Crunching The Numbers
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
2024 How to Audit Expenses & Payables
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Introduction to Auditing Expenses Assertions Risk Assessment
The Impact of ESG Matters on Financial Reporting and Audits
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Overview of the impact environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters have on the financial worldEvolving guidance from the AICPA and other stand-setters related to ESG mattersRisks of material misstatement in financial statements and related disclosures emerging from ESG matters
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
2024 Guide to Deducting Travel, Meals and Entertainment Expenses
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Recent tax legislation, rules and developments impacting travel and meals expense reporting Adequate accounting rules for reimbursements, including accountable plans, going paperless, reimbursement for non-deductible expenses Reporting travel expenses: travel status, simplified per diem "Directly related to" and associated with" tests Facility vs. activity expenses 9 exceptions to Section 274 Business meals: IRS Notice 2018-76; 2023 mileage and per diem rates
2024 Your Front-Row Ticket to the 2024 Accounting & Auditing Season
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Analysis of relevant GAAP provisions Reminders regarding the continuing importance of ASC 606 for revenue recognition Fresh perspectives of lease accounting in the wake of ASC 842 implementation Overview of U.S. GAAP alternatives for certain entities Summary of selected, salient standards for today’s audit, review, and compilation engagements
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
Basis Calculations & Distributions for Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
Detailed coverage of any new legislation affecting basis computations and distributions and changes to the schedule K-1s (including the NEW Form 7203 – S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations) Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect a S shareholder’s stock and debt basis and a partner/member’s outside basis and where the items get reported on Federal individual income tax return The three loss and deduction limitations on the owner’s individual income tax return (i.e. basis, at-risk and other Form 1040 limitations) How cash or non-cash distributions affect the basis calculations and whether or not they are taxable to the owners Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder’s stock in a S corporation and a partner’s interest in a partnership What constitutes debt basis for a S corporation shareholder under the final regulations The tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders and on open account debt How recourse and non-recourse debt effect a partner or member’s basis calculations and amount at-risk
Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Cloud Forensics
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1.5 Credits
Member Price: $59
Forensic Accounting Accounting Auditing Finance
K2'S 2022 Options To Automate Your Tax Preparation Workflow
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Tax automation software options Learn about the best client collaboration options Leave with a checklist of tools to consider your tax practice
2024 Partnerships/LLCs: Understanding Tax Basis Capital Accounts
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Discussion of the impact of the Section 199A flow-through entities deduction on partnerships and their partners The meaning of a “tax basis capital account” -- how do the financial accounting and tax capital accounts differ from one another How to determine a partner’s share of the partnership’s liabilities Distinguishing “recourse” loans from “nonrecourse” loans What are “qualified nonrecourse financing” loans and how they affect partners Review of the Sec. 704 “built-in gain or loss” rules and how they impact Schedule K-1 reporting
2024 Yellow Book Update
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Yellow Book engagements.Independence requirements in GAGAS.Quality management in Yellow Book. Common deficiencies found in Yellow Book engagements.
CFO Series: Audits Begin with The Right Questions: Listen!
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:The need to ask the 'right' questions A core principle of audits not taught in the "textbook". A new type of audit that will simplify your life. Four auditing skills to take you from being a good auditor to being an amazing auditor. The most important element of auditing is listening. Action steps to become a great listener.