CPE Catalog & Events
Electronic Audit Evidence in Employee Benefit Plans
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Audit evidenceEmployee benefit plans
Managing the Accounting Department
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Accounting Leadership Management
IRS Highly Effective Penalty Relief Strategies
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics covered in this course include:The basis for penalty reliefDiffering options for penalty reliefEmploying an effective strategy using different forms of penalty reliefAppealing any proposed rejectionsA clever penalty relief strategy for full pay case
Setting a New Standard for Quality: Practical Guidance to Implement the AICPA's New Quality Management Standards
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
??????Quality Management Standards Risk Management Compliance and Adoption
Retirement Penalties and Rollover Issues 2024
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
• What the IRS knows: Forms 1099R and 5498 • Exceptions to the ten percent penalty • Secure 2.0 changes to the late payment penalty • History of the 60-day Rule and Recent Developments • Rulings and self-certification • Form 5329 use and strategies
Determining Reasonable Compensation for Owner Employees
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics covered in this class include:An analytical framework for analyzing and opining on reasonable replacement compensation for owner-employees of closely held businesses and professional practices in the context of tax planning, compliance, management consulting and business appraisal assignmentsExecutive compensation components, including the valuation of non-qualified plans and restricted stock units
Surgent's Advanced Trust Issues: A Roadmap for Success in An Increasingly Complex Area
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Key concepts of trusts, including recent trends; best practices; jurisdiction; and ways to avoid pitfalls Decanting Federal estate tax exemption and remaining relevance of trusts Irrevocable life insurance trusts The role of family dynamics Choice of trustee and other fiduciaries State trust-friendly considerations Charitable trusts Delaware Statutory Trusts Powers of attorney Pet Trusts – the emerging necessities State, county, and local issues Portability QTIP issues Creditor considerations Potential IRA problems Problems with re-titling assets
Surgent's The Most Critical Challenges in Not-for-Profit Accounting Today
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Lessons learned (and lessons remaining) from the implementation of FASB ASC 842, Leases, and ASU No. 2020-07 related to contributions of nonfinancial assets Solving contribution conundrums (e.g., conditional contributions, restricted contributions, contributed services, and etc.) Additional issues in not-for-profit financial reporting
Expand Your Analytical Toolbox More Tools for Success
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
5 step valuation process 2 specific valuation approaches The Gordon Model 10 thoughts on banker selection Rating your bank 10 hints for keeping your toolbox full
Financial & Tax Accounting for S Corporations & Partnerships
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Review the Accounting Standards Codification, OCBOA/Special Purpose Frameworks, and AICPA financial reporting framework and their application to partnerships, LLCs and S corporationsFinancial accounting issues arising from changes in ownershipFinancial vs. tax accounting for partnership/LLC capital accountsSection 704(b) substantial economic effect rules and their relation to financial accountingThe integration of financial accounting with Forms 1065 and 1120SFinancial accounting basis for ownership interests vs. tax accounting basis for ownership interestsDeferred tax accounting for partnerships/LLCs and S corporationsFinancial accounting for the operations of a partnership/LLCFinancial accounting impact of the C to S election and the S to C electionFinancial and tax accounting for S corporation shareholder equity and partner capital accountsFinancial vs. tax accounting for loans to and from S corporations and their shareholders
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
QuickBooks ONLINE - Monthly Closeouts and Year-End Cleanups
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:The beginning steps to evaluate, close out and clean up QuickBooks Online files monthly and at year-end for accurate reporting and tax return preparation. Learn why substantiating the numbers in QuickBooks Online on both the Profit & Loss Statement, as well as the Balance Sheet can ensure an accurate tax return that will stand up against an IRS audit.
How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Team dynamics Influence Organizational behavior Leadership
Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities
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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
Resolving Ethical Conflicts
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Standards and techniques for resolving ethical conflict How to have a conversation about a tough issue without having it destroy the relationship What to do when talking fails
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 Budgeting Ideas
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Set up an in-cell drop-down list of budget methods Change the calculations in the cells based on the selected budget method Use names in worksheets
Surgent's Understanding S Corporation Taxation: Shareholder Basis, AAA, and Retained Earnings
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
S corporation earnings layers Observations on earnings layers S corporation basis calculation IRC 351 transactions Four loss tiers Appreciated property distributions
IRAs - Contributions & Distributions for Traditional, Roth, SEP & SIMPLE IRAs
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
An emphasis on newly enacted tax legislation affecting IRAs including the NEW final required minimum distribution (RMD) regulations Contribution limits to and tax treatment of distributions from Traditional, Roth, SEP and SIMPLE IRAs Deductible phase-out limits for Traditional IRA contributions for taxpayers that are active participants in qualified retirement plans Roth IRA contribution phase-out limits as well as tax-free qualified distributions Planning opportunities for conversions to ROTH IRAs Rollover rules to/from different retirement accounts and the one-rollover-per-year limitation The different options of receiving IRA distributions before age 59 ½ and avoiding the 10% early distribution penalty (including substantially equal periodic payments) The required minimum distribution (RMD) rules from IRAs needed to avoid the 50% penalty after the account owner turns age 72 or dies The tax ramifications of spouse and non-spouse beneficiaries and how this affects the RMD calculation after the account owner’s death Overview of health savings account (HSA) eligibility rules, contribution limits and distribution rules
ACPEN Signature 2024: Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
GASB Pronouncements Single Audit Issues Yellow Book Issues Audit Issues Federal Funding Challenges