CPE Catalog & Events
ACPEN: Financial Statement Presentation and Disclosure
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
U.S. GAAP and Special purpose frameworks Form and content of financial statements: Balance sheets Income statements; Statements of cash flows Retained earnings and/or owners’ equity statements Comprehensive income Supplementary information Comparative vs. single-period financial statements Sufficiency of disclosures Illustrative disclosures frequently encountered in small-to-medium reporting entities Industry-specific nuances
ACPEN: Audit & Attest Quality Matters that Should be on Your Radar – Avoiding Common Deficiencies in SAS, SSARS and SSAE Engagements
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
Applying professional skepticism to ensure quality work Meaningful risk assessment when designing work programs for various levels of services Proper planning and supervision of all engagements Accountant responsibilities for evaluating internal control Strengthening analytic procedures to support conclusions Complying with the Code of Professional Conduct and quality management standards
ACPEN: Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (§199A) – The Ins & Outs
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
Detailed coverage of calculating the combined qualified business income amount (i.e., QBI component and REIT/PTP component) Determine what trade or businesses under §162 are eligible for the QBI deduction (i.e., rentals and specified service trades or businesses (SSTB)) Discuss how the 20% QBI deduction (i.e., QBI component) is subject to a wage/capital limitation and SSTB income is phased-out for taxpayers with taxable income above the inflation adjusted threshold amounts Walk through the simplified QBI Form 8995 (i.e., taxpayers below the TI threshold amounts) and detailed Form 8995-A and related schedules Determine what wages and unadjusted basis immediately after acquisition (UBIA) are for those subject to the wage and capital limitations Look at what the definition of QBI is and what items are effectively connected with that trade or business (i.e., self-employment tax, health insurance, retirement plans) Review the aggregation rules for the QBI computation and both the entity and individual level Walk through the reporting responsibilities of partnerships and S corporations to their owners on the Schedule K-1s Explain how the modifications to the net operating losses (NOLs) and §461(l) excess business loss limitations affect the QBI computation
ACPEN: Multistate Taxation - Issues and Planning Opportunities
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
Multistate Business Activities Nexus and Implications State Taxable Income Business-Related Issues Formulas and Their Application Audit Defense Strategies State Specific Regulations Choice of Business Entity Interstate Commerce Clauses Domicile in relation to State Death Taxation
ACPEN: K2’s AI – Better Prompts, Better Results
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Components of effective AI prompts The pros and cons of a single large prompt versus multiple small prompts Using prompts to format AI-generated output
ACPEN: Introduction to Forensic Accounting
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1.8 Credits
Member Price: $79
Forensic Accounting Accounting Auditing Finance
ACPEN: Addressing Common Documentation Deficiencies
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
AU-C 230 Auditing Yellowbook
ACPEN: The Controllership Series - The Treasury Function Part 1 - Cash and Investing
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Accounting Finance Cash Investments
ACPEN: Business Ethics - 2 Hour
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Why are ethics so complicated? What trade-offs must we make to solve ethical predicaments? What can we do? Should you speak up or be quiet? What do I do when I find myself in an ethical predicament? What are fundamental ethical principles for a businessperson? Is ethics situational? What is the Fraud Triangle? How do we resolve ethical issues?
Accounting and Tax Ethics: Standards, Issues, & Case Studies 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Threats to compliance with Code of Ethics Updated Statement of Standards for Taxpayer Services (SSTS) Ethical challenges in selecting appropriate GAAP alternatives
Accounting for Income Taxes for Private Companies 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Sample Schedule M calculations Sample work papers for deferred tax computations Comprehensive two-year example and computations Review and analysis of recurring temporary differences Identification of the sources to compute "cumulative temporary differences" Sample workpapers for analysis of tax positions
ACPEN: AI-Enhanced Business Consulting for CPAs: Strategies and Tools
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Business Consulting Types of Management Services Identification of clientneeds Managing Client Expectations Creating Value for Clients Techniques for Effective Consulting Application of AI Professional Standards Application
ACPEN: Fiduciary Accounting & Tax Planning for Estates & Trusts
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Fundamentals of fiduciary accounting Uniform Principal and Income Act Discretionary Power to Adjust Allocations between principal and income Trust accounting 3.8% Net Investment Income Form 1041 - Schedule I Section 645 Election Simple or complex trusts
ACPEN: The Controllership Series - The Controllers Role in Cybersecurity
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Cybersecurity
ACPEN: The Value of Conflict
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Conflict resolution
ACPEN: Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Digital Forensics
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1.8 Credits
Member Price: $79
Forensic Accounting Accounting Auditing Finance
ACPEN: Thinking Like an Auditor When Preparing Your Financial Statements
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Determining an appropriate sense of quantitative and qualitative materiality Identifying the critical components of the financial statements that matter most to financial statement users Evaluating where the financial statements are most likely to contain material fraud and error, and ensuring adequate internal control and monitoring to mitigate those risks
ACPEN: New Client Ethical Challenges: The CPAs Guide
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
How the CPA can meet the challenges presented by a new client AICPA Code of Professional Conduct AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services IRS Circular 230 Case study illustration of how to bring the new client into ethical, proper financial and tax compliance
ACPEN: Forgotten Managerial Accounting Tools
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Cost-volume-profit analysis, including target profit and break-even calculations Variable costing Relevant costs and decision-making Standard costs and variances Activity-based costing Segment reporting and analysis Capital budgeting considerations Overview of Excel capabilities for supporting managerial analysis
ChatGPT Deep-Dive Hands-on Bootcamp for CPAs 26-27
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Getting started with ChatGPT Tour of the ChatGPT app and how to use it Variety of hands-on case study examples for accounting, finance and tax Protecting your data privacy in ChatGPT Advanced ChatGPT features review Subscription plan options