CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Controllership Skills Update - Budgeting, Forecasting, and Big Data
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Why forecasts and budgets are frequently wrong: behavioral finance; improper goal setting, games, continuing the status quo, traditional budgeting techniques Incorporating strategy into budgets: improving measurement systems; common errors, developing strategies and appropriate measurements Expanding the budgeting framework: rolling forecasts; mission-based budgeting, zero-based budgeting, post-completion evaluations, contingency planning, black swan events, identifying improvements Big data: definition, challenges, goals, current uses/examples, sources of information Analytical tools: ration analysis, benchmarking, Pareto analysis, trend analysis, regression, simulation, dashboards
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
Surgent's Implementing Subscription Pricing to Your Practice
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
The basics of subscription pricing Pricing strategies, with an eye toward a modern model for your business How to implement subscription pricing The need to look back and assess the financial impact of the implementation How to manage customer retention The optimum subscription pricing for your business
Public Speaking Secrets That Wow Audiences
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Overcoming the Common Obstacles to Public Speaking Fear of rejection/ failure and how to overcome From Unconscious Incompetence to Unconscious Competence Toastmasters and practicing by video Act “As If,” Do One Breath Technique to be more relaxed Creating the Content of the Talk What are the concerns of your audience? Talks consist of a title, an introduction, an opening, a body of content, a conclusion and a closing How to Deliver a Talk Effectively The clothes you wear and how you look matter Charisma = energy Smile and act enthusiastic Use self deprecating humor Making the Talk Entertaining Vary the speed of your delivery The Power of stories Memorization and Practice Key word system and note cards Practice thru video or get feedback through others Creating Stories that Rock
K2's Data Analytics for Accountants and Auditors
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Understanding the importance of data analytics in modern business environments Generating and interpreting data analytics using everyday applications such as Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft’s Power BI platform Using regression analysis to create and validate forecasts and projections
What's Going on at the GASB
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Leases SBITAs Public Private Partnerships Revenue & Expense Recognition Financial Reporting Model
K2's 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
Business Tax Update for Industry
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
“Tax-mageddon” – the all-important impending expiration/extension/renewal of the TCJA Other recent Federal legislative, rules and tax developments impacting business taxpayers Current status of Research and Experimentation costs and Interest Expense Limitation Phaseout of Bonus Depreciation and MACRS issues Latest legislative, judicial, and IRS developments
Leadershift Ethics: Things Must Change!
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:The litmus test for all of your decisions and actionsEthical principles when managing through changePressures that threaten ethical change managementCase studies of what can go sideways when ethics are not part of every stage of changeWinning strategies for ethical self-regulation
K2'S Privacy Issues And Solutions - What You Need to Know!
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
The most significant privacy threats today Your browser and search engine and why they matter Privacy policies – the fine print
Anti-Bullying and Sensitivity
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Taking credit for someone else’s work. Repeatedly belittling a co-worker. Withholding essential information. Failing to invite someone to an essential meeting. Ignoring a coworker with the intent to harm or control. Engaging in ongoing passive-aggressive behavior in which words and actions appear harmless but have the intent to harm or control. Constant and unfair criticism. Social bantering and teasing. Yelling, shouting and screaming. Insults and behind-the-back put-downs. Hostile glares and other intimidating gestures. Malicious gossiping. Monopolizing supplies and other resources. Aggressive e-mails or notes. Overt threats and aggression or violence Am I the bully?
AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services: Ethical Considerations
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Review of the new AICPA Statement on Standards for Tax Services Reorganization of SSTS by type of work performed Discuss new standards on data protection, reliance on tools and representation of tax clients before taxing authorities
GASB 96 -SBITA, GASB 94 P3, and GASB 87 Leases (Year 2)
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Requirements of GASB 96, GASB 94, and GASB 87 Implementation of GASB 96, 94 and 87
Hold Your Horses! Could Tighter Reins Have Prevented a Landmark Fraud?
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Key aspects of Rita Crundwell's theft Internal controls that could have prevented the theft Internal controls that could have detected the theft in a timely manner Independence in both fact and appearance Lessons for CPA firms Lessons for government agencies
Business Losses: Going Backward and Forward
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Recent legislative developments for deducting business losses TCJA net operating losses rules of §461(l) §163(j) Business Interest Expense Limitations of deducting losses and basis What is the “quickie” refund; Section 465 At-Risk amount Section 469 Passive Activity Loss rules
The AB5s of Employees and Independent Contractors
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Four ways to classify a worker IRS 20 Factors 20% Section 199A deduction Cost of misclassifying an employee Section 530 relief Game changing impact of the Dynamex case and AB5
The Ethical Management of Conflict
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Professionalism, Conflict and EthicsSources and approaches to conflictManaging Conflict from the Inside: Awareness of human tendencies, human emotions, and gossipGuidelines for managing conflict collaboratively
The Controllership Series - Financial Statement Preparation
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2.6 Credits
Member Price: $89
Accounting Finance Financial Statement Preparation
Income Tax Planning for Bond Investments 25-26
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Active versus passive investing Taxable, tax-exempt, and deferred-tax bonds and the net investment income tax The tax treatment of bonds purchased at a discount or premium Bond swap and U.S. Savings Bond strategies
Microsoft Teams - Everything You Need to Know from A to Z
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Understanding the "big picture" of the role the Teams app plays in your Microsoft 365 ecosystemHow to effectively design your teams / channels configurationDetailed review of all the features for creating conversation postsDetailed review of all the features for creating, editing and managing Office files within the Teams appHow to use the search features to find Teams content instantlyStep by step review of how to host and participate in Teams online meetingsUsing Teams calling features for your phone systemHow to manage your notification settings in TeamsAnd more