CPE Catalog & Events
Cost and Pricing Models: Creating an Effective Tool
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Building computer costing models & sub models The importance of volume sensitive models Your twelve most important indirect costs Using rate tables Modeling – Professional Services Job Costs Modeling – Repetitive Manufacturing Why return on sales may be an inferior way to plan for profit
Surgent's Applying the Yellow Book to a Financial Statement Audit
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Critical concepts related to applying the new Yellow Book including when the standards are applicable; the types of engagements involved; and the relationship between the Yellow Book and other standards The new Yellow Book standards related to ethics; independence; professional judgment; competence and CPE; quality control; and peer review The new Yellow Book requirements related to performing and reporting on financial audits and how those requirements affect the audit in areas like internal control
Surgent's Ethical Considerations for the CPA
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Examine the CPA's role in today's economy Compare similarities and differences between individual and business ethics Explore the link between ethics, integrity and scruples Discuss the basic attributes of ethics and professional conduct Review the history of the CPA profession and the CPA's requirement to adhere to ethics policies and codes of conduct Review the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct and a CPA's responsibilities to the public, clients and colleagues Discuss the common rules and statutes faced daily in the CPA profession. Case studies may also be utilized to present potential ethical dilemmas CPAs may face during their careers Review CPA Independence violations by current legal case examples
Surgent's Understanding Partnership Taxation: Types of Basis, Contributions, and Distributions
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Three different types of basis Contributions of property IRC 704(b) – Capital Accounts and Special Allocations Contributions of property and debt Contributions of services IRS Notice 2020-43
Enterprise-Wide Risk Management in Accounting and Finance
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Enterprise-wide risk management best practices for identifying, evaluating, and determining how to respond to relevant risks.The importance of risk and uncertainty disclosures in the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements, including evolving risks with cybersecurity and ESG.Coordinating risk management efforts, including the required involvement of corporate governance.How to embed risk management into day-to-day accounting and finance activities.
You Don't Know What You Don't Know About Excel 2024
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
• Excel shortcuts and time savers • Working with templates, formats, styles and themes • Customizing and enhancing Excel • Protecting and securing workbooks • Formula building and the Excel function library
An Exhaustive Look At Fraud and Ways To Control It
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics covered in this course include:Fraudulent acts initiated from outside organizationsWhy internal fraud occursThe importance of fighting cyber-fraudSteps that verify anti-fraud activities are working
Surgent's Annual Tax-Planning Guide for S Corporations, Partnerships, and LLCs
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Wrapping up issues related to COVID-19 legislation Update on latest cases, rulings, and regulations including the final regs How to handle liabilities of LLCs Planning opportunities and pitfalls in determining basis and amounts at risk -- recourse and nonrecourse debt issues for LLCs, and much more Section 199A pass-through deduction planning Partnership planning -- Structuring partnership distributions and transfers of interests Optional basis adjustments -- §§754 and 732(d) Planning for the utilization of §179 and for the phase out of bonus depreciation Basis, distribution, redemption, and liquidation issues of S corporations Compensation in S corporations Sale of a partnership -- the best planning concepts What you need to know about family pass-throughs -- Estate planning, family income splitting, and compensation planning Partnership and LLC allocations A brief look at possible future changes to the taxation of pass-through entities
Surgent's Form 1065 Boot Camp: Step-by-Step Preparation with Completed Forms
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Comprehensive coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Gain a thorough understanding of federal income tax laws for partnerships and LLCs, from formation to tax return preparation issues Filing requirements for Schedules K-2 and K-3 Who files Form 1065, and who does not file Form 1065 Tax Basis Capital Account Reporting Requirements Trade or Business income and expenses versus Separately Stated Items The importance of Schedule M-1 Partnership distributions -- current or liquidating, cash or property How to allocate recourse and nonrecourse debt Self-employment tax issues; court cases and trends in tax audits of earnings subject to self-employment taxes Complete coverage of any new legislation enacted before presentation Section 163(j) limitations Mastering two common tax forms, Depreciation (4562) and Sale of Assets (4797) Final regulations on Section 168(k) Partnership reporting oddities Accurately preparing partnership returns and reconciling book income to taxable income The Centralized Audit Regime under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015
The Best Individual Income Tax Update Course by Surgent
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
Comprehensive coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act, including: The Clean Vehicle Credit, Credit for Previously Owned Clean Vehicles, Credit for Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicles, Residential Clean Energy Credit, Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit, and Premium Tax Credit Comprehensive coverage of the SECURE 2.0 Act, including: Expanding Enrollment in Retirement Plans, Increase in Age for Required Beginning Date for Mandatory Distributions, and New Exceptions to Penalty-Free Withdrawal from Retirement Plans Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation New Form 1099-K reporting requirements Detailed analysis and examples of Sale of Passthrough Entity Interest and Net Investment Income Tax Residency and Domicile Selling a principal residence, including tax planning strategies Real Estate professional requirements Virtual currency, including recent developments regarding NFTs Review of pertinent cases and rulings affecting taxpayers Practice aids, including all the numbers applicable for the current year -- inflation-adjusted amounts, mileage rates, retirement contributions, and more Advanced practice, reporting, and other issues intertwined with advanced planning and discussion ideas
Ethics: How to Give and Receive Criticism the Right Way
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Entertaining lecture by a professional presenter, illustrated with relevant video clips and photographs, to cover the main points of the webinarWriting exercises, so you can see how these lessons apply to your own CPA practice and personal lifeTrue stories about CPAs and other leaders to show what can happen when apologies and criticism are done right, and the pitfalls of doing them the wrong way
Eight Biggest Threats to your business and introducing Three Pillars of Cybersecurity
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Technology Cybersecurity
2024 What's Changing in Risk Assessment
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Risk Assessment Internal Controls SAS 145
2024 Business Tax Update for Industry
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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
Surgent's Privacy and Security Training: Obligations of Confidentiality and Safekeeping
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Obligations of confidentiality and safekeeping Security best practices to apply beyond work Likely causes and effects of a large-scale cyberattack Email security best practices Remote work security Mobile device security Internet of Things (IoT) risks Public Wi-Fi risk and the importance of using a VPN Recognizing and avoiding text message/phone call phishing Data loss prevention (DLP)
Surgent's The CMA's Guide to Project Management
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Establishing a system: identifying forces that support the status quo; setting milestones and goals; the role of the CMA Necessary first steps: set a framework for the project’s activities; identify needed resources; obtain support; decide on a structure; establish a team for a specific project; identify necessary team skill sets Project evaluation: analytical tools, strategic evaluation; sources of risk Maintaining focus: monitoring and measuring results; keeping to the project’s scope Avoiding frequent traps: sunk costs; financing pitfalls; project creep; tunnel vision; failure to integrate the team’s work internally and/or the final project with the remaining organization Introduction and examples of analytical tools throughout the session: mapping; CPM; Gantt charts; benchmarking; Pareto analysis; PESTLE analysis; valuation techniques; post-completion evaluations
Balance Sheet Management: The Least Understood Risk
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Understanding your balance sheet Analyze your balance sheet today and in the future Plan your balance sheet structure Properly balance debt and equity versus other funding sources Know the balance sheet pitfalls and risks to avoid Understand your cost of capital Interpret your cost of capital Evaluate the risks, pros and cons of debt Know how to raise debt Understand the risks, pros and cons of equity Examine alternative methods to raise financing Understand the decision process through real-world examples
2024 Real Estate Tax Issues: Passive Activity, Self-Rental & Section 199A
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
S corporations) entity’s reporting on Form 1040 How "real estate business" is interpreted under the Section 199A rules and how it integrates with the passive activity rules; Real estate professionals and the Form 8582 (Passive Activities) How to make the "grouping" election for passive activities and the flow-through deduction Definition of self-rental property – both for Sections 199A and 469 Self-rental income from directly owned properties and reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E, page 1 Self-rental income from indirectly owned (partnerships, S corporations) and reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E, page 2 Self-rental property and the Form 8582 (passive activity), the flow-through entity grouping election, and "former passive activities" rules A deep-dive look at the Section 199A flow-through entities deduction Calculation of qualified business income Application to rental real estate – “safe harbor” rule and aggregation rules
2024 Retirement Planning Issues: Where We Stand Now
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Thorough Exploration of Current Retirement Planning Trends and Implications Strategies for Maximizing Retirement Savings within Existing Regulatory Structures Tax-Efficient Navigation of Various Retirement Plan Options Estate Planning Techniques Aligned with Contemporary Trends for Optimal Benefits Insight into Latest Rules for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)
Federal Tax Update - Individuals (Form 1040)
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
Discuss the most recent individual income tax legislation passed to date Review numerous individual income tax provisions related to business (i.e., sole proprietors and owners in pass through entities) including but not limited to the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction, §461(l) business loss limitations, §163(j) interest deduction limitations and depreciation. Cover issues related and any changes to the various taxes (i.e., income tax rates, capital gain tax rates, self-employment tax and alternative minimum tax (AMT), 3.8% net investment income tax) Brush up on other topics such as income filing status, personal exemptions, itemized deductions, exclusions from income, adjustments to income, rentals, passive activity rules and individual income tax credits (e.g., child tax credit and dependent care credit) Walk through the NEW final required minimum distribution (RMD) regulations Look at any changes to the Form 1040 and other related schedules and forms