CPE Catalog & Events
Tired of Feeling Drained by Complainers? Build Your Immunity to People's Negativity
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Emotional Intelligence Management Skills Teamwork Customer Relations
Accommodation Requests - Substance Abuse - Contagious Infections
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Accommodation requests - religious practices Accommodation requests - disabilities Substance Abuse - constructive confrontation Substance Abuse - duty to accommodate as a disability Disclosures of potentially contagious infections
Maintaining a Harmonious Working Environment
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Disassociating yourself and your employer from discriminatory comments. Scripts for addressing potential and actual sexual harassment situations. Consensual relationships between leaders and their subordinates. Effective violence prevention measures Survival tactics in active violence situations.
Negotiation Strategy: What to do Before, During and After
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1.8 Credits
Member Price: $69
negotiation
2024 Independence Requirements for Auditors
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Independence Threats Safeguards
Common Audit and Financial Reporting Deficiencies in State and Local Governments
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Financial Statement Preparation Common Mistakes made in Preparing Financial Statements GASB Financial Statement Preparation Standards
Walkin', Talkin', Lookin' & Listenin' - Or Things Most of Us Don't Do Well
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
The importance of making yourself available How to start a conversation and what to NOT talk about The art of how to listen When you don’t understand what they just said Don’t fool by equivocations when they respond to a question Materiality and perception
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
Dealing with Problem Employees: a 15 Step Action Plan for You and Them
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
How turnover is an issue. What are the common causes? How to develop a customized plan for each unique situation? How can we do a better job of preventing 'problem' employees? How to have an effective discussion to end the relationship. A fifteen-step action plan for you to use and for the employee.
Ethics in the Real World - Living Values for Today
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Four root causes of unethical business behavior Eight steps to create an ethical business environment 1. Establish a code of conduct and make it public 2. Hire and promote people with a well-grounded sense of personal ethics 3. Interpret your code for ordinary circumstances 4. Communicate expectations for employees to act in an ethical manner 5. Lead by example 6. Teach employees the basic tools of ethical decision making 7. Back your code with enforcement 8. Factor values into every important organizational activity and decision The financial manager’s responsibility to lead and implement good ethics in his/her organization
Progressive Management Accounting
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
A taxonomy of accounting: tax, financial, managerial A spectrum of direct and indirect absorption costing Fact-based Data with Activity Based Costing (ABC ) Why do we need advanced management accounting techniques, such as ABC? How the ABC cost assignment network structure connects costs to products and sales channels Learn to use ABC to manage product, service-line, channel, and customer profitability Understand two views of costs: (1) process view versus (2) product view Comparing ABC with time-driven ABC, resource consumption accounting (RCA), lean accounting, and other costing techniques Operational Costing to Optimize Process Costs - How driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts lead to productivity improvement and cost reduction Applying “Attributes” to assess ”value-added costs” and “costs of quality (COQ)” The Shift in ROI’s Source from Tangible to Intangible Assets Increasing the ROI from information – with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) as a Value-Multiplier Accelerating the Rate of Adoption for Implementing and CPM Understand the barriers that slow the adoption rate of CPM: technical, misperceptions, model design, and social / cultural How to overcome behavioral resistance to change
What Does Fraud Look Like?
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Why auditors fail to detect fraud Usual vs an unusual transaction Why fraud and stupid often look exactly the same The importance of establishing the Perception of Detection The number one reason fraud occurs Looking for things that should be there Looking for things that should not be there
Conflicts of Interest: Dealing With Ethical Dilemmas in Business and Industry
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Do conflicts of interest matter? Are we aware of common conflicts of interest? What does the Code of Professional Conduct require? How to recognize Conflicts of Interest? Ethical issues regarding competence and gifts and entertainment. Tradeoffs involved in dealing with conflicts of interest? Suggestions on how to avoid conflicts of interest.
Let's End Business Ethics
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Ethics defined Are there business ethics? How to identify ethical issues Deciphering your ethical code Why ethical behavior is good for your business How to make ethical decisions
Profitability Pricing: Boost your Bottom Line
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Competitive bids Achieving target profitability
Up Your Influence: How To Get What You want
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2.5 Credits
Member Price: $89
Persuasion Influence
What's Your Brand Reputation? Determine and Drive How Others See You
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2.5 Credits
Member Price: $89
Presence
Staff Retention Keep the Best People
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Remote workforce Employee retention Staff turnover
The Happiness Advantage: How to Use Positive Psychology to Enjoy Work More, Get More Done, and Be a Better Professional
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
What makes people really happy—and what doesn’t The 3 most important things you can do to increase both happiness and productivity How to handle stress in under two minutes How to deal with difficult people so they don’t bring you down How to use positive psychology principles to help your business
Achieving Balance in Work and Life - Part 2
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Why we get off balance and how to overcome those tendencies Methods that turbo charge motivation, health and happiness The power of culture and friends to affect our lives The importance of clear intention in order to effect change that lasts