CPE Catalog & Events
Walkin', Talkin', Lookin' & Listenin' - Or Things Most of Us Don't Do Well
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TBD
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
2024 Partnership Essentials: Tax Basis Capital Accounts
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Importance of capital accounts Reporting negative tax basis Tax accounting for property contributed to a partnership Pre-contribution appreciation Effect of the Ceiling Rule Allocation of depreciation to partners Alternative and Remedial Methods Effect on financial capital accounts Form 1065, Schedule K-1 Tax basis capital accounts
ASC 842, Leases: Implementation Issues and Lessons Learned
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:FASB's Accounting Standard Update for Leases (ASC Topic 842)Key differences between ASC Topic 842 and ASC Topic 840Implementation options, entries, practical expedients, and remeasurement-triggering eventsFASB ASU 2023 - 01 - Leases (Topic 842): Common Control Arrangements
2024 Tax Season Update for Individuals with Steve Dilley
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Update and integration of recent tax legislation impacting 2024 individual returns Update on significant individual tax developments related to cases and rulings Individual tax changes including the earned income credit, child credit, and child and dependent care credit Section 199A changes, including use of carryforward passive activity and 199A losses and latest tax forms Crypto reporting update 2025 tax rate schedule and other inflation adjusted items; Passive activity and hobby loss rules changes
The Ethic of Self-Esteem For Women
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Self-Esteem: What is it?Belief systemsBenefits of High Self EsteemMinimizing traps of low Self EsteemComponents of High Self Esteem
The Omniverse and Metaverse for Accountants
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Brief History of Experience-Sharing TechnologiesOmniverse and Metaverse BasicsThe Enterprise MetaverseLeading Case Studies and Platforms to DateNon-Fungible TokensDigital TwinsImmersive LearningRemote PresenceReality Editors and Product ExperienceVisual InspectionSynthetic MediaImmersive ExperiencesHolodeck TechnologyUniversal Basic RealityMetaverse Starter Strategy for Accountants
2024 Practical Excel Topics for the Public Accountant
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Data validation Underutilized, but powerful, formulas Formulas for manipulating, transforming, and cleansing data Formulas for data analysis Reference formulas such as =VLOOKUP Pivot tables
Beyond the Numbers: Success Strategies for Female CPAs
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:How to increase your visibility instead of flying under the radar.Critical time management techniques that allow you to focus and prioritize the right strategic initiatives.How your inner critic operates and how to silence it.How to build a network of community support and mentoring.What impostor syndrome is and how it may be holding you back.
Surgent's Work-Life Balance: Maximizing Productivity and Understanding Related Tax Issues
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Discuss how productivity strategies may improve work-life balance Understand the state tax consequences that may arise when working from home Identify and discuss challenges unique to financial professionals Review how some organizations are providing support to improve work-life balance Explore the role of alternative work arrangements Examine challenges unique to auditors versus tax professionals A comparison of work-life balance between public and industry accountants How work-family conflict varies among financial professionals Recommendations for improving work-life balance
Communication Miracles At Work and In Life - Part 2
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
1. Why people behave as they do, and how you can effectively motivate anyone to cooperate with you How to judge if your communication is effective in motivating someone How to get someone to really hear you How to communicate so that someone will happily do what you want 2. How to create trust and get people to like working with you The 3 most important keys for getting someone to feel rapport with you Why rapport is so important, and how to use it to profit in your work How to quickly solve problems with people once you have their rapport 3. How to handle difficult people Why some people are difficult to deal with, and what you can do about it How you can turn a difficult employee or customer into a powerful asset How to easily solve problems with people who are upset at you 4. Secret techniques that super-successful communicators use How Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are similar, and how you can tap into their "magic abilities" The three most important keys all successful communicators use
K2's 2023 Excel Best Practices
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TBD
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Best practices associated with creating Excel workbooks, including managing workbooks How to secure Excel workbooks Collaboration options and best practices in Excel Effective reporting techniques in Excel
Partnership/LLC Taxation: Tax Basis Capital Accounts
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Discuss the impact of the Section 199A flow-through entities deduction on partnerships and their partnersThe meaning of a "tax basis capital account"How the financial accounting and tax capital accounts differ from one anotherDetermine a partner's share of the partnership's liabilitiesDistinguish "recourse" loans from "nonrecourse" loansWhat are "qualified nonrecourse financing" loans and how they affect partnersSection 704 "built-in gain or loss" rules and how they impact Schedule K-1 reportingSection 4655 "at risk" rules and how they impact Schedule K-1 reporting
SAS 145 - Risk Assessment
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TBD
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
SAS 145 Risk Assessment Internal Controls
2024 A Guide to Sampling - Part 1
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Sampling Monetary Unit Sampling
2024 Best Practices: Conducting Meaningful Walkthroughs
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Internal Controls Walkthroughs Documentation
2024 S Corporation Essentials: Stock & Loan Basis Reporting
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Basis of stock and debt Form 1040, Schedule E Shareholder basis of indebtedness Limitation of deduction of losses AAA and distributions
K2's 2024 Small Business Accounting Solutions And Add-Ons
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Current landscape of small business accounting software Strengths and limitations of critical solutions Effective add-ons and integrations Implementation strategies
Peer Reviews of SSARS Engagements
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Basic requirements of an engagement review.Qualifications for serving as a peer reviewer.Involvement of peer review administrators and technical staff, peer review committees, AICPA, state boards of accountancy.Engagement selection criteria, information to be provided to the peer reviewer, the evaluation of engagements, the synthesis of matters, the nature of the reports, what happens if there is a nonconforming engagement, follow-up actions required by the committee.Common engagement review findings and tips for passing peer review.
Achieving Balance in Work and Life - Part 1
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Why the brain can remember some things a hundred times better than others Why we typically forget names and faces, and what can be done about it How our emotions follow the motion of our body, and how that can be used to instill instant confidence How to tap into a completely relaxed and/or confident state of mind in 10 seconds or less using advanced hypnotic conditioning and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques How to prevent dementia and brain “fog” using specific supplements and exercise How to stay motivated to use the methods outlined in this course to advance your career and achieve a higher quality of life How to use the concept of constant learning to help you maintain a balanced and fulfilling
2024 Tax Season Update for Business with Steve Dilley
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Update on significant 2023-24 business tax developments related to cases and rulings Review of recent business tax provisions and legislation Depreciation changes in Section 179 and Sec. 168(k) bonus depreciation Tax issues impacting “gig” workers, including Form 1099-K The Schedules K-2 and K-3 of Forms 1065 and 1120S related to foreign transactions