CPE Catalog & Events
World-Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application - 8 Hour Version
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Beginning and intermediate cost principles automatically included Covers manufacturing materials, labor, period mfg inefficiencies How to efficiently trace the above costs to products Substantially reduce manufacturing overhead allocation by 60% or more ABC analysis is embedded in the MFG cost system without the need for a separate ABC implementation project Covers fixed and variable MGH overhead of the production department Covers MFG overhead of the manufacturing support departments Identifying certain MFG overhead costs as variable that typically are classified as fixed
ChatGPT: What Every CPA Should Know-Updated
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Overview of the current landscape for AI in businessHistory of ChatGPT and generative AIFundamentals of generative AI technology and related nomenclatureABC's of how to use ChatGPTDemonstration of practical ChatGPT applications for accounting, finance and taxA word of caution: What you should be concerned aboutDeveloping a ChatGPT usage policy for your firm / business
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
Money Laundering Awareness for Accountants
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Money laundering overviewRole of tax examiners and auditorsTax return examinationPre-audit indicatorsAudit flagsReal estate issuesCash indicatorsInternational trade signalsLoan considerationsProfessional service provider concernsMoney laundering and ethics
SSARS Practice Issues and Standards Update 2024
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
• Review of applicable SSARS standards, including standards updates • Review of AICPA professional ethics requirements • In-depth discussion of non-attest services • Review of independence issues for SSARS services • Overview of SSARS #21-performance, documentation and other requirements • Detailed analysis of preparation vs. compilation engagements • Detailed analysis of review engagements
How Fraud Can Affect Smaller Organizations
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics included in this course include:The reasons for fraudFraudulent acts that are initiated against smaller organizationsMethods to stop fraud attempts against small businesses
Internal Controls: Strengthen Security, Efficiency, and Employee Conduct 2024
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
• An overview of control frameworks and concepts • Strategy considerations that can be incorporated into control development • Understanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change or choose not to
K2's Excel Best Practices
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TBD
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
• 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
Leases: ASC Topic 842 in Depth 2024
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TBD
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
• FASB ASC 842, Leases • All recently released updates to ASC 842, Leases
Audit 301: Code of Professional Conduct - Key for Auditors
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Overview of the Conceptual Framework approach to identify threats to principles of the Code of Professional ConductFamiliarity, self-interest, self-review and other independence threatsGeneral requirements and management responsibilities when performing both attest and non-attest services for the same clientSafeguards for common independence threats
State Tax Nexus: Frequently Awkward Questions
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Frequently asked questions about income tax and sales tax nexus New developments Key factors in reviewing potential nexus consequences Nexus road trip to eight large states Tax impacts of remote work Free, multistate resources
Performance Management in Challenging Times
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Building trustProviding valuable feedbackTechniques for active listening
Accounting for Leases
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2.6 Credits
Member Price: $89
Accounting Finance Financial Statement Preparation
Avoiding Budget People Issues: Managing Budgeting's Soft Side
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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
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
Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA)
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
The Rise of Business Intelligence (BI), Business Analytics (BA), and Big Data Why the interest in BI and BA? The analytics continuum How BA can provide a competitive advantage The difference between BI and BA The difference between forecasting and predictive analytics Fundamentals of analytical techniques Examples for the CFO and accounting function Benefits from applying analytics The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the accounting profession
Accounting for and Auditing Cryptocurrency & Digital Assets
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Common applications related to initial recognition and measurement, subsequent measurement or derecognition, presentation, and disclosure of cryptocurrency and other digital assetsFeedback from the AICPA's Digital Assets Working Group intended to assist auditors with opining on these digital records
Surgent's Employee Stock Options: What Financial Professionals Should Know When Advising Their Clients
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
What stock options are and why they are growing in popularity How stock options work, including the process of conveyance and vesting How to exercise stock options and the implications from doing so The risks associated with stock options and how to manage exposure Tax consequences and updates regarding stock options Strategies for selecting the best time to exercise stock options The difference between the two types of stock options: non-qualified and incentive The basic terminology relevant to owning and exercising options
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
The Single Audit from Beginning to End Update
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Introduction Applicable AICPA standards Applicable OMB Circular Gathering information - determining the major programs Identifying risk – identifying the applicable compliance requirements Assessing risk – considering the internal controls over compliance requirements Designing procedures that are responsive to assessed risks – the tests of internal controls and compliance Evaluating single audit evidence