CPE Catalog & Events
The Corporate Transparency Act - What You Need to Know to Protect Your Client
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
CTA Filing Deadlines: Adapt and synchronize with the new schedules Beneficial Ownership Defined: Navigating the new transparency standards The Alabama Impact: Examining the court's influence on CTA enforcement Risk Management: Strategic navigation through CTA's legal framework Leveraging Transparency: Gaining a competitive advantage through CTA insights Disclosure Obligations: Clarify reporting requirements Corporate Configuration: Comprehend the alterations in structure Avoiding Sanctions: Proactive measures for CTA compliance
2024 Corporate Transparency Act Developments and Proposed FinCen Reporting Requirements for Real Estate Sellers
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Background of the Corporate Transparency Act Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting (BOIR) Rule Entities required to report Reporting requirements imposed by the CTA Due dates of reports Information needed to satisfy the BOIR Impact of failure to report How to submit a report Court rulings on CTA’s unconstitutionality Implications to entities as a result of the ruling in NSB Potential reporting requirements due to FinCen’s proposed rulemaking with respect to non-financed purchases of residential real estate and gratuitous transfers
Planning for Small Business Success
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
The integrated planning model The strategic plan Linkage with Performance Based Management Tracking success Real world examples
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
Assessing Independence Under the New Yellow Book
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics covered in this course include:Threats and safeguardsIndependence RulesGAGAS
SECURE Act 2.0: What You Need to Know
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Expanding Automatic Enrollment in Retirement Plans Increased Age for RMDs Higher Catch-up Contribution Limit Emergency Expense Penalty-Free Withdrawals “Starter” 401(k)s for Certain Employers Part-time Worker Improved Coverage
Surgent's Yellow Book and Single Audits: How to Stay in Good Graces and Out of Bad Places with Your Peer Reviewer
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
The key requirements and audit areas that peer reviewers hone in on when reviewing Yellow Book and single audit engagements Avoiding common pitfalls seen in Yellow Book and single audits How to improve your performance on Yellow Book and single audits while staying in good graces with your peer reviewer
K2's 2023 Best Word, Outlook, And PowerPoint Features
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Creating Word and PowerPoint documents with greater ease and efficiency Enabling critical Outlook options for improved productivity Best practices for working with Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
101 Tax Planning Ideas 2024
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
• Planning opportunities in the tax formula • Different types of planning • Frequently-used planning techniques • Qualitative and quantitative considerations • The connection between tax planning and other financial planning areas, such as retirement, investment, insurance, and estate planning • Looking to the past, present, and future as we plan
Limited-Scope Audits of 401(k) Plans: ERISA Section 103 (a)(3)(C) 2024
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
• Auditing and reporting requirements to meet when the client selects the ERISA Section 103(a)(3)(C) limited scope audit option • AICPA AU-C 703 Forming An Opinion and Reporting on Financial Statements of Employee Benefit Plans Subject to ERISA • AICPA Audit and Accounting Guide ' Employee Benefit Plans ' • Testing participant data
Surgent's Annual Accounting and Auditing Update
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
Recently issued FASB Accounting Standards Updates, PCC Update and items on the FASB’s Technical Agenda Leases – Topic 842 ASC 326: CECL Review of SAS 142 – Focus on Audit Evidence Recently issued SASs and other AICPA activity SSARS No. 25 and other recently issued SSARS Detailed review of SAS 145 Other important A&A practice matters
Surgent's Preparing Individual Tax Returns for New Staff and Paraprofessionals
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Comprehensive coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and The SECURE Act 2.0 Preparation of various Form 1040 individual tax returns and schedules; provided answers include “filled-in” forms Coverage of Form 7203 Coverage of §199A qualified business income, its calculation, limitations, and examples Dividends and interest – Ordinary, return of capital, and capital gain distribution dividends; tax-exempt interest, original issue discount, etc. Security transactions – From Form 1099-B to Form 8949 to Schedule D, plus mutual fund sales and related basis issues Self-employed person issues Schedule C deductions including depreciation Sale and exchange of property – Understanding Form 4797 and depreciation recapture; capital gains A working understanding of passive losses – How to handle rental property and how the passive loss rules flow to the tax forms Itemized deductions – A thorough understanding of what’s deductible and what’s not Interest deductions – Limitations and timing problems Charitable contributions substituting for taxes, IRS says – No! Retirement contributions and education credits and deductions Tax computations – The Kiddie Tax, AMT, regular tax, tax credits Individual problems illustrated by form preparation for various items, with numerous “practice tips” Impact of recent legislation and forms changes on the 1040
The Best S Corporation, Limited Liability, and Partnership Update Course by Surgent
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
Comprehensive coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act, including: The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, The Clean Vehicle Credit, Credit for Previously Owned Clean Vehicles, and Credit for Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicles Comprehensive coverage of the SECURE 2.0 Act with a focus on provisions applicable to employers Retirements and redemptions: considerations for partnerships and S corporations Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Schedules K-2 and K-3 reporting requirements, including the 2022 domestic filing exception and Form 1116 exemption Form 7203, S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations, with examples of how to calculate stock basis Overview of the economics and tax consequences of crowdfunding campaigns Selected Practice and Reporting Issues: What’s new? A review of recent cases and tax law changes and IRS guidance affecting S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships New Form 1099-K reporting requirements Bonus depreciation Section 163(j) Section 174 Research & Experimental Expenditures New FinCEN reporting requirements in 2024 Employee vs independent contractor considerations that companies should be aware of A review of like-kind exchange transactions under §1031 State and local taxes: pass-through entity workarounds Special basis adjustments, including comprehensive examples
Walter Haig's SSARS Prep, Comp and Review Update
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Analysis of the ''Preparation of Financial Statements'' standards as amended by SSARS 26 with detailed implementation guidance.Analysis of the ''Compilation'' standards as amended by SSARS 26 with implementation guidance.Analysis of the ''Review'' standards as amended by SSARS 26 with detailed implementation guidance.Common mistakes made in SSARS engagements as identified in peer reviews and in litigation.
Everyday Ethics at Work: Don't be the Next News Story!
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Discuss ethics from an every-day real-world perspectiveHow to prevent an ethical lapse that can turn your business into the next news story
Promoting Mental Health in the Workplace to Prevent Violence
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Mental Health Awareness
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Belonging
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Why should I be thinking about inclusion? Does racism impact my workplace at all? Where might I be vulnerable and unaware?
The Ethics Hour: Ethics in the Real World
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
The difficult trade-offs in making choices Functioning in the ‘gray’ areas The value of trust Consequences of ‘short-term it-is’ How lack of accountability can lead to ethical issues
Financial Statement Fraud
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Financial statement fraud
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