CPE Catalog & Events
2024 Financial Statement Analysis
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Online
4.00 Credits
Purposes of financial statement analysis Trend analysis and vertical & horizontal analysis Simple and multivariate regression; Analysis of metrics Assessment of liquidity, solvency, and profitability Using data visualizations The role of qualitative factors
2024 Year-End Tax Planning: Thinking Outside the Box
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Online
4.00 Credits
Discuss the most recent tax legislation, rulings and developments Section 163(j) interest expense deduction New 21% corporate tax rate Medicare tax on high income wages and SE income Tax provision and extensions Timing income and deductions Alternative minimum tax (AMT) issues
ACPEN Signature 2024: Annual Tax Update
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Online
8.00 Credits
Our panel of national tax experts will explain as they discuss federal tax changes and developments during 2024 and pending changes, including legislative, administrative and procedural changes of which you need to be aware ACPEN will give you the best information anywhere on current tax issues…current to the day of the broadcast! Explore in detail the latest statutory, regulatory and judicial developments impacting tax issues. Get the latest details and all the developments in this up-to-the minute tax program that you won't want to miss.
ACPEN Signature 2024: Financial Statement Preparation: Compilation and Review Update
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Online
8.00 Credits
Ethics Update Preparation Engagements Compilation Engagements Review Engagements Hot GAAP Topics New Quality Management Standards
Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel
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Online
2.00 Credits
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Learn best practices when designing your spreadsheets How to create a proper worksheet structureLearn to use Excel's built in features to find errorsHow to create your custom controls to prevent and find errorsUsing links to quickly move to controlsUsing Conditional Formatting to highlight errors
2024 Ethical Tax Practice Strategies in a Crisis World
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Online
2.00 Credits
“Tales from the Front” – practice issues CPAs are dealing with in these extraordinary times Review of AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Review of IRS Circular 230 Review of client tax return disclosure rules (Sec. 6103) Crisis impacts on engagement letters, contingent fees, independence, consulting services, attest and non-attest services, billing, and collections
Financial Accounting for Related Party Transactions
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Online
2.00 Credits
The major topics covered in this class include:FASB codification provisions for transactions with related parties, including business owners and special purpose entities.Compare and contrast those rules with the AICPA financial reporting framework for small and medium-sized entities.Review the tax accounting related taxpayer standards.Real-life examples applying the various authoritative standards. Consequences of failing to comply with the standards.
2024 Governmental Auditing Update: Yellow Book & Uniform Guidance
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Online
4.00 Credits
2024 Compliance Supplement Uniform Guidance Quality Management Yellow Book
ChatGPT and the ELI5 Approach for Accounting Professionals
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Online
2.00 Credits
The major topics covered in this course include:Understanding the ELI5 Approach60 Variations of the ELI5 MethodApplication of the ELI5 Approach in AccountingELI5 Case StudiesStrategies for Implementing the ELI5 ApproachUsing ChatGPT to Enhance ELI5 CommunicationRole of Accountants in Leveraging the ELI5 Approach
Business Valuation Fundamentals
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Online
1.00 Credits
Business Valuation Fundamentals The Objective - What type of report is needed? The Process Agreed Upon Procedures Calculation of Value Conclusion of Value Industry Sanity Checks – Would you pay or accept the value if it were your company?
Introduction to Not-for-Profit Accounting
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Online
2.00 Credits
Net Assets Contributions Endowments Programmatic Investments
Drive Results with Metrics
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Online
2.00 Credits
Performance Metrics Budgets
Integrate ChatGPT into Your Client Advisory Services-Updated
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Online
2.00 Credits
The major topics covered in this course include:ChatGPT and generative AI technology primerBuilding your generative AI vocabularyDig deeper into your engagement research to develop a higher quality advisory servicePolish your client reporting with the help of ChatGPTDeveloping your ChatGPT client advisory servicesStart with client education. You don’t need to be a technical expert to be an educatorUse AI to help your clients automate their workflows / business processesBuild better spreadsheets with ChatGPT and ExcelHelp your clients identify, evaluate and select applications for their business
SAS No. 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit
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Online
3.00 Credits
The importance of professional skepticism The dangers of making assumptions How to listen and understanding the answer to a question Why it is important to leave all of your expectations at home Anticipation and why it’s so dangerous Determining materiality The fraud triangle Thinking about, given a set of circumstances, how you would steal Management and the Tone At the Top
Achieving Balance in Work and Life - Part 2
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Online
4.00 Credits
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
Communication Miracles At Work and In Life - Part 2
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Online
4.00 Credits
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
2024 Financial Statement Presentation and Disclosure
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Online
4.00 Credits
U.S. GAAP and Special purpose frameworks Form and content of financial statements: Balance sheets Income statements; Statements of cash flows Retained earnings and/or owners’ equity statements Comprehensive income Supplementary information Comparative vs. single-period financial statements Sufficiency of disclosures Illustrative disclosures frequently encountered in small-to-medium reporting entities Industry-specific nuances
2024 Real Estate Tax Update
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Online
4.00 Credits
Recent tax legislation, rules and developments impacting real estate owners and investors Section 179 for qualified real property Section 179 for non-residential roofs, HVAC fire protection and security systems Section 163(j) interest expense limitation, including electing out and ADS depreciation Introduction to opportunity zones
Microsoft 365 Application Lightning Round Review-Updated
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Online
1.00 Credits
The major topics covered in this course include:Lightning round review of the following apps, with an explanation and demonstration of what each of them offersTeams - the foundation of all that you do in Microsoft 365SharePoint / OneDrive - secure cloud storagePower BI - the new financial reporting modelStream - the YouTube for your organizationBookings - streamline your appointment scheduling OneNote - get your content organized for quick retrieval Lists - create custom list tracking reportsTo Do - consolidate all your Outlook, Planner and general "to do's" in one appPlanner - manage simple and complex engagements and projects in an intuitive appA quick look at many of the remaining apps
2024 New Client Ethical Challenges: The CPAs Guide
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Online
2.00 Credits
How the CPA can meet the challenges presented by a new client AICPA Code of Professional Conduct AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services IRS Circular 230 Case study illustration of how to bring the new client into ethical, proper financial and tax compliance