CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Top 10 Celebrity Estate Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Overview of estate planning The dangers of a Power of Attorney The most important aspect of a will Role, scope, rights, and responsibilities of an executor Benefits of incorporating a trust Bequests Caring for a pet Claims against the estate Insurance Consequences of poor estate planning
Independence for Auditors - AICPA, PCAOB, GAO & DOL
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Auditing Yellowbook AICPA, GAO, DOL and PCAOB
K2's Securing Your Data: Practical Tools For Protecting Information
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Understanding today’s cybersecurity risks Identifying major cybersecurity risks Implementing specific steps to reduce risk
Partnership Essentials: Review & Update
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Recent legislative, rules and tax developments impacting partnerships and their partners Transfer of partnership interests TCJA §461(l) Excess Business Losses and §163(j) Business Interest Expense Importance of capital accounts Form 1065, Schedules K-1 and M-2 Schedules K-2 and K-3 update Reporting partner capital accounts Effect of the Ceiling Rule Alternative and Remedial Methods Effect on financial capital accounts Tax basis capital accounts
Audit & Attest Quality Matters that Should be on Your Radar - Avoiding Common Deficiencies in SAS, SSARS and SSAE Engagements
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Applying professional skepticism to ensure quality work Meaningful risk assessment when designing work programs for various levels of services Proper planning and supervision of all engagements Accountant responsibilities for evaluating internal control Strengthening analytic procedures to support conclusions Complying with the Code of Professional Conduct and quality management standards
ACPEN Signature 2025: Critical Real Estate Taxation Issues
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
The importance of correctly classifying property as capital gains property, inventory real estate, development real estate and real estate used in trade or business and applicable cost recovery recapture rules Preserving capital gains treatment for pre-development appreciation with a related party lot developer Cost Segregation Studies for Real Estate and their Tax Consequences Qualified Nonrecourse Debt under the At-Risk Rules Distinguishing repairs from improvements and the tax consequences of the difference Tax consequences of renting real estate Common issues in Ground Leases, Percentage Leases and Net Leases Classification as a Real Estate Professional under the PAL Rules and Interaction with the Rental Real Estate Rules and the Aggregation Election for rental real estate Review of current actions by Congress and the IRS affecting real estate.
Surgent's Annual Tax-Planning Guide for S Corporations, Partnerships, and LLCs
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Update on latest cases, rulings, and regulations including the final regs Provisions of Revenue Procedure 2022-19: Relief for S corporations Legislative update on retirement plan changes of the SECURE Act 2.0 How to handle liabilities of LLCs Planning opportunities and pitfalls in determining basis and amounts at risk -- recourse and nonrecourse debt issues for LLCs, and much more Section 199A pass-through deduction planning Partnership planning -- Structuring partnership distributions and transfers of interests Optional basis adjustments -- §§754 and 732(d) Planning for the utilization of §179 and for the scheduled phase out of bonus depreciation Basis, distribution, redemption, and liquidation issues of S corporations Compensation in S corporations Sale of a partnership -- the best planning concepts What you need to know about family pass-throughs -- Estate planning, family income splitting, and compensation planning Partnership and LLC allocations A brief look at possible future changes to the taxation of pass-through entities The who, what, when, where, and how of the new FinCEN BOI reporting requirements
How to Make Difficult People Disappear...Without Going to Jail
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Team dynamics Influence Organizational behavior Leadership
Advanced Excel: Hidden Secrets and Gems
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Awareness of advanced functionsCreative methods for data manipulationUsing intellectual curiosity and professional skepticism to develop a problem-solving mentalityReal-life examples of innovative ways to analyze and report data with ExcelUsing Excel to perform e-mail mergesMany other functions and techniques that inspire you to continue exploring the depths of Excel and its seemingly bottomless toolboxEnhance creativity in your approach to developing Excel models
Getting the Most When Selling a Business: Little Details to Get Top Value
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
What do buyers really want? Steps to take so your business will be attractive to buyers The process to prepare for a sale The steps and timing Pitfalls to avoid The value of a strong advisory team Key considerations
Cryptocurrencies for the CFO: Explaining Blockchain
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
What is money? What are digital assets? Understanding the what, why, and how of cryptocurrencies Understanding the what, why, and how of blockchain NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens), their role and impact Explaining the crypto language
Ethical Leadership: Guiding Principles When Others Falter
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Understanding yourself and others in the workplace How emotion plays a vital role in ethical dilemmas and in solutions What are some of the various outlooks on ethics? Recognizing lies Managing ethics towards solutions
Advanced Excel: Hidden Secrets and Gems
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Awareness of advanced functions Creative methods for data manipulation Real-life examples of innovative ways to analyze and report data with Excel Using Excel to perform e-mail merges Many other functions and techniques that inspire you to continue exploring the depths of Excel and its seemingly bottomless toolbox
Entertainment, Meals & Travel Expenses: Review and Update
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:Definition of what qualifies as an entertainment expenseStrategies to deduct business entertainment expensesDeductibility of mealsSituations not subject to the 50% meals and entertainment reductionHow to handle automobile issues related to employer-provided parkingProper accounting for deductible vs. non-deductible expendituresThe four steps to analyze business expensesThe latest federal legislation, cases and rulings
K2's Taking Another Look At Power BI
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Getting started with Power BI Creating effective visualizations in Power BI Publishing Power BI reports to dashboards Optimizing dashboards for viewing on mobile devices
Not-For-Profit Organizations: Financial Update 25-26
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $139
Financial entity IRS filing status Recent ASC updates affecting nonprofit entities
Financial Statement Analysis for Managers 25-26
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Pros/cons of ratio analysis Cash flow analysis Operating leverage vs. financial leverage Effective financial performance measures
Financial & Tax Accounting for Partnerships & LLCs
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Review of the AICPA financial reporting framework for small and medium-sized entities Integration of these financial reporting approaches with accounting for issues in the formation of partnerships and LLCs Financial accounting issues arising from changes in ownership of partnership and LLCs Financial vs. tax accounting for partnership/LLC capital accounts Review of Section 704(b) substantial economic effect rules and their relation to financial accounting The integration of financial accounting for partnerships/LLCs with the Form 1065 Financial accounting basis for ownership interests vs. tax accounting basis for ownership interests Deferred tax accounting for partnerships/LLCs
All About Fraud - Examples, Prevention and Auditing
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Auditing Yellowbook
How Recent Auditing Standards Improve Risk-Based Audits
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Key changes to audit report elements intended to improve the understandability of the nature and results of financial statement auditsEnhanced required by-product communications with management and those charged with governance to promote more reliable financial statementsClarifications related to obtaining sufficient and appropriate audit evidence, including significant unusual transactions, related parties, going concern uncertainty, and accounting estimatesNew definitions and requirements related to identifying and evaluating risks of material misstatementOther important matters contained in recent SASs