CPE Catalog & Events
ACPEN: Before You Let Them Go: A Whole Brain Approach to Helping Team Members with ADHD Thrive in Your Organization
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Creative Thinking Productivity Neurodiversity Inclusion Employee Retention
ACPEN: The Controllership Series: The Controller's Role in Artificial Intelligence
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1.4 Credits
Member Price: $39
Accounting Finance
ACPEN: Communicating in a Virtual and Live Environment – Numbers Matter But So Do Words
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Tackling the emotions of presenting Use of visuals in presentations Telling stories Who is your audience and why is it crucial? Defining presentations in a virtual and live world dynamic Discuss the overarching themes of effective presentations Building out a presentation with a roadmap order Discuss the types of presentations, including the good and the bad Tips on the right considerations in being effective in virtual presentations
ACPEN: Sub-Recipient Monitoring 2026: Understanding the Pass-Through Requirements for Managing and Monitoring Your Sub-Awards
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Subrecipient vs. contractor determinations under S200.331 Requirements for pass through entities under S200.332 Risk based monitoring methodologies Indirect cost rate negotiation and de minimis rate application The importance of sub-award agreements Using fixed amount award to solve an out-of-the-box matter
Exercise Your Ethics: Techniques to Improve Ethical Response
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Explore research for common answers to "what does ethics mean to you?" and examine whether those are valid.Identify common ethical barriers - reflecting the latest from the ACFE Report to the Nations.Discover ways to improve ethical response.Practice, using practical advice from leading thinkers in ethics.
ACPEN: Fiduciary Accounting for Estates and Trusts
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
10 Principles of Tax Accounting for Trust Income Entity accounting income and Form 1041 Uniform Principal and Income Act Discretionary Power to Adjust Allocations between principal and income Trust accounting issues
ACPEN: The Role of Internal Audit in Enterprise-Wide Risk Management
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Benefits of enterprise risk management Important objectives, components and principles that underlie the COSO Framework Identifying events that could cause objectives to not be achieved Techniques for evaluating both "good" risks (opportunities) and "bad" risks (threats) The roles and responsibilities of key parties throughout an organization in managing risk
ACPEN: Retirement Planning Issues: Where We Stand Now
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Thorough Exploration of Current Retirement Planning Trends and Implications Strategies for Maximizing Retirement Savings within Existing Regulatory Structures Tax-Efficient Navigation of Various Retirement Plan Options Estate Planning Techniques Aligned with Contemporary Trends for Optimal Benefits Insight into Latest Rules for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)
ACPEN: Habits That May Keep You from Promotions, Raises or Achieving Your Potential in Organizations: Small Steps Can Lead to Big Changes
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Leadership Management
ACPEN: Prevention & Detection of Fraud in Small Businesses
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5.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Small Business Fraud Fraud Schemes Fraud Indicators Fraud Detection Fraud Response Fraud Prevention
ACPEN: Impact of OBBBA 2025 on the Individual Taxpayer
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6.0 Credits
Member Price: $189
OBBBA 2025 – New law provisions, those extended or made permanent with and without changes, and those repealed Illustrative example of how the OBBA changes may impact the everyday taxpayer Inflation adjusted rates for 2025 and 2026 Dependent care credit Student loan deduction Review of other individual credits and deductions
ACPEN: Estate Planning for Today and Beyond
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
Analysis of upcoming trends and anticipated shifts in estate planning practices Review of legislative updates affecting estate planning strategies Advanced techniques for minimizing estate taxes and maximizing wealth transfer efficiency Integration of digital assets and technology into estate planning frameworks Consideration of unique challenges presented by blended families, same-sex marriages, and non-traditional relationships
ChatGPT Deep-Dive Hands-on Bootcamp for CPAs
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0.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Getting started with ChatGPTTour of the ChatGPT app and how to use itVariety of hands-on case study examples for accounting, finance, and taxProtecting your data privacy in ChatGPTAdvanced ChatGPT features reviewSubscription plan options
Tax Implications of Retirement Plan Distributions
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Required minimum distributions for a deceased’s heirs2025 retirement plan contribution limitsRequired minimum distributions and contributions to charityKey provisions of Secure Act 2.0
ACPEN: Business Etiquette & Mindfulness
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Communication Business Etiquette
ACPEN: Taking the Financial Executive's Leadership to the Next Level
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Professional/Technical to Business/Behavioral Leader Evolution From Agricultural to Conceptual Age Right Brain Orientation Artificial Intelligence (AI) Perspective to Consider Emotional Intelligence Framework Behavioral Self-Awareness and Self-Management Socially Intelligent Leader/Social Awareness Transformational Leadership
ACPEN: Progressive Management Accounting
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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
ACPEN: K2’s Microsoft Power Tools
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Creating effective dashboard-style reports using Power BI Using Power Query to access and manipulate data, specifically for reporting purposes Taking advantage of Power Pivot to build reports from large quantities of data Automating routine tasks for improved efficiency and accuracy
ACPEN: Topic 842: FASB's Lease Accounting Standard Update
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
What is a lease? Recognition and measurement of lease assets and liabilities Impact on lessors and lessees Disclosures and transition rules Effective dates
Ethics: How to Give and Receive Criticism the Right Way
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Entertaining lecture by a professional presenter, illustrated with relevant video clips and photographs, to cover the main points of the webinarWriting exercises, so you can see how these lessons apply to your own CPA practice and personal lifeTrue stories about CPAs and other leaders to show what can happen when apologies and criticism are done right, and the pitfalls of doing them the wrong way