CPE Catalog & Events
ACPEN: Navigating IRS : Responding to IRS Notices & Letters
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Types of IRS letters: audits, collection, balance due, unreported income How to respond to CP2000, CP14, CP75, CP504, and other notices Steps to take upon receiving a letter: deadlines, records, prep Penalties and interest associated with non-response Sample response structure and real-life examples Documentation and tracking practices for correspondence Common mistakes and how to avoid them AI-supported correspondence management and ethical considerations
ACPEN: Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) Domain IV - Part 1
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $99
Internal Audit GIAS Standards Institute of Internal Auditors Accounting Auditing
ACPEN: Data Analytics & Journal Entry Testing for Auditors
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3.5 Credits
Member Price: $109
Data Analytics Journal Entry Testing Fraud Detection
ACPEN: The Essential Guide to Understanding Private Company Financial Statement Disclosures with Renee Rampulla
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Common Private Company Accounting Policy Disclosures Numerous Sample Lease and Revenue Disclosures Unique OCBOA Disclosure Requirements and examples Research Techniques
ACPEN: Ethical Tax Practice Strategies in a Crisis World
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
"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
ACPEN: Common Sense CFO: Crisis Management, Innovation, and Other Expectations Put on CFOs
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Championing the role of innovation in the workplace Crisis management What does it mean? What is our role? The roles we take on and differences between the roles we are assigned? Current and future trends and expectations for financial leaders and CFOs Top ten crucial skills for 2035 from the Far Side’s wisdom
ACPEN: Advanced Excel: Hidden Secrets and Gems
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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
ACPEN: An In-Depth Understanding of the Generation Skipping Transfer Tax
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Overview of the GST tax and its policy purpose Direct skips, taxable terminations, and taxable distributions Skip persons and treatment of trusts as skip persons Application of the GST exemption and inclusion ratio Timely, late, and retroactive GST allocations Formula-based exemption allocations Planning strategies for GST tax minimization Filing considerations for Forms 706 and 709
ACPEN: Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) Domain IV - Part 2
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Internal audit Standards GIAS Accounting Auditing
ACPEN: Navigating IRS Collections: Overview of Form 433 & Offer in Compromise
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
IRS collection process overview Initial notice and subsequent notices Enforced collection actions: liens, levies, and wage garnishments Payment options and alternatives to enforced actions Detailed review of Forms 433-A & 433-B Offer in Compromise (OIC) program: qualifications and process Advising clients on compliance and payment options
ACPEN: Analytical Procedures: Practical Applications and Standards
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Analytical procedures in audit and review engagements Practical examples and illustrations of analytical procedures The order of operations for accomplishing analytical procedures
ACPEN: Corporate Ethics Cases: Discuss Real Life Conflicts
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Can you protect the public interest without violating our profession's confidentiality rules? How can a corporate world CPA get in trouble with their board of accountancy? Is a culture of fear and intimidation particularly susceptible to corporate fraud? How can using the CPA credential get a corporate accountant in trouble? Is exaggerating your CPE hours a violation of our professional codes of conduct? What are your options when your employer is clearly breaking the law? Does any legislation provide effective Whistleblower protection?
ACPEN: Exploring the 10 Types of Leadership: Styles and Strategies for Success
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Overview of ten distinct leadership styles Adapting leadership to different situations, teams, and organizational culture Characteristics, strengths, and limitations of various leadership style Self-reflection and identifying personal leadership tendencies Flexibility and adapting leadership approaches when circumstances change Strategies for team engagement and performance improvement
ACPEN: The Hardest Ethical Dilemma! Why Revenge Will Always Backfire, featuring Bob Mims and Don Minges
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
The quest for fairness Human nature Our natural reaction Selfishness Conflicts of interest Equity Justice How is the Golden Rule misused? The allure of revenge and how it destroys? Understanding rationalizations How the “Integrity and Objectivity Rule” will lead to better decisions?
ACPEN: The Controllership Series - The Controllers Role in Strategic Thinking and Advising - Part 1
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1.8 Credits
Member Price: $89
Controller Management Financial Strategy Strategic Thinking Critical Thinking Financial Judgment
ACPEN: Benefits and Best Practices for Telework
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Communication Business Management
ACPEN: Financial Accounting for Related Party Transactions
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
FASB codification provisions for transactions with related parties, including business owners and special purpose entities Compares and contrasts those rules with the AICPA financial reporting framework for small and medium-sized entities Reviews the tax accounting related taxpayer standards Several real-life situations illustrate the various authoritative standards and discuss the consequences of failing to comply with those standards
ACPEN: Managing Your Money in Retirement
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $109
Social Security Retirement Asset allocation Fraud
Surgent's Section 199A: Schedule K-1 Reporting by Relevant Pass-Through Entities
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
The latest guidance from the IRS provided through regulations or administrative announcements Reporting requirements for all relevant pass-through entities Reporting for multiple activities within one entity Allocating common items among multiple activities Section 199A Schedule K-1 reporting for tiered entities Calculating and reporting qualified wages and the unadjusted basis immediately after acquisition of qualified property Allocating §199A relevant amounts to beneficiaries of trusts using DNI Handling separately stated items for which qualified business income status is determined at the shareholder or partner level The effects of ownership changes on §199A reporting on Schedule K-1 Reporting publicly traded partnership income and REIT income to the partners or shareholders Reporting aggregated activities Allocating §199A amounts to partners when special allocations have been made by the partnership
Surgent's Industry Accountant Key Performance Metrics
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Key tools used by businesses and financial professionals across the globe to measure performance Detailed, real-world examples of businesses utilizing these tools