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Surgent's Best Practices in Not-for-Profit Accounting and Reporting
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
The key requirements, options, and best practices seen in each of the basic financial statements Today’s core accounting and reporting requirements related to contributions and how to apply them effectively and efficiently How to analyze and incorporate the needs of financial statement users into a not-for-profit’s financial statements and disclosures
Forensic Accounting: Investigating Divorce Cases
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0.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:The role of a forensic accountant in divorce proceedingsThe marketing of forensic accounting services to family law attorneysHow to conduct a financial investigationCommon areas to uncover hidden assets or incomeThe basic calculations in evaluating marital assetsTestifying in depositions and divorce court
ACPEN: Revenue Recognition Topic 606 Contract with Customers - Identify the Contract Part 2
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Revenue Recognition Accounting
ACPEN: A Strategic Approach to Understanding Compensation Structures
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1.5 Credits
Member Price: $158
Compensation
ACPEN: Leaders Eat Last. Why? The Characteristics of Great Leaders
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
What does "Leaders Eat Last" mean Understand human nature and how we work together or not Leadership skills can be taught True leaders care The need for trust Practical lessons from gifted leaders Steps to become a better leader
ACPEN: Budget Mastery: Walkthroughs and Real World Calculations Towards Tying Budgets To Value
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
How to build a flexible budget model that works? What are the steps we can take to budget for economic and external factors beyond our control? How the right Chart of Accounts can simply your work? Budget and GAAP are not the same and why they are fine not to be Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense Using key variables to stress-test your budget
ACPEN: K2’s Collaboration – Best Platforms And Practices
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The primary drivers of collaboration Who are the leading collaboration technology providers Why collaboration sometimes fails Best practices to facilitate collaboration Today's leading collaboration providers and tools
ACPEN: Estimates, Contingencies and Going Concern
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Overview of accounting estimates and uncertainties Going concern accounting and auditing considerations SAS 132 requirements SAS 143 requirements Loss and gain contingencies Guarantees Credit losses Impact on financial reporting and auditing
ACPEN: Rethinking Your Customers to Maximize Profitability: Identifying the Right Clients
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Who is your customer? What is solution-based planning for customer value? Recognizing internal customers (e.g., departments served by finance) Exploring profitability differences between customers with similar revenue Creating and sustaining a customer value pyramid
Power Skills: Professionalism and Client Interactions
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0.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Best practices when communicating with the client.Complicated scenarios for practice.
Surgent's Engagement Letters: Scope and Risk Management
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Essential clauses made simple Keeping independence intact Change orders that prevent fights Stopping scope creep early What insurers and peer reviewers are seeing now
Surgent's Real Estate for Accounting and Finance Professionals
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Rental income and expense calculation and reporting Deciphering Schedule E (Form 1040) Nuances of vacation home rules Passive activity loss rules: foundations and implications Active vs. material participation in rental activities Tax reporting: how to group passive activities Limitations on passive losses: at-risk rules and deductions Classifying rental real estate activities Navigating exceptions in rental real estate taxation
Surgent's International Tax Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Filers
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Residency status for U.S. federal income tax purposes Key provisions of U.S. income tax treaties Overview of the taxation of income from foreign entities Understanding Foreign Tax Credit Identifying foreign-source and U.S.-source income Foreign earned income and housing exclusion Foreign informational form filing requirements
Surgent's Representing a Client in an IRS Audit
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $169
Impact of the Trump Administration on IRS funding Reduction in IRS staffing Potential reduction in IRS’s ability to process and audit tax returns Status of IRS Direct File program Auditing large corporations and partnerships Audits of high income and high net worth individuals Information document requests What happens when a client agrees or disagrees with the IRS’s audit findings The Dirty Dozen for 2025: roadmap to IRS audit issues
ACPEN: Achieve Competency in Three Basic Tool Categories - Master the Fundamentals
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Tools for FSA The 3 P's. The QST trifecta The integrated planning model Performance based management The value chain The balanced scorecard
ACPEN: The Essential Auditing Update with Renee Rampulla
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Hot Auditing Topics Fraud Group Audits Sustainability Quality Management Frequent Peer Review Matters
ACPEN: 2026 Tax Season Update for Business with Steve Dilley
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Update on significant 2025-26 business tax developments and related cases and rulings Review of recent business tax provisions and their integration into tax forms Depreciation changes in Section 179 and Sec. 168(k) bonus depreciation Tax issues impacting “gig” workers, including Form 1099-K Rulings on OBBBA of 2025 business provisions
ACPEN: Common Yellow Book & Single Audit Deficiencies
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Common peer review deficiencies in Yellow Book engagements Common peer review deficiencies in Single Audit engagements Yellow Book requirements (independence, CPE, reporting) Single Audit compliance requirements Internal controls over compliance Compliance testing and major program determination Root causes of audit deficiencies and prevention strategies
ACPEN: K2’s Securing Your Data: Practical Tools For Protecting Information
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Understanding today's cybersecurity risks Identifying significant cybersecurity risks Implementing specific steps to reduce risk
Yellow Book Independence and Single Audit Fundamentals
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0.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:The conceptual framework approach to independenceIndependence threats related to preparing financial statements and accounting recordsConsideration of specific non-audit services that would and would not impair independenceDocumentation necessary to support adequate consideration of auditor considerationFundamentals of a compliance audit performed under the Uniform GuidanceSchedule of expenditure of federal awardsDetermination of major programsUsing the Compliance Supplement Uniform Guidance administrative requirements and cost principles Testing internal control over complianceTesting complianceWriting an audit findingReporting requirements of a single audit