CPE Catalog & Events
Al Capone to Cybercrime: The Journey of IRS Special Agents
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Introduction to IRS Criminal Investigation (CI): Overview of its mission, role, and significance in maintaining tax compliance.Historical Evolution: From its inception in 1919 to its current role, highlighting key milestones and notable cases.Investigative Techniques and Tools: Detailed look at the methods and technologies used by CI agents to uncover financial crimes.Importance of IRS CI: Discussion on the impact of CI’s work on tax compliance, public confidence, and the broader financial system.Training of CI Agents: Insight into the rigorous training programs at FLETC and ongoing professional development.Process of Investigations: Step-by-step breakdown of how tax fraud and money laundering cases are initiated, investigated, and prosecuted.
Internal and External Fraud: Understanding It and Working to Control It 25-26
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Understanding why internal fraud occurs Fraudulent acts initiated by outside organizations Policies, procedures and control measures designed to fight fraud Steps that verify anti-fraud activities are working
How Changes in Business Methods Affects Internal Control
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics covered in this class include:How is business changing.What is driving the change and how long will it last.How specifically is an organizations control system important.What steps are needed to “keep up” with the upheaval.
Surgent's Advanced Critical Tax Issues for Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
Coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Single-member limited liability companies as an alternative to subsidiaries Cancellation of indebtedness: rules and regulations How the IRS views members or partners for Social Security purposes Special problems when forming an LLC Debt issues and problems in structuring LLCs and LLPs, including loan guarantee issues, recourse and nonrecourse debt, the at-risk basis rules, and new regulations restricting “bottom dollar” guarantees Distributions: is it just a disguised sale? New regulations eliminate certain tax-deferred leveraged partnership transactions Death or retirement of a member or partner -- Understanding the alternatives Step-up in basis issues -- How to make the computations and elections Property transactions between the LLC/LLP and its members or partners -- Inbound and outbound transactions: what to do with built-in gain or loss property Partnership losses: when are they deductible? See, in particular, TCJA and CARES override Material participation rules for LLC members and limited partners: how they affect passive loss issues Continuation and termination of an LLC/partnership in the context of a merger or acquisition Sales of an LLC Interest -- holding period, and hot asset issues Impact of the tax on investment income on the sale of an interest in a partnership or LLC Repeal of technical termination of partnership provision Impact of Soroban Capital Partners LP, 161 TC No.12
Understand Yours and Other People's Styles: Meet Them in the Middle and Be More Effective in Generating Great Results!
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Communications Self-Awareness Leadership
Accounting and Disclosure Issues After a Natural Disaster
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Current and noncurrent asset impairment. Insurance claims and related recoveries. Debt and liquidity issues. Government assistance and relief. Subsequent Events. Lease modifcations. Other matters.
A New Productivity for the New World. Goal Achievement for the 21st Century, A Whole Brain Approach
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Mindfulness Creative Thinking Productivity Performance Neuroscience Leadership
The Ethics Hour: Accounting Scandals: What Happened and Why? Can We Prevent Them?, featuring Tracy Cooper and Don Minges
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Why do some choose to deceive, cheat and steal Can accounting scandals be prevented A brief history of accounting scandals What to look for What should ethical professionals like you do
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
The shift to “predictive accounting” for Decision Making, Planning, and Budgeting Problems with traditional annual budget processes Develop a driver-based “operational budget” based on resource capacity planning Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable Create closed loop capacity plans Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts Integrating enterprise risk management (ERM) with management accounting Applying target costing for cost estimating
Budget Mastery: Process, Problems, and Solutions
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Defining the budget process Common budgetary cultures and discussion of solutions Does your budget need an overhaul or just a tune up? How to make the budget flexible Making a better budget and maybe even a better you (or at least improving the perception of the budget work itself)
K2'S Eight Awesome PivotTable Features
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Adding user-defined calculations to PivotTables Enhancing PivotTables with Key Performance Indicators Using PivotTables to consolidate “standard” Excel reports Creative ways to filter PivotTables Linking accounting software data into PivotTables
SEC Case Studies: Ethical Dilemmas in Finance and Accounting
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Introduction to Ethics and Ethical DilemmasEthical Codes and Professional StandardsFraud and the Fraud TriangleEthical Decision-Making ModelsFinancial Statement Manipulation TacticsCash Flow and Key Metrics Misrepresentations
Surgent's Ins and Outs of Health Savings Accounts
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Benefits of an HSA How an employer sets up an HSA How individuals qualify to set up an HSA High deductible health plans and how they relate to an HSA Eligible medical expenditures Annual contributions to an HSA Importance of enrollment in Medicare Qualified HSA funding distribution
Topic 842 - Implementing Leases Workshop
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Accounting Yellowbook Leases Standards ASC 842
Guide to Preparing Form 1041 for Estates and Trusts
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Current rates and brackets Calculating a trust's AGI Filing requirements, deadlines and penalties 3.8% Medicare surtax on net investment income (NII) Simple vs. complex trusts Grantor Trusts: Four options to report activity Section 643 (g) Election Taxable income of trusts, estate and beneficiaries
How AI Is Automating Internal Control
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics covered in this class include:An explanation of Artificial Intelligence (AI).Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
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
KPI Bootcamp for Small Businesses
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5.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Turning strategy into KPIs KPI shortlisting and selection KPI definition KPI implementation KPI deployment
How to Get a Better Return on Financial Statement Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Risk-Based Audit Concepts
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Properly assessing inherent, control, and fraud risk on an engagement, and linking the results to an appropriately tailored detailed audit plan based on risk assessment and client service goals, regardless of entity type (for-profit, nonprofit, governmental) Leveraging strong substantive analytic procedures as audit evidence to cut back on tests of details The most common efficiency opportunities for tailoring your audit approach based on risk How to use the workpaper review process as a tool for producing a more effective and efficient engagement Using audit documentation to enhance audit quality, while ensuring every workpaper has a purpose How to use the client to your advantage in planning and performing the audit Learn how to get the engagement out the door – on time and on budget!