CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Tax Update for Client Advisory Services
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Common tax deadlines and penalties Employee Retention Credit – new developments Beneficial ownership information reporting Bonus depreciation changes Form 1099 reporting and changes Online accounts and IP PINs Virtual currency updates Green energy credit compliance
Preparation, Compilations and Reviews—A Practical Workshop 26-27
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TBD
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Preparation Compilations Reviews
Surgent's A Complete Guide to Reporting Form 1099-DA
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Definition of a digital asset for purposes of Form 1099-DA What is a sale of a digital asset affected by a broker on behalf of another person? Mandatory 2025 reporting of gross proceeds information and voluntary reporting of basis information Treatment of sales of digital assets Who is a broker for purposes of Form 1099-DA? Information required to complete Form 1099-DA Reporting closing transactions and covered securities Who is a processor of digital asset payments? How many transactions to report on each Form 1099-DA and how many forms to file for each transaction Optional reporting methods for digital asset transactions Substitute statements for the Form 1099 Reporting a disposition of digital assets held by a widely held fixed investment trust
Surgent's Contract Law for Accounting and Finance Professionals
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Contract formation The necessary components of an enforceable contract Common defenses to enforcement Legal capacity requirements Contract interpretation
Surgent's Controllership Skills Update – Budgeting, Forecasting, and Big Data
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Why forecasts and budgets are frequently wrong: behavioral finance; improper goal setting, games, continuing the status quo, traditional budgeting techniques Incorporating strategy into budgets: improving measurement systems; common errors, developing strategies and appropriate measurements Expanding the budgeting framework: rolling forecasts; mission-based budgeting, zero-based budgeting, post-completion evaluations, contingency planning, black swan events, identifying improvements Big data: definition, challenges, goals, current uses/examples, sources of information Analytical tools: ration analysis, benchmarking, Pareto analysis, trend analysis, regression, simulation, dashboards
Surgent's Excel: Mastering PivotTables
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Explore PivotTable capabilities and functionality Retrieve data from a database and feed it into the PivotTable Pull web tables from web pages into Excel
Accounting and Tax Ethics: Standards, Issues, & Case Studies 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Threats to compliance with Code of Ethics Updated Statement of Standards for Taxpayer Services (SSTS) Ethical challenges in selecting appropriate GAAP alternatives
Audits Under Uniform Guidance—Single Audit & NPOs 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Concepts of the Single Audit under the Uniform Guidance Performing the compliance audit of federal awards, including testing auditee compliance and internal control over compliance Auditor reporting responsibilities including the compliance audit reports, the report on the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, and schedule of findings and questioned costs Requirements for the schedule of expenditures of federal awards, known as the SEFA Update on the OMB Compliance Supplement
Preparation, Compilation & Review Services 26-27
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
All recently issued SSARS standards Financial reporting frameworks Distinguishing special purpose frameworks from GAAP CPAs reporting on financial statements Financial statement disclosures Recently issued ethics standards Peer Review Deficiencies
Preparation, Compilations and Reviews—A Practical Workshop 26-27
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TBD
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Preparation Compilations Reviews
Surgent's Use the Data Model to Build More Powerful PivotTables
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Creating a data model/Power Pivot Building PivotTables from multiple tables Creating Measures Using named sets
Surgent's Trump Accounts Created by OBBBA: A Comprehensive Guide for Accounting and Finance Professionals
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Establishing and administering a Trump Account Who can make contributions to a Trump Account Limits on contributions to a Trump Account Employer contributions to a Trump Account Participation in the pilot program What a Trump Account can invest in Basis tracking for after-tax contributions Taxation of distributions from a Trump Account Rolling a Trump Account into another account The potential advantages and disadvantages of having a Trump Account Opting out of a Trump Account Issues impacting a Trump Account, such as distribution, when the beneficiary turns 18
Surgent's The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA): What You Need To Know
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $199
The $6,000 senior deduction The QBI deduction Changes in the estate tax Wagering losses The SALT cap Tips, overtime, and car loan interest 1099 changes Trump Accounts Investments in students and education Bonus and Section 179 changes, including depreciation for qualified production property Full expensing of domestic research and experimental expenditures Changes in the deduction of business interest and business losses Renewal of Opportunity Zones Individual and corporate charitable contribution changes Expansion of Section 1202 stock Termination of credits for environmentally clean autos and expenditures Many other individual and business income tax changes contained in the OBBBA
Surgent's Reasonable Suspicion
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TBD
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $59
The psychosocial, physiological, and behavioral aspects of drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace The impact of drug and alcohol abuse on workplace safety The possible connection between performance issues and drug or alcohol abuse The role of documentation in reasonable suspicion testing Confidentiality concerns in the testing process
Surgent's The AI-augmented Professional: Practical Tools, Real Risks, and Immediate Use Cases
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Explore from the history of automation to the current landscape of large language models (LLMs) and generative tools to demystify the technology Free, accessible apps to enterprise-grade solutions and specialized accounting software tailored for tax, audit, and advisory workflows Ethical obligations and professional standards that govern AI use, including data privacy, client confidentiality, and the management of "hallucinations" or inaccuracies Through specific use cases and prompting demonstrations, understand how to use AI to draft complex communications, summarize research, optimize Excel workflows, and enhance client advisory services
Surgent's Managing Up the Ladder
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Influence, persuasion, and power Navigating without position power
Surgent's Management Fundamentals
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
What it takes to be effective as a manager Exploring the challenges that get in the way Looking at the driving forces that have evolved how managers engage with employees today Motivating employees of multi-generations Twelve practices that can be adopted to influence employees to become more engaged Identifying what it takes to develop employees Delegation and accountability
Surgent's Where To Live in Retirement
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Does continuing to live at the current location meet retirement goals and lifestyle? Are there family concerns such as an elderly parent that prevent moving away from the current location? Is the current location affordable when income from a salary ceases? What health concerns are there that would limit the ability to move to another location? Is an assisted living facility something that should be considered now or in the future and is a suitable one available? What happens if a person is disabled while retired? Are there state and local tax considerations that would encourage staying in place or moving? Are there climate and weather concerns that would encourage a person to stay in place or move to a more desirable location? Should a retiree downsize?
Valuing A Business: What is This Company Worth” 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
The weighted average cost of capital Discounted Cash Flow analysis Valuation methods The issues and the pros and cons of each method How do you increase the value of a business?
Surgent's The Accountant as the Expert Witness
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Becoming qualified as an expert witness Best practices for testifying at trial Understanding the different roles accountants can play in litigation Working with attorneys to prepare and present a case at trial The role of experts in commercial versus personal injury litigation Confidentiality orders Compensation for expert witnesses Preparing for and attending depositions Daubert challenges to experts Expert reports The role of experts in antitrust, securities litigation, and professional liability cases Credibility as a witness