CPE Catalog & Events
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: Financial Acumen for Today's HR Leader
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Financial Statement Insight Trend Analysis Financial Benchmarks
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: Introduction to Governmental Accounting 103
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Major and Non-major funds Basis of accounting variations Why geography matters in a financial statement report
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
ACPEN: The Seven High Quality Questions that Lead to Success & Solutions
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Tolerations Goal setting Gratitude Setting a 'tone' of success Priorities as a means to mindful living Reflection & Planning as tools to generate clarity & intention Connecting with the wise resource often overlooked in business models
Surgent's Engaging and Managing Young Professionals
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Characteristics that are more dominant among younger working professionals and what distinguishes them from other sectors of the workforce Changes younger professionals seek in the workplace Suggestions on engaging and developing younger workers Best practices by organizations who have successfully integrated younger professionals Expectations as to learning, development, and training Work environments and schedules School-to-work transitions Views on salary, benefits, and corporate ethics Whether younger professionals’ expectations are significantly different from any other generation Strengths younger professionals offer which set them apart from others Common myths pertaining to younger professionals Definitions of success
ACPEN: Advanced IT Audit & Real-World Testing
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $109
Information Technology General Controls (ITGC) Testing Audit Execution Workpapers
ACPEN: Federal Tax Update for Individuals with Doug Van Der Aa
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
"Tax-mageddon" - the all-important impending expiration/extension/renewal of the TCJA Recent legislative, judicial, and IRS developments impacting individual taxpayers 2025 Tax rates and inflation-adjusted figures Cryptocurrency reporting and new Form 1099-DA Form 1099-K and previously unreported income Review of significant changes in individual tax forms Recent federal tax legislation, cases and rulings affecting income of individual taxpayers
ACPEN: Gamed: Why Performance Targets and Incentives Fail and How to Fix Them
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Diagnosing problems with existing performance targets and incentives Designing performance targets (that work in the real world) Designing incentives the drive the intended behaviours and outcomes Avoiding common mistakes, problems and pitfalls with performance targets and incentives
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
ACPEN: Hands-On Tax Return Workshop – S Corporations (Form 1120S)
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
Extensive review of the S corporation income tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative Schedule K analysis– determine if income statement items are separately (i.e. schedule K) or non-separately stated income and expense items Discuss how schedule K items get allocated to shareholders on their schedule K-1s Look at detailed Schedule K-1 information reporting to shareholders needed for the qualified business income (QBI) deduction, 3.8% net investment income tax and business interest expense limitations Talk about the unreasonably low officer compensation issues Learn the special tax treatment of fringe benefits paid to 2% shareholders and family members Schedule M-1 – calculate the reconciliation of income or loss per books with income or loss per income tax return Schedule M-2 – detailed step-by-step calculation of the AAA, PTI, E&P and OAA accounts Basic overview of the tax treatment of distributions including when a S corporation has prior C corporation earnings and profits (E&P) Review the importance and basics of calculating a shareholder’s stock and debt basis Basic overview of the potential S corporation built in gains tax from the conversion of a C to S corporation
ACPEN: Form 1040 Individual Income Tax Prep
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
Overview of Form 1040 and filing requirements Filing status and dependent rules Income reporting, including wages, interest, and dividends Adjustments to income Standard vs itemized deductions Common individual tax credits Introduction to Schedule C and Schedule E Preparer responsibilities, due diligence, and Circular 230
ACPEN: Supervised AI Agents as Public CPA Audit Team Members
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Independent execution: AI agents can perform control testing and analyze evidence across multiple formats. Audit-ready outputs: Deliver high-quality results with speed, accuracy, and consistency. Workflow integration: See how agents fit seamlessly into existing audit engagement processes. Guardrails and governance: Learn the safeguards and governance needed to ensure reliability. Human supervision: Explore the critical role of training data and oversight in producing trustworthy results. Practical applications: Real-world examples of firms already deploying supervised AI agents in audits. Augmentation, not replacement: Understand how AI can support, rather than substitute, on audit teams.
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
Governmental & Not for Profit Fraud 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Review real-world examples of fraud schemes perpetrated against governments and not-for-profits, including misappropriations of cash, grant frauds, vendor frauds, inventory thefts, and payroll frauds Understand and recognize fraud risk and fraud indicators Consider types of fraud prevention programs
Income Tax Planning for Bond Investments 26-27
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Active versus passive investing Taxable, tax-exempt, and deferred-tax bonds and the net investment income tax The tax treatment of bonds purchased at a discount or premium Bond swap and U.S. Savings Bond strategies
ACPEN: Partnership Preparation, Basis Calculations & Distributions – Form 1065 Schedule K & K-1 Analysis
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
Extensive review of the partnership tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes Review the Form 1065 to learn how income statement items get reported on the partnership/LLC tax return (i.e., page 1 versus Schedule K) and flow-thru to the partner/members on Schedule K-1 Analyze the Schedule K-1 line-by-line and discuss where the items get reported on the individual’s Federal income tax return and how the items affect the partner/member’s outside basis Look at detailed Schedule K-1 information reporting to partners/members needed for the qualified business income (QBI) deduction, 3.8% net investment income tax and business interest expense limitations Formation issues including the mandatory allocation of the §704(c) pre-contribution gain or losses back to the contributing partner/member Calculating the tax and §704(b) book capital accounts Reporting recourse and non-recourse debt on the Schedule K-1Tax ramifications and reporting of cash and non-cash distributions including disproportionate distributions of “hot assets” Overview of the §754 election for optional basis adjustments triggering §743 (transfer of interests) and §734 (distributions)
ACPEN: The Psychology of Fraud
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1.5 Credits
Member Price: $79
Fraud Fraud Triangle