CPE Catalog & Events
Power BI - Bringing It All Together for Data Analysis
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include: Building a Comprehensive Workflow in Power BI: Streamline and enhance your end-to-end data processes for improved efficiency and clarity.Exploring What's Next After Creating Data Models and Measures: Understand advanced strategies to further enhance the value of your existing data models.Best Practices for Performance Optimization: Learn key tips to ensure smooth, fast, and reliable performance in your existing data models.Leveraging Your Data Model Through PowerBI.com/Power BI Services: Explore advanced functionalities of Power BI Services to make your data insights more accessible and impactful.
Surgent's Understanding S Corporation Taxation: Shareholder Basis, AAA, and Retained Earnings
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
S corporation earnings layers Observations on earnings layers S corporation basis calculation IRC 351 transactions Four loss tiers Appreciated property distributions
Surgent's Update on the SECURE 2.0 Act
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Automatic enrollment requirements for 401(k) plans Change in the credit for small employer pension plan startup costs $2,000 saver’s match Changes in pooled employer plans Multiple employer 403(b) plans Increase in age for required beginning date for mandatory distributions Indexing IRA catch-up limit Higher catch-up limit to apply at age 60, 61, 62, and 63 Treatment of student loan payments as elective deferrals for purposes of matching contributions Application of credit for small employer pension startup costs to employers who join an existing plan Small immediate financial incentives for contributing to a plan Withdrawals for certain emergency expenses Starter 401(k) plans for employers with no retirement plans Improving coverage for part-time workers Recovery of retirement plan overpayments Tax treatment of IRAs involved in a prohibited transaction Clarification of substantially equal periodic payment rule
Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS) Domain III - Part 1
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2.5 Credits
Member Price: $79
Internal Audit GIAS IPPF Standards Accounting Internal Controls
2025 Not-for-Profit Accounting & Auditing Update
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Yellowbook Auditing Accounting
Surgent's Ethics for the Industry Accountant
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $179
What are ethics? Why study ethics? Ethical responsibilities of CPAs Professional code of ethics and conduct AICPA Codification – updated Ethical dilemmas CPA vision Real disciplinary cases to illustrate critical points
Nonprofit Internal Control - Practical Insights into Mitigating Financial Reporting, Compliance and Other Risks
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Recognizing the importance of each of the key components of a sound system of internal controls over financial reporting, regardless of a nonprofit entity's nature, size or complexity Understanding the critical role of information technology (IT) general and application controls to reliable financial reporting, even in less-complex IT environments Exercise in documenting an understanding of the design of internal controls for common classes of transactions for nonprofit entities Identifying and evaluating the sufficiency of key controls to satisfy control objectives Understanding the importance of verifying whether an understanding of the design of internal controls has actually been "implemented", and how to exactly go about doing that
Real Estate Tax Issues: Passive Activity, Self-Rental and Section 199A
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Integration of the real estate professional rules with reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E Real estate professionals and indirectly owned (partnerships, S corporations) entity's reporting on Form 1040 How "real estate business" is interpreted under the Section 199A rules and how it integrates with the passive activity rules Real estate professionals and the Form 8582 (Passive Activities) How to make the "grouping" election for passive activities and the flow-through deduction Definition of self-rental property - both for Sections 199A and 469 Reporting using Form 1040, Schedule E, page 1 and 2 Self-rental property and the Form 8582 (passive activity)
K2's Data Analytics for Accountants and Auditors
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Understanding the importance of data analytics in modern business environments Generating and interpreting data analytics using everyday applications such as Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft’s Power BI platform Using regression analysis to create and validate forecasts and projections
Steps to Stop External Fraud
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:Types of external fraudConsiderations as organizations work to reduce fraud riskExternal fraud and known parties/External fraud unknown perpetrators
Surgent's Guide to Payroll Taxes and 1099 Issues
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Statutory employees, independent contractors, and possible changes to §530 relief Using SS-8 Payroll Tax Penalties -- Who is a responsible person? Forms W-2, 1099, 1099-NEC, SS-8, W-4, 941, and Form 940 reporting/deposit requirements and due dates Understanding payroll tax responsibilities in the gig economy
Surgent's Preparation and Compilation Engagements Under the SSARS
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Relevant sections of SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification, and updates to SSARS No. 21 due to the issuance of SSARS No. 23, Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services SSARS No. 22, Compilation of Pro Forma Financial Information SSARS No. 24, Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services – 2018 SSARS No. 26, Quality Management for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance With Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services Proposed changes to the SSARS guidance Comprehensive sample engagement work programs for preparation and compilation engagements Prescribed form, specified line item, pro forma, and other engagement variations Complete illustrations of relevant engagement letters, reporting and other required communications for preparation and compilation engagements
Surgent's Reasonable Suspicion
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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
Mental Illness & Depression: Understanding & Supporting Employees Under the ADA
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Mental illness and depression Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Productivity Hacks for Working Remote
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Virtual Work Remote Work Telecommuting Flexible Work Options
Powerful Public Speaking
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1.5 Credits
Member Price: $39
Communications
Liquidity & Uncertainty Disclosures for Nonprofits
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Required disclosure related to liquidity and other significant uncertainties for fair presentation of financial statements Evaluating the need for going concern and other uncertainty disclosures in the current environment
Asset Misappropriation - Let Me Count the Ways
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Identifying opportunity The three most common behavioral red flags that we should always look for The many ways to commit check fraud (it’s so easy) Why inventory is such a good place to hide theft of assets How to cover up inventory fraud Accounts Receivable Fraud and how it works How to count inventory that’s not there
Considerations of Fraud
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
AU-C 240 Auditing Yellowbook
Ethics: 10 Crucial Qualities of High Character CPAs
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Discover why the ten crucial qualities of high-character CPAs are essential to your successLearn how to evaluate these qualities in job candidates and why you must do so