CPE Catalog & Events
Hiring Remotely: Using Personality Assessments for Better Hiring Decisions
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Remote Hiring Best Practices Personality Assessments in Hiring Effective Integration of Personality Assessments Minimizing Bias and Ensuring Cultural Fit
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
Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Computer Forensics - Part 3 (Steganography)
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1.6 Credits
Member Price: $59
Forensic Accounting Accounting Auditing Finance
Surgent's Adapting to OBBBA Changes: A Strategic Review
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Business losses The SALT cap Implementing Section 1202 changes Form 1099 reporting changes Business meals Health care–related issues Family and medical leave Other crucial OBBBA provisions
Surgent's Improving Your Profits: Identifying Cost Cutting Opportunities
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
What keeps companies from becoming streamlined? Behavioral biases Information processing biases Emotional biases How to deal with behavioral biases Connecting behavioral biases to cost cutting Creating a culture of cost cutting Rules of thumb for cost cutting Managing headcount Post-COVID common areas of excess cost Budgeting techniques Budget variances Benchmarking Common size financial statements Horizontal analysis Negotiation and contracting techniques Cash flow and the business cycle
Surgent's Social Security: Dispelling Common Myths with Essential Truths
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Will Social Security be there for me? How is my benefit calculated? Can I claim my benefit and work too? When do I stop paying Social Security taxes? Why does my government pension cause my benefits to be reduced? Can I claim spousal benefits now and my own later? What is my breakeven? Can I claim benefits from my ex-spouse? What do you mean I may pay taxes on my income benefits? … and more!
Surgent's Workplace Harassment: How to Prevent Harassment and Reduce Liability Risks in Today’s Changing Environment
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
An overview of workplace harassment and discrimination laws, including the intangible benefits that come with compliance An overview of sexual harassment and workplace retaliation The supervisor’s (or manager’s) role in preventing harassment and in reducing the company’s potential liability through good faith efforts at compliance Review a compliant procedure for handling harassment concerns
Surgent's Engagement and Client Retention Best Practices
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Managing client expectations How automation improves client engagement Understanding the role of feedback systems Seeking referrals Building client loyalty Customer retention marketing Expanding services offered to clients Knowing when it is appropriate to enter new markets
Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $59
Each week’s topics will change based on the most critical issues affecting financial professionals
Just Ask Why - Searching for Answers: Generating Solutions
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
The basic benefits of why The 5-15 report Curiosity and creativity
The Head and Heart of Ethics - Featuring Bob Mims and Don Minges
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
The difficult trade-offs in making choices. Functioning in the ‘gray’ areas. The value of trust. How lack of accountability can lead to ethical issues.
Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Computer Forensics - Part 1
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Forensic Accounting Accounting Auditing Finance
Revenue Recognition Topic 606 - Identify the Contract Part 1
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Revenue Recognition
The New Quality Management Standards - What Everyone Needs to Know
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Overview of the new quality management standards Focus on the most important elements of a quality management system Implementation tips that everyone in the firm should know Audit and attest standards impacted
Navigating Leaves of Absence
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Family Medical Leave Act - full time and intermittent Americans With Disabilities Act Special rules for managers Handling fraud, abuse, and performance issues in connection with a leave of absence
Ask Me No Questions and I Will Tell You No Lies - The Art of Interviewing & Interrogation
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Defining an interview Why we choose to believe or not believe someone Types of individuals you will be talking with Why people lie Types of liars Unsharable needs Verbal and nonverbal clues How to listen Obtaining a confession
Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Computer Forensics - Part 2 (Cryptology)
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Forensic Accounting Accounting Finance Auditing
Ethical Situations - What to do When?, featuring Allison McLeod and Don Minges
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Intentions versus results. Is using the ‘Threats Based Approach’ always the best? What is, “The clean hands rule,” and how does it apply to Ethics? Situations where Ethics is not black-and-white.
Revenue Recognition - Topic 606 Overview
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1.5 Credits
Member Price: $59
Revenue Recognition on Contracts with customers
Be the Sun, Not the Salt, featuring Harry Cohen and John Daly
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
What is the Heliotropic Effect? Be the Six Sun Pearls. Today is a good day to do good Be the bright spot in the room Be your own sun Do the next right thing Pet peeves bite Knowing isn't doing