CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Excel: Mastering PivotTables
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TBD
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
ACPEN: Data Analytics & Journal Entry Testing for Auditors
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TBD
3.5 Credits
Member Price: $109
Data Analytics Journal Entry Testing Fraud Detection
How Recent Auditing Standards Improve Risk-Based Audits
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TBD
0.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Key changes to audit report elements intended to improve the understandability of the nature and results of financial statement auditsEnhanced required by-product communications with management and those charged with governance to promote more reliable financial statementsClarifications related to obtaining sufficient and appropriate audit evidence, including significant unusual transactions, related parties, going concern uncertainty, and accounting estimatesNew definitions and requirements related to identifying and evaluating risks of material misstatementOther important matters contained in recent SASs
Calculating the Retirement Need
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TBD
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Overview of retirement expenses and needsOverview of risk tolerance, time value of money and retirement planning factorsExamples of client retirement situations
NotebookLM Use Cases for Accountants
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TBD
0.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:NotebookLM fundamentals: notebooks, sources, prompts, and outputsTurning financial PDFs into searchable, conversational knowledge basesAudit and assurance use cases: workpaper synthesis and issue trackingTax and regulatory research: comparing guidance across sourcesCross-referencing: tracing claims back to documents for defensibilityDrafting deliverables: memos, client notes, and executive summariesRisk controls: confidentiality, data handling, and “trust-but-verify” habits
Surgent's Best Practices in Not-for-Profit Accounting and Reporting
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
The key requirements, options, and best practices seen in each of the basic financial statements Today’s core accounting and reporting requirements related to contributions and how to apply them effectively and efficiently How to analyze and incorporate the needs of financial statement users into a not-for-profit’s financial statements and disclosures
Forensic Accounting: Investigating Divorce Cases
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TBD
0.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:The role of a forensic accountant in divorce proceedingsThe marketing of forensic accounting services to family law attorneysHow to conduct a financial investigationCommon areas to uncover hidden assets or incomeThe basic calculations in evaluating marital assetsTestifying in depositions and divorce court
ACPEN: Revenue Recognition Topic 606 Contract with Customers - Identify the Contract Part 2
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TBD
1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Revenue Recognition Accounting
ACPEN: A Strategic Approach to Understanding Compensation Structures
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TBD
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $158
Compensation
ACPEN: Leaders Eat Last. Why? The Characteristics of Great Leaders
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
What does "Leaders Eat Last" mean Understand human nature and how we work together or not Leadership skills can be taught True leaders care The need for trust Practical lessons from gifted leaders Steps to become a better leader
ACPEN: Budget Mastery: Walkthroughs and Real World Calculations Towards Tying Budgets To Value
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
How to build a flexible budget model that works? What are the steps we can take to budget for economic and external factors beyond our control? How the right Chart of Accounts can simply your work? Budget and GAAP are not the same and why they are fine not to be Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense Using key variables to stress-test your budget
ACPEN: K2’s Collaboration – Best Platforms And Practices
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TBD
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: Estimates, Contingencies and Going Concern
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TBD
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: Rethinking Your Customers to Maximize Profitability: Identifying the Right Clients
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TBD
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
Power Skills: Professionalism and Client Interactions
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TBD
0.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Best practices when communicating with the client.Complicated scenarios for practice.
Surgent's Engagement Letters: Scope and Risk Management
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Essential clauses made simple Keeping independence intact Change orders that prevent fights Stopping scope creep early What insurers and peer reviewers are seeing now
Surgent's Real Estate for Accounting and Finance Professionals
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TBD
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
Rental income and expense calculation and reporting Deciphering Schedule E (Form 1040) Nuances of vacation home rules Passive activity loss rules: foundations and implications Active vs. material participation in rental activities Tax reporting: how to group passive activities Limitations on passive losses: at-risk rules and deductions Classifying rental real estate activities Navigating exceptions in rental real estate taxation
Surgent's International Tax Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Filers
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TBD
3.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Residency status for U.S. federal income tax purposes Key provisions of U.S. income tax treaties Overview of the taxation of income from foreign entities Understanding Foreign Tax Credit Identifying foreign-source and U.S.-source income Foreign earned income and housing exclusion Foreign informational form filing requirements
Surgent's Representing a Client in an IRS Audit
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TBD
3.0 Credits
Member Price: $169
Impact of the Trump Administration on IRS funding Reduction in IRS staffing Potential reduction in IRS’s ability to process and audit tax returns Status of IRS Direct File program Auditing large corporations and partnerships Audits of high income and high net worth individuals Information document requests What happens when a client agrees or disagrees with the IRS’s audit findings The Dirty Dozen for 2025: roadmap to IRS audit issues
ACPEN: Achieve Competency in Three Basic Tool Categories - Master the Fundamentals
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Tools for FSA The 3 P's. The QST trifecta The integrated planning model Performance based management The value chain The balanced scorecard