CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Controller/CFO Update: Hot Topics Facing Today's Financial Professional
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Economic update Leadership and management changes because of recent developments, including AI Managing for productivity Hiring the best people for the organization New motivation techniques
Surgent's Federal Tax Update
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Comprehensive coverage of individual provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including but not limited to: TCJA provisions made permanent New Tip Income Deduction New Overtime Pay Deduction New Car Loan Interest Deduction New Temporary Senior Deduction Expanded SALT Cap Trump Accounts Comprehensive coverage of business provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including but not limited to: Bonus Depreciation made permanent Increased §179 deduction Changes to §174 R&E Expenditures Changes to §163(j) Form 1099/1099-K changes Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion The Gig Economy - examine key tax implications for gig workers, including Independent Contractor vs. Employee classification challenges and employer reporting responsibilities Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Advanced practice, reporting, and other issues intertwined with advanced planning and discussion ideas
Surgent's IRS Tax Examinations and Hot Issues
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Criteria that the IRS uses to select returns for examination Substantiation requirements for travel, charitable contributions, vehicles, meals, virtual currency considerations, and tax-related identity theft Understanding worker classification determinations on who is an employee and who is an independent contractor Distinguishing S corporation officer’s reasonable compensation issues How the IRS holds persons other than an employer liable for unpaid payroll taxes, a.k.a., the trust fund recovery penalty Tax-related identity theft procedures
ACPEN: Supervised AI Agents as Internal 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.
ACPEN: Professional Skepticism for the Public Accountant
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Self-evaluation of skepticism Requirements set forth by the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Risk assessment Analytical procedures Advice for cultivating your professionally skeptical mindset
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
ACPEN: Before You Let Them Go: A Whole Brain Approach to Helping Team Members with ADHD Thrive in Your Organization
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Creative Thinking Productivity Neurodiversity Inclusion Employee Retention
ACPEN: Federal Disasters - How to Deduct Personal Casualty Losses
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Federal Disaster Relief Act provisions enacted in December, 2024 and July, 2025 Comparison of personal use casualties with business/investment casualties When to claim casualty losses How to postpone casualty gains Filled-in forms examples Time limits for amended returns
ACPEN: Reclaiming Your Energy - 3 Keys to Control Your Chaos and Boost Resilience
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Leadership Professional Development Time Management
ACPEN: Managing Generational and Cultural Variances
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1.6 Credits
Member Price: $79
Management Leadership Cultural Variances Generational Variances
ACPEN: Emerging Risks and Resilience - How Accountants and Finance are Leading the Way - Part 5: Governance, Culture, and Regulatory Risk Pressur
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Risk Management culture Governance processes Workforce management Corporate Financial management Regulatory changes
ACPEN: Communicating in a Virtual and Live Environment – Numbers Matter But So Do Words
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Tackling the emotions of presenting Use of visuals in presentations Telling stories Who is your audience and why is it crucial? Defining presentations in a virtual and live world dynamic Discuss the overarching themes of effective presentations Building out a presentation with a roadmap order Discuss the types of presentations, including the good and the bad Tips on the right considerations in being effective in virtual presentations
ACPEN: Risk Wrangling: Surviving the Modern Business Rodeo
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Risk is the common thread in an evolving landscape Risk assessment Responding to assessed risks Auditing standards Other insights from AICPA guidance Fraud considerations The role of analytics Financial reporting considerations Risk mitigation
ACPEN: Self-Rental Real Estate: Integrating the Passive Activity Rules with the Flow-Through Entity Deduction Rules
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Definition of self-rental property – both for Sections 199A and 469 Self-rental income from directly owned properties and reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E, page 1 Self-rental income from indirectly owned (partnerships, S corporations) and reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E, page 2 Self-rental property and the Form 8582 (passive activity) Self-rental property and the flow-through entity grouping election Self-rental property and ""former passive activities"" rules Real-life situations illustrate the various possibilities and discuss the consequences of failing to comply with the reporting standards
ACPEN: Tax Procedure
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Filing a tax return IRS audit RS Appeals Collections and litigation at courts of original jurisdiction
ACPEN: Internal Audit in The Future
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Internal Audit IIA Standards Emerging Risks Technology
ACPEN: Making Effective Decisions When You Can’t Get Everything You Want
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Decision-making fundamentals Cost-volume-profit refresher Optimization analysis Constraint mitigation strategies Coping with incomplete information Solver and other Excel capabilities Qualitative considerations
ACPEN: Leading Risk Management Practices in a Dynamic Risk Environment - Part 1
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Risk Management Governance Risk Assessment
Surgent's Guide to Partner Capital Account Reporting
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
How a partner’s outside basis and capital account differ Reconciling Schedule M-2 Form 1065 with Partnership K-1 Schedule L IRS requirement to report partner tax basis on the transactional approach Implications if a capital account is negative Deficit restoration accounts and qualified income offsets Modified outside basis method and modified previously taxed capital method Determining a partner’s beginning capital account Beginning capital account for partnerships and partners consistently reporting on the tax basis The two types of adjustments under 754 and how 743 and 734 require different capital account presentations
ACPEN: Taxation of Business Entities
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2.5 Credits
Member Price: $99
Types of business entities (Sole proprietorship, Partnership, Corporation, Limited Liability Company and Limited Liability Partnership) Considerations in choosing a business entity, including taxes, limited liability protection, management & control, funding options & opportunities, tax consequences for the owners and the business. Future tax considerations that will impact various business entities.