CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's Data Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Business and Yourself
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $59
Ethical duty to safeguard employee, client, and litigant data Common threats, including phishing, ransomware, and bad password management Security management of business and personal electronic devices Best practices for creating and securing passwords Insight into how our personal information is exploited in our daily lives
ACPEN: A Guide to Sampling - Part 1
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Auditing Yellowbook
ACPEN: Recognizing Lies: How to Detect and Prevent
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Lies abound Why is it so difficult to call out a liar? How lies devastate Why do we despise lies? What sets liars apart? Deciphering the signals that indicate dishonesty How short-term thinking leads to lies and leads to uncovering lies Analyzing the cues Differentiating concerns and guilt The deception paradox What makes a great lie so great? Proven processes to uncover lies
ACPEN: Taxation of Judgements and Settlements
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2.4 Credits
Member Price: $99
Types of damages or remedies that can be awarded or agreed upon pursuant to litigation. Review of the Internal Revenue Code and regulations governing the taxation of various types of litigation payments. Suggestions for drafting pleadings or settlement agreements.
ACPEN: Balancing Employee and Employer Rights
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Customary management functions Delegation of authority Implementing changes in terms of employment Fundamental duties owed to employer
ACPEN: A Strategic Approach to Understanding Compensation Structures
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1.5 Credits
Member Price: $158
Compensation
ACPEN: The New Quality Management Standards - What Everyone Needs to Know
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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
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: 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: Building an Ethical Culture: Strengthening Your Ethical Backbone
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $85
Ethical Issues over the years Types of Business Ethics Issues Structure and application of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Role of social responsibility in shaping corporate behavior Factors For Evaluating Ethics Ethics 101 and Decision Making Profiling Ethical Culture
ACPEN: Financial Statement Analysis
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
Purposes of financial statement analysis Trend analysis and vertical & horizontal analysis Simple and multivariate regression; Analysis of metrics Assessment of liquidity, solvency, and profitability Using data visualizations The role of qualitative factors
ACPEN: Staff Retention Keep the Best People
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3.0 Credits
Member Price: $109
Remote workforce Employee retention Staff turnover
ACPEN: K2’s Getting Control Of Your OneDrive Account
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Comparing OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint OnlineManaging documents stored in OneDrive Using OneDrive as a collaboration tool Integrating OneDrive with other applications and services
ACPEN: Productivity Hacks for Working Remote
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1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
Virtual Work Remote Work Telecommuting Flexible Work Options
ACPEN: Common Deficiencies in Employee Benefit Plans
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
EBP Auditing Yellowbook
ACPEN: Drive Results with Metrics
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Performance Metrics Budgets
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Health Care, Retirement, and Fringe Benefit Tax Issues
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
ERISA compliance: employee welfare plans and qualified plans Fringe benefit issues: COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care Health care plans: HRAs, HSAs, and other employer-sponsored plans Qualified plan requirements: eligibility, coverage, and vesting
Surgent's Getting Ready for Busy Season: Key Changes Every Tax Practitioner Should Know
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Comprehensive coverage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) The latest IRS guidance on recent tax legislation Hot developments affecting the upcoming tax season Review of new laws and changes in forms to provide a familiarity for the upcoming tax season Key new tax and practice developments and how they impact the current-year tax forms for individuals
ACPEN: LLC's & S Corps -- A Comparative Analysis
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4.5 Credits
Member Price: $169
Comparative analysis of LLCs and S Corporations Entity formation, compliance, and operational structures Self-employment tax and its implications for LLCs and S Corporations Form 2553 preparation and relief for late filings Rev. Proc. 2022-19 and Rev. Proc. 2023-3: analysis and application S Corporation eligibility errors and corrective measures Corporate governance and formalities for both entity types Shareholder stock and debt basis for S Corporations Forms 1120S, 1065, and related schedules (K-1, K-2, K-3) Officer reasonable compensation and general partner guaranteed payments Audit strategies, estate planning, and business continuation planning
Estate Planning: A Comprehensive Overview 26-27
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Intestate succession and probate administration Holding title to assets Lifetime asset transfers and testamentary asset transfer planning Structures to avoid or minimize transfer taxes Living trusts, including A-B and A-B-C, life insurance trusts, terminating irrevocable trusts, use of trust protectors, trust administration during incapacity and post-mortem