CPE & Event Catalog
Governmental Accounting & Auditing Conference 2026 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
16.0 Credits
GASB updates. Single Audit updates. Changes in federal funding and grant management. Cyber security, AI, and data security risks specific to government operations. Economic trends impacting state and local governments. Emerging issues affecting Washington . The state of the CPA profession. Communication and presentation skills.
2026 Washington Ethics and New Developments with Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, Washington ethics rules and recent changes, new developments, best practices for CPAs in public accounting and industry, case studies, and Washington administration and enforcement.
Shortcuts that Excel Users Love WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The power of keyboard shortcuts. Often used features with more capability than meets the eye. New helpful features.
Advanced Excel Topics for Spreadsheet Power Users WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Using Excel for graphical output and dashboard reporting. Data tools and the Data Analysis ToolPak. Advanced functions and complex formulas. Working with Excel tables and PivotTables.
CFO Series: Decision Making in An Irrational World WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
How and why ambiguity is good, and how certainty can be harmful. How the past blinds us to the real future. The difference between risk and uncertainty. Managing measurable risk and unmeasurable risk. Why have our current planning approaches failed. The need to analyze decisions from multiple perspectives. Probabilities are not necessarily predictive. How statistics can be misused and misunderstood – thus increasing risk, and more.
International Tax Conference 2026 IN PERSON
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Bellevue
8.0 Credits
Expatriation. Compliance considerations for trusts and estates. Generational wealth transfer for global families. Succession planning strategies across borders. Intangible tax planning for businesses. Recent UK tax law changes affecting U.S. expats. Timely updates on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Women's Leadership Summit 2026 IN PERSON
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Bellevue
8.1 Credits
Strengthen your leadership presence. Navigate challenges with confidence. Foster inclusive, high-performing teams.
High-Net-Worth Clients: Income Tax Planning WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Strategies for maximizing the date-of-death step-up in basis Tax-loss harvesting and proactive loss-management techniques Qualified retirement plans and optimization strategies Planning approaches to reduce required minimum distributions (RMDs) Real estate investing strategies for tax efficiency Asset allocation across taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free accounts Charitable giving structures and tax-saving opportunities
Washington State Tax Conference 2026 IN PERSON
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Redmond
8.0 Credits
Washington legislative updates. Sales tax on services. SALT considerations related to M&A. Multi-state tax updates. Economic trends.
Compilations, Reviews, and Preparations: Engagement Performance and Annual Update WEBCAST Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
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. 25, Materiality in a Review of Financial Statements and Adverse Conclusions. SSARS No. 26, Quality Management for an Engagement Conducted in Accordance With Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services. Sample comprehensive engagement work programs for preparation, compilation and review engagements. Reporting and disclosure illustrations for each level of service, including attesting on personal financial statements, prescribed form, special purpose framework and other engagement variations. Other communication requirements, such as sample engagement letters and management representation letters.
Self-Employment Tax for LLC Members WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Which LLC members are subject to self-employment tax. How does self-employment tax apply to spouses of LLC members. Guidance the IRS has issued to its auditors on taxpayers following the proposed regulations issued by the IRS. How to minimize self-employment tax for LLC members. Which members benefit from paying self-employment tax. New cases on the application of self-employment tax to limited partners, including Denham Capital LP and the “functional analysis test” and the 5th Circuit’s January 2026 decision in Sirius, which overturned the Tax Court.
Key Tax Issues Facing Business & Industry WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
2026-27 legislative update and review of key business tax issues. Section 163(j) interest expense limitation. Business losses. Capitalization, expensing and depreciation rules. New travel and entertainment expense rules. Fringe benefits. Independent contractor vs. employee. Latest legislative, judicial, and IRS developments.
Common Deficiencies in SSARS Engagements WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The most common peer review findings.
Financial Statement Disclosures: A Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Financial statement disclosures for small and medium-sized businesses. Balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows presentation and disclosure issues. Disclosure examples from all-sized entities that you can use to base your disclosures on. Developing disclosure issues, including disclosures related to the adoption of ASC 606 and ASC 842.
WSCPA Membership Summit 2026 IN PERSON
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Bellevue
7.0 Credits
Practical tools for leadership, decision-making, and resilience. Insight into the economic, legislative, and risk forces shaping your profession Stronger connections across firms, career stages, and areas of practice, and more!
Progressive Management Accounting WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
A taxonomy of accounting: tax, financial, managerial. A spectrum of direct and indirect absorption costing. Fact-based Data with Activity Based Costing (ABC ). Why do we need advanced management accounting techniques, such as ABC? How the ABC cost assignment network structure connects costs to products and sales channels. Learn to use ABC to manage product, service-line, channel, and customer profitability. Understand two views of costs: (1) process view versus (2) product view. Comparing ABC with time-driven ABC, resource consumption accounting (RCA), lean accounting, and other costing techniques. Operational Costing to Optimize Process Costs - How driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts lead to productivity improvement and cost reduction. Applying Attributes to assess value-added costs and costs of quality (COQ). The Shift in ROI's Source from Tangible to Intangible Assets. Increasing the ROI from information with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) as a Value-Multiplier. Accelerating the Rate of Adoption for Implementing and CPM. Understand the barriers that slow the adoption rate of CPM: technical, misperceptions, model design, and social / cultural. How to overcome behavioral resistance to change.
ChatGPT and Advanced Accounting Research WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The accounting research transformation: Comparing Google vs. AI methodologies. AI ecosystems and specialized models for accounting applications. Advanced prompt engineering techniques for financial and tax research. AI-powered search engines and deep research platforms for accounting professionals AI as an ideation and thinking partner for complex accounting problems Specialized accounting research tools and AI superstores. Persona priming and P&P stacking methodologies for optimal AI interactions. Ethical considerations and limitations of AI in accounting research. The compliance chess effect: AI's impact on tax planning and regulatory response. AI-driven automation for regulatory updates and compliance monitoring.
Making Excel Formulas Work for You WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Understanding formula conventions. Working with functions. Examples of powerful Excel formulas.