CPE & Event Catalog
Forgotten Managerial Accounting Tools for CPAs WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Target profit analysis. Break-even analysis. Relevant costs and decision-making. Standard costs and variances. Activity-based costing. Segment reporting and analysis.
Audit 104: Audit Documentation - Workpapers To Pass Review WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Proper documentation as a means of audit quality. Factors impacting the nature and extent of documentation. Sample workpaper index and other organization tips. Use of audit programs as means of audit documentation. Checklist for self-review of workpapers and clearing review notes. Multiple exercises on identifying workpaper deficiencies.
2024 Common Deficiencies in Employee Benefit Plans WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Common deficiencies. DOL. EBPs.
IRS Highly Effective Penalty Relief Strategies WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The basis for penalty relief. Differing options for penalty relief. Employing an effective strategy using different forms of penalty relief. Appealing any proposed rejections. A clever penalty relief strategy for full pay case.
Power BI - Prepare Your Data Efficiently for Excel Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Getting data into the correct structure. Data sources that you can access. Working with multiple tables and data sources. Steps to import data for analysis. Introduction to Power Query and Get and Transform.
Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA) WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The rise of Business Intelligence (BI), Business Analytics (BA), and Big Data. Why the interest in BI and BA? The analytics continuum. How BA can provide a competitive advantage. The difference between BI and BA. The difference between forecasting and predictive analytics. Fundamentals of analytical techniques. Examples for the CFO and accounting function. Benefits from applying analytics. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the accounting profession.
2024 Best Practices: Conducting Meaningful Walkthroughs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Internal controls. Walkthroughs. Documentation.
2024 Communication Skills for CPAs WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Pervasive best practices for effective communication. Specific strategies for written materials. Unique considerations for verbal presentations. The importance of recursive revision. Tips for success. Pitfalls to avoid.
Sustainability: Doing Well by Doing Good WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Triple bottom line. Sustainable business practices. Incorporating sustainability into every business decision.
Get started with Power BI WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Overview of the Power BI Tools: Introduction to the Power BI ecosystem, including Excel's Power BI features and standalone tools. Tour of the Tools: Introduction to the interfaces of Power Pivot, Power Query, Power BI Desktop and Power BI Services. Comparative Analysis: Understand the strengths and limitations of Excel's Power BI features versus standalone Power BI tools. Strategic decision-making on when to use each tool for optimal efficiency and accuracy in data analysis tasks.
The ABCs of Advisory Services WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Understanding the concept of integrated planning (financial, estate, asset protection, and tax planning). Changes in the landscape of a tax practitioner's practice. The bridging of services. Getting started - Where do your clients fail?. Understanding the primary planning issues for all clients. Estate and Gift issues. Traps, pitfalls, and tips in planning. Practical steps in establishing a tax advisory and wealth management services practice. Domicile issues.
More Money: Strategic Ways to Improve Cash Flow WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
How do I optimize cash flow? Qualitative evaluations - core earnings and sustainable growth. Quantitative evaluations - liquidity ratios. Increasing customer base vs. Payment terms. Business cycle and cash. Investing company cash. What keeps companies from becoming streamlined? Behavioral finance biases. Information processing biases. Emotional biases. Dealing with behavioral biases.
Project Management: Employ Best Practices and Mindset WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The science of project management: reporting and analytics, documentation, forecasting and scoping. The art of project management: the mindset and influencing change.
GAAP Alternatives: The Perfect Storm of Accounting Updates WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Review of special purpose frameworks. Discussion of non-GAAP options for financial reporting. U. S GAAP alternatives for certain entities.
2024 Annual Update for Accountants and Auditors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Leases. Accounting standards. Tax disclosures. Quality management. Group audits.
How AI Is Automating Internal Control WEBINAR
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An explanation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
Examining ASC 842, Leases: More Than Meets the Eye WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). Overall lease accounting guidance. Lessor Accounting 101. Lessee Accounting 101. Detailed review of accounting by lessees and lessors. Sale and leaseback transactions. Transition guidance. Other operational issues. Recently issued updates to the lease accounting guidance. FASB guidance on accounting for COVID-19-related rent concessions. Feedback from the public company adoption of Topic 842.
Key Cybersecurity Controls for CPAs WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The five key tenets of cybersecurity: Identify, Detect, Protect, Respond, Recover. Review specific cybersecurity controls within each of the five cybersecurity tenets. How to appropriately assess key cybersecurity controls.
Power BI - Create Excel Dashboards for Maximum Impact WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Dashboard design guidelines. Using Excel features to create visuals. Using visuals to create dashboards. Introduce new Power BI tools that enhance visual and dashboard creation.
The Single Audit from Beginning to End Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Introduction. Applicable AICPA standards. Applicable OMB Circular. Gathering information - determining the major programs. Identifying risk - identifying the applicable compliance requirements. Assessing risk - considering the internal controls over compliance requirements. Designing procedures that are responsive to assessed risks - the tests of internal controls and compliance. Evaluating single audit evidence.
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