CPE & Event Catalog
2025 Mid-Year Tax Update WEBCAST - presented by the Oregon Society of CPAs
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Major provisions of recently enacted (and newly effective) federal tax legislation. Recent important court cases, regulations, rulings and related developments affecting individuals, C and S corporations, partnerships, businesses, estates/trusts and retirement plans. Recent IRS behavior and its impact. Tax planning opportunities created and freed up by late breaking tax developments.
Financial Planning Concepts and Techniques: Beyond the Basics WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Incorporating investment services into a CPA practice. Risk management strategies for financial planning. Insurance requisites and tax implications, including life, health, and long-term care insurance. Overview of education funding options. Asset protection principles and methodologies. Common missteps in financial planning and strategies to prevent them. Required minimum distribution (RMD) rules and their application.?
IRS Tax Examinations and Hot Issues WEBCAST - presented by the Oregon Society of CPAs
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
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. Tax-related identity theft procedures
2025 Washington State CPA Ethics by Jim Rigos WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An increased sensitivity for factual situations leading to accounting ethical issues and potential legal dilemmas. More confidence in your personal and professional accounting ethical judgments Familiarity with AICPA and Washington State Board ethical reporting and compliance procedures with particular emphasis on different or elevated Washington treatment. This course contains case study scenarios demonstrating numerous actual reported Board cases. Identifying dollar claim and possible risk reduction techniques and procedures of potential client or third party legal or ethical claims. 4 hours of CPE credit approved by the Washington State Board of Accountancy.
WSCPA Annual Meeting 2025 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.5 Credits
Understand what truly drives people. Unlock your team’s full potential. How your passions outside of work make you a stronger, more innovative professional. How to build stronger organization. And more!
Advanced Taxation Partnerships and LLCs WEBCAST - presented by the Idaho Society of CPAs
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Allocation of partnership and LLC income under IRC Section 704(b). Allocations with respect to contributed property - Section 704(c)(1)(A). Allocation of partnership recourse liabilities under Section 752. Allocation of partnership nonrecourse liabilities and related deductions under Sections 752 and 704(b). Advanced distribution rules. Adjustments to the basis of partnership or LLC assets. Sale of an interest in a partnership or LLC. "Hot" assets and Section 751 (a). Section 754 elections; Sections 734(b) and 743(b) adjustments - Section 708 technical termination.
Mid - Year Tax Strategies: Planning for Individuals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Legislative changes affecting individual tax planning. Income, deduction, and credit planning strategies. Form 1040 issues: divorce, death of a taxpayer, and status updates. Compensation, fringe benefits, and Social Security updates. Foreign reporting, resident alien, and cryptocurrency tax matters. Capital gains, Kiddie Tax, and related deductions.
Prix Fixe: QuickBooks Online Unlocked: Simplify and Streamline Your Accounting WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Tips and tricks for maximizing efficiency in QuickBooks.
Construction Contractors: Non-Revenue and Non-Lease Accounting Considerations WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Types of contractors. Non-revenue GAAP accounting for contractors. Contractor financial statements. Sureties and their place in the construction relationship.
Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update WEBCAST - presented by the Idaho Society of CPAs
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
GASB updates. Updated Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs). Yellow Book and 0MB updates affecting single audits. Ethics updates for governments and not-for-profit entities.
Yellow Book: Staying Compliant With Government Auditing Standards WEBCAST - presented by the Idaho Society of CPAs
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Foundation and principles of generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS). Yellow Book compliance requirements. Independence and professional judgment. Competence and continuing professional education. Quality control and peer review. Standards for financial audits, attestation engagements, and reviews of financial statements. Fieldwork and reporting standards for performance audits.
Strategies in Charitable Giving: Financial and Estate Planning Techniques WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Charitable gift annuities and their use in planning. Life insurance mechanisms for charitable giving. Charitable remainder trusts (CRATs and CRUTs). Charitable lead trusts and advanced planning strategies. Role of community and private foundations in charitable planning. Retirement plan gifts. including IRAs for charitable donations. Donor-advised funds and pooled income funds. Testamentary gifts and their strategic significance. Conservation and fa‡ade easements. Supporting organizations and their role in charitable planning.
Prix Fixe: 2025 Single Audit Update WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The 2025 Compliance Supplement. Common audit deficiencies found in Single Audits.
Member Exclusive: Beyond the Basics: Building Your Network for Your Best Clients WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Strengthen your professional network.
Prix Fixe: Latest Development in International Tax WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
New regulations, treaties, and compliance requirements.
Social Security and Medicare: Planning for You and Your Clients WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Legislative developments. A full chapter devoted to determining the best planning options for maximizing joint Social Security benefits. Retirement benefits: Amount of benefits in various circumstances; how the amounts are distributed within the family unit. Qualification: Has the client retired? How business entities may be used for Social Security advantage, Income taxation of Social Security: avoidance tactics, Spousal benefits: Should a spouse return to work? What benefits does a spouse have and when and how do they relate to benefits decisions by the client? When can hiring the spouse increase overall benefits? Why should both spouses qualify for survivor benefits? Disability benefits, When to start Social Security benefits: Advantages and disadvantages at ages 62, full retirement age, and 70, Coordinating benefits: Should you take Social Security first and higher-balance IRA distributions later, or take IRA balances first and enhanced Social Security benefits later? Pensions: Distribution strategies; how to use the minimum distribution rules in concert with Social Security benefits, IRAs: Is it time to convert to a Roth? Medicare, Part D prescription drugs: what retirees need to know.
Prix Fixe: Working with AI: How to Get Along with an Artificial Coworker WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Engaging AI effectively and responsibly.
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE POP UP: How to Spring into CAS: A Step-by-Step Framework WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
AI-driven insights for CAS.
Advanced Integrated Planning: Mastering Estate, Financial,and Asset Protection Strategies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Contemporary estate and gift tax landscape. Domicile considerations in estate and financial planning. Life insurance trust dynamics and tax implications. Transfers to split-interest trusts and associated tax considerations. Qualified personal residence trusts: benefits and challenges. Grantor retained trust arrangements and planning techniques. Charitable trust strategies and their complexities. Family limited partnerships: structure and benefits. Intentionally defective grantor trusts and their potential.
Prix Fixe: How to Prepare for an Audit WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The ever-evolving landscape of audit preparedness.