CPE & Event Catalog
ABC Trust Planning and the Portable Exclusion WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The interplay of the estate, gift, generation-skipping, and income taxes. Claiming and protecting the portable exclusion. Marital deduction planning: rules for and reasons to use Survivor's, QTIP, and Qualified Domestic Trusts. Bypass trusts. Survivor's and QTIP trusts planning. Qualified Domestic Trust planning. What planners should tell their wealthy clients after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Accounting Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
The elements of fraud and the Fraud Triangle Theory. Types of fraud with a focus on management fraud. Best practices in fraud detection and deterrence.
CFO Series: Indispensable Skills WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Keys to success. Unintended consequences to avoid. Low cost is not necessarily a sound option. What are the non-quantifiable factors that can change the financing decision? Details on the time-intensive processes. Common blunders when raising financing. The perils of choosing the wrong alternative or wrong investor. Navigating compliance, risk, and benefits. Creating and sustaining a customer value pyramid. Evaluating the lifespan and relevance of your strategic plan. Building your strategy to include risk management. Building an adaptive, finance-focused strategic approach. What we should learn from the rise and fall of major companies. How to align financial metrics with strategy.
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
Tax Planning for Seniors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Income for seniors: retirement, earnings and investments. Tax Deductions: planning, bunching, strategies. Planning to help family members.
Social Security and Medicare: Planning for You and Your Clients WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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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.
The Art of the Interview WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Identify inconsistencies and uncover financial misconduct. Use psychological and behavioral cues to detect deception. Build rapport to elicit key details from interview subjects. Adapt questioning techniques to different personalities and contexts.
K2's AI — Better Prompts, Better Results WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Components of effective AI prompts. The pros and cons of a single large prompt versus multiple small prompts. Using prompts to format AI-generated output.
Required Minimum Distributions: Compliance and Planning WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Minimum distribution requirement changes by the SECURE Act 2.0. Latest guidance issued by the IRS related to required minimum distributions. The calculation of required minimum distributions using the Uniform Life Table. Required minimum distributions from multiple accounts. New 401(k) rules of SECURE Act 2.0. Inherited employer retirement accounts and IRAs: Changes to spousal and non-spousal beneficiary distribution options and stretch IRAs under the SECURE Act. Required minimum distributions in the year of death. Roth conversions for estate planning and avoiding required minimum distributions. Timing of distributions for maximum tax-free compounding. Section 529 rollovers to Roth accounts under SECURE Act 2.0. Qualified charitable distributions from IRAs and the relationship between deductible IRAs and QCDs under the new anti-abuse rules. Includes SECURE Act 2.0 rollovers to CRUTs and CRATs. Taxation of distributions. Penalties for missed required minimum distributions and reasonable cause for abatement of penalties. Includes SECURE Act 2.0 changes.
The Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax and Dynasty Trusts WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Calculation of the GST tax, and how it relates to the estate tax and gift tax. Direct skips, taxable distributions, and taxable terminations. GST tax allocations, Reverse QTIP election, and Exempt and Nonexempt Trusts. Calculating the benefit of and designing Dynasty Trusts.
AI — It’s Here and It’s Time to Get On Board WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
An overview of AI. What it is and how it works. How AI fits into the technology landscape. A look at how Artificial Intelligence is used now and what the future holds.
Leases: ASC Topic 842 in Depth WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
FASB ASC 842, Leases. All recently released updates to ASC 842, Leases.
Passive Activities and Rental Real Estate Income Tax Issues WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of the passive activity rules under IRC Section 469, how the 3.8% net investment income tax under Section 1411 and qualified business income deduction under Section 199A applies to rentals and passive activities, and what is a trade or business rental is under Section 162. How the PAL rules apply to rental real estate activities and investments in S corporations and partnerships. Definition of activity and the activity grouping and disclosure rules. Real estate professional exception to the PAL rules for investments in non-passive rentals. Special $25,000 loss allowance for rental real estate with active participation. Material participation safe harbor rules. Events that trigger suspended PALs. Limitations on tax credits generated by passive activities. Special rules that re-characterize passive income to non-passive income. What rentals are subject to self-employment tax under Section 1402.
Current Federal Tax Develoments WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Analyze and apply the most recent 2026 legislative and administrative changes to client scenarios. Interpret new Treasury regulations and IRS notices issued during the first half of the year.Evaluate the impact of 2026 judicial decisions on established tax positions. Identify immediate practice management risks and opportunities created by shifting IRS procedural mandates.
CFO Series: Essential Cost Containment WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Understanding what the goal really is. Better planning, ready aim and then fire. What are the crucial considerations. Why do others in the organization hate to cut costs? What are the ‘ripple’ effects? What are the right costs to cut and not to cut? What are the more common mistakes made? The need to consider politics, culture, and strategy. Fourteen different perspectives to utilize to cut costs efficiently. Over fifty uncommon cost cutting possibilities. How to prepare for the next cost cutting exercise. A proven process to cut the right cost in an organization.
Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of any new legislation affecting basis computations and distributions and changes to the schedule K-1s. Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect an S shareholder's stock and debt basis and a partner's outside basis and where the items get reported on Federal individual income tax return. The three loss and deduction limitations on the owner's individual income tax return. How cash or non-cash distributions affect the basis calculations and whether or not they are taxable to the owners. Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder's stock in an S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership. What constitutes debt basis for an S corporation shareholder under the final regulations. The tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders and on open account debt. How recourse and non-recourse debt affect a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk.
SSARS Codification: Preparation, Compilation and Review WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
SSARS Codification requirements. SSARS engagements: preparation of financial statements, compilation of financial statements and proforma financial information. Review of financial statements. Coverage of the amendments to the SSARS contained in SSARS 26 and SSARS 27.
Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
GASB updates. Updated Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs). Statement on Quality Management Standards (SQMS) No. 1, A Firm’s System of Quality Management. SQMS No. 2, Engagement Quality Reviews. SQMS No. 3, Amendments to QM Sections 10, A Firm’s System of Quality Management, and 20, Engagement Quality Reviews. Yellow Book and OMB updates affecting single audits. Ethics updates for governments and not-for-profit entities.
Case Studies in Accounting Fraud WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Major financial statement frauds, including revenue recognition, estimates, earnings management and cut-off fraud. Major misappropriation of asset fraud schemes, including skimming, larceny, and additional schemes that occur within payments processing. Review of recent cases involving the same common fraud schemes that have always existed.
Creative Strategies for Buying, Selling, and Gifting a Business WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Valuation methods. Stock purchase vs. asset purchase structures. Estate and gift tax planning strategies. Gifting of business interests. Transfer of interests to split-interest and grantor retained trusts. S corporation stock transfers to trusts. Family limited partnerships and self-canceling installment notes. Using ESOPs to transfer business ownership.