CPE & Event Catalog
CyberPsychology: Conquering Insider Threat WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Exploiting control gaps and control weaknesses. Psychological tactics used in attacks. A review of robust controls. Data access observables, changes in network patterns. A review of the audit, HR, IT and management relationships. Proactive approaches to recognize evolving risks and avoid breaches,
K2's Small Business Internal Controls, Security, and Fraud Prevention And Detection WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Common challenges associated with implementing appropriate internal controls in small business environments. Fraud in small business environments. Internal control options in small business accounting software. Understanding the need for application controls and general controls.
Dealing With IRS Appeals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Opportunities for appealing IRS actions. Preparing the case for an appeal. Best strategies for handling appeals. Alternate dispute resolution options before and after the appeal. Appeals of collection and penalty determinations. Understanding state appeals for income, sales and employment taxes
Estate Planning: A Comprehensive Overview WEBCAST
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
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.
Communication Skills for Introverts WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
The five areas to improve your communication. Understanding your audience. Virtual communication. Non-verbal Communication.
Asset Misappropriation - Let Me Count the Ways WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Identifying opportunity. The three most common behavioral red flags that we should always look for. The many ways to commit check fraud (it's so easy). Why inventory is such a good place to hide theft of assets. How to cover up inventory fraud. Accounts receivable fraud and how it works. How to count inventory that's not there.
Tax Elections: Beware of the Minefield WEBCAST
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Tax elections for various entities. Tax elections relevant for accounting matters. Tax elections involving special items.
6 Practical Strategies To Promote Diversity and Inclusion In Your Workplace WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Communication. Leadership. Character. Behavior.
FASB Update: What's New? WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.5 Credits
FASB's current activities. ASUs issued. Workplan agenda.
Fraud Busters: Controls to Prevent and Detect Fraud WEBINAR
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
Fraud motivators - the fraud triangle, typical profiles of fraud perpetrators. Revisiting the basics of controls - design vs effectiveness, preventative vs. detective. Entity-wide controls and how they can assist in fraud deterrence. Specific fraud types and the controls that could prevent and detect them.
AI and You WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Leadership. Future of work. Workforce planning. Change management. Technology in HR. Job redesign.
Prix Fixe: Economic Update: Believe What You are Experiencing, Not What You are Hearing WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
U.S. and regional economies.
Balancing Employee and Employer Rights WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.4 Credits
Customary management functions. Delegation of authority. Implementing changes in terms of employment. Fundamental duties owed to employer.
Promote Internal Whistleblowing and Succeed in Creating a Strong Speak Up Culture WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Speak up culture. Encouraging internal whistleblowing. Internal complaint reporting processes.
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.
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.
Achieve Competency in Three Basic Tool Categories - Master the Fundamentals WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Tools for FSA. The 3 Ps. The QST trifecta. The integrated planning model. Performance based management. The value chain. The balanced scorecard.
Member Exclusive: Strategies for Effective Meetings WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
How to create more inclusive and productive meetings. Effective communication styles. The importance of cultural sensitivity. How to ensure equitable participation and encourage constructive dissent.
Protecting Digital Data - More Important Now Than Ever Before WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Securing individual documents. Protecting information resident in the Cloud. Securing data stored on or accessed by mobile devices
Prix Fixe: An Overview of SECURE Act 2.0 WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Secure Act 2.0. Changes for retirement plan beneficiaries. Planning ideas for clients.
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