CPE & Event Catalog
The Most Critical Challenges in Not-for-Profit Accounting Today WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The essential disclosure requirements specific to not-for-profit organizations and strategies for enhancing clarity and value. Practical insights into the accounting for conditional and restricted contributions, membership dues, contributed services, and noncash contributions. The advantages, challenges, and best practices for effectively presenting a measure of operations.
Revenue Recognition for Private Entities WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Analysis of requirements for revenue recognition under ASC 606. Discussion of the requirements for auditing revenue transactions. Analysis of internal control and fraud risk aspects. Identification of high-risk areas of revenue recognition. Suggested procedures for identified risks.
WSCPA Annual Meeting 2026 WEBCAST
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Your Desk
3.7 Credits
Practical tools for leadership, decision-making, and resilience. Insight into the economic, legislative, and risk forces shaping your profession
This Year's Best Income Tax, Estate Tax, and Financial-Planning Ideas WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation. Comprehensive coverage of key provisions enacted under The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The SECURE 2.0 Act and Inflation Reduction Act provisions applicable to individuals. Changes to the lifetime estate tax exemption in light of proposed regulations. Considerations when selling a principal residence. Tax benefits of HSAs. An overview of the mechanics and practical considerations of Donor Advised Funds. Virtual currency and digital assets - understand the new Form 1099-DA for reporting digital assets. The best new income tax and estate-planning ideas. The changing Social Security landscape: long-term solvency issues and what it means for retirement planning. Creative charitable giving strategies. Financial planning strategies. Maximizing retirement plan benefits. Using intentionally defective grantor trusts. Miscellaneous tax-planning techniques that can add up to significant tax savings. How to use the whole family for tax savings. Life insurance. Up-to-the-minute ideas reflecting new tax law changes in cases, regulations, and rulings.
K2's Data Analytics For Accountants And Auditors WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Understanding the importance of data analytics in modern business environments. Generating and interpreting data analytics using everyday applications such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft's Power BI platform. Using regression analysis to create and validate forecasts and projections.
Oregon and Washington Ethics 2026 WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Conduct. Key Washington and Oregon differences. New national and state developments. Case studies.
Basis Calculations & Distributions for Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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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 (including the Form 7203 - S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations). Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect a S shareholder's stock and debt basis and a partner/member'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 (i.e., basis, at-risk and other Form 1040 limitations). 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 a S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership. What constitutes debt basis for a 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 effect a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk.
How AI is Automating Internal Control WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An explanation of Artificial Intelligence. Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
CFO Series: Driving Efficiency WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Types of audits: external, internal, compliance, regulatory. Objectives of each audit type and how they differ. Aligning management’s role with auditor expectations. What to expect in the planning phase. Fieldwork survival tips and communication best practices. Documentation dos and don’ts. Responding to findings and building effective action plans. Avoiding common audit pitfalls. What internal controls are—and what they are not. Why even small organizations need controls. COSO and the five core components of a sound internal control system. Common control failures and real-world consequences. Examples of scalable financial, operational, and compliance controls. How to tailor controls to your organization’s size and risk profile. Embedding internal controls into daily operations. How to monitor, evaluate, and adapt controls over time. The importance and structure of the cash flow statement, and more.
Tax School Level 1 WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
32.0 Credits
Individual tax fundamentals. Tax fundamentals of LLCs and partnerships. S corporations: Key issues, compliance, and tax strategies. Capitalized costs and depreciation. Taxation of property transactions.
Employer's Handbook: Health Care, Retirement, and Fringe Benefit Tax Issues WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
ERISA compliance: employee welfare plans and qualified plans. Fringe benefit issues: COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care. Health care plans: HRAs, HSAs, and other employer-sponsored plans. Qualified plan requirements: eligibility, coverage, and vesting.
Tax Aspects of Stock Investing WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Active and passive investing. Dividend-paying stocks, value stocks, and the net investment income tax. Favorable capital gain strategies and the netting process. Exchange-traded funds, stock options, and straddles.
Taxation of the Construction Contractor WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Walkthrough of accounting methods and relevant elections under IRC 460. Illustrative examples and analysis. Review of pertinent cases and revenue rulings. Update of other IRS activity, including recent Tax Reform.
Accounting for Income Taxes for Private Companies WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Sample Schedule M calculations. Sample work papers for deferred tax computations. Comprehensive two-year example and computations. Review and analysis of recurring temporary differences. Identification of the sources to compute cumulative temporary differences. Sample workpapers for analysis of tax positions.
Common Yellow Book & Single Audit Deficiencies WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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TBD
4.0 Credits
Common deficiencies noted by peer reviewers and federal agencies. Deficiencies related to internal controls over compliance, compliance testing, and major program determination for Single Audits.
Accounting and Auditing Update WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
Review of new accounting standards issued in 2025 and 2026. Applicable changes to accounting for government grants and crypto currency. Compilation and review standards and interpretations. Auditing standards including a deep dive into the quality management standards.
Defensive Tax Practice and IRS Publication 230 WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
2.0 Credits
AICPA Professional Standards in a CPA’s tax practice. IRS Publication 230 and related rules. Personal liability of professionals. Engagement letter protection ideas. Citing of legal cases.
Accounting for Crypto Assets WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Scope and criteria for crypto assets under ASC 350-60. Initial recognition and subsequent fair value measurement under ASC 820. Presentation on the balance sheet and income statement; required annual and interim disclosures.
S Corporation Taxation: Cutting Edge Tax Strategies WEBCAST - Partnered with the Oregon Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Converting S corps to C corps - Should you convert? Reasonable compensation for shareholder-employees. Restructuring shareholder loans to increase basis. Strategies for restoring terminated S corp status (retroactively). The types of debt that provide basis to shareholders. Fixing technical violations of S corporation's eligibility rules. Maximizing the QBID for S corporations. Tax consequences of property distributions from an S corp (including circumstances where ordinary income is triggered). Whether shareholders should provide funds through loans or contributions. When clients can get ordinary losses on sales or worthless of S corp stock. Exit strategies for S corporation owners. "Land banks" - using S corporations to maximize capital gains on the sale of land that will later be developed.
K2's Eight Awesome PivotTable Features WEBCAST
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Your Desk
0.0 Credits
Adding user-defined calculations to PivotTables. Enhancing PivotTables with Key Performance Indicators. Using PivotTables to consolidate standard Excel reports. Creative ways to filter PivotTables. Linking accounting software data into PivotTables.