CPE & Event Catalog
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yellow Book: Staying Compliant With Government Auditing Standards WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Foundation and principles of generally accepted government auditing standards (GAGAS). Yellow Book compliance requirements. Ethics, 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.
CORE Series: Washington Estate Tax Update: What CPAs Need to Know Now WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Washington estate tax requirements. Recent legislative developments. Filing thresholds. Planning implications.
CORE Series: Federal and State Tax Developments Impacting High Net Worth Clients WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Recent federal and state tax developments.
CORE Series: Key Developments in Washington Taxes WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Washington State taxes.
MAP Conference WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
12.5 Credits
Management of an accounting practice.
WSCPA Town Hall - August WEBCAST
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Issues shaping the accounting profession and the communities CPAs serve.
CORE Series: Trust Taxation Fundamentals: Understanding Grantor, Irrevocable, and Living Trusts WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Income tax treatment of common trust structures, including grantor trusts, irrevocable trusts, and revocable trusts.
How AI is Automating Internal Control WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
An explanation of AI. Specific ways AI is replacing human cognition. What is on the internal control horizon related to AI and other technologies.
CORE Series: Compliant or Liable: What Washington CPAs Must Know About the FTC Safeguards Rule WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
The FTC Safeguards Rule.
2026 Washington Ethics and New Developments with Mark Hugh WEBCAST
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Your Desk
4.0 Credits
The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. Washington ethics rules and recent changes. New developments and best practices for CPAs in public accounting and industry. Case studies and Washington administration and enforcement.
CORE Series: Exploring Recent IRS Attacks on Many Types on Charitable Donations WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Recent IRS attacks on charitable donations of conservation easements, artwork, charitable limited liability companies, closely held businesses, religious artefacts, bargain sales, cash, and more.
Idaho Technology Conference WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
12.0 Credits
Technology update. Microsoft power tools. AI. Excel.
Accounting and Auditing Update for Not-for-Profits WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Not-for-profit accounting update. FASB accounting standards updates. Statement on Quality Management Standards No. 1, 2, and 3. Auditing Standards Board update. Governmental auditing update.
Applying the Uniform Guidance in Your Single Audits WEBCAST - Partnered with the Idaho Society
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Your Desk
8.0 Credits
Introduction to single audits. Preparation of the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and determining major programs. Understanding, assessing and testing internal control. Testing compliance with federal statutes and regulations and applicable compliance requirements. Auditor reporting in a Uniform Guidance compliance audit. Program-specific audits. Administrative requirements and cost principles in a single audit.
CORE Series: Cyber Security: Sifting Through the Haystack WEBINAR
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Your Desk
1.0 Credits
Security operations centers. Endpoint detection and response. Managed detection and response.