CPE Catalog
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AICPA On-Demand & Self-Study courses take up to 24 hours to process.
Key Financial and Economic Issues Facing the Financial Executive
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Online
1.00 Credits
The webcast explores the challenges of the current economic trends and analyzes their impact on you as the financial executive in areas of human resource management; credit markets and banking; risk management and pandemic style disruptions; cash flow planning strategies; debt and equity mix impacts in uncertain markets; globalization of the market in times of uncertainty; retirement planning and social security funding; and acquiring distressed companies and assets. Specific recommendations and insights will be offered to you to deal with the challenges.
Anti-Money Laundering Warning Signs and Mitigation Techniques
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Online
2.00 Credits
Could you imagine a drug dealer using a credit-card terminal to accept payment? How about someone paying for a television they bought off the back of a truck with a personal check? Hard to imagine, right? Most criminals conduct their business in cash. For years, criminals kept their ill-gotten gains in cash and used it to pay for everything from real estate to jewelry to things such as private school tuition. This prompted governments around the globe to pass laws prohibiting large cash payments or, at the least, requiring such payments to be reported. These laws created the need for criminals to conceal the true source of the money or to "launder" it. To combat these threats, laws, and regulations have been enacted in countries around the globe that make financial services firms, and in some cases individuals, responsible for preventing or stopping money laundering. Within this course, we explore AML warning signs and potential mitigation techniques companies and professionals can take to help eliminate money laundering.
2024 Taxation of Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs)
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Online
2.00 Credits
Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs), unique, identifiable digital assets based on blockchain technologies, have become a fast-growing industry. This course will provide a background on how NFTs came into the mainstream marketplace. These materials will assist the practitioner to understand the tax implications of the creation, purchase and sale of these assets. **Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com.
Surgent's Guide to Calculating S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Loan Basis
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Online
2.00 Credits
This program discusses, in a practical way, how an S corporation shareholder calculates their stock and loan basis on Form 7203. Form 7203 is the IRS Form on which a shareholder is sometimes required to calculate their stock and loan basis. This topic is particularly important when an S corporation has a loss and the shareholders wish to know whether they are entitled to fully utilize the loss that has been allocated to them against their other income.This course qualifies for IRS credit.
2024 Governmental Auditing Update: Yellow Book & Uniform Guidance
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Online
4.00 Credits
Yellow Book and Single Audit engagements are considered must select engagements for Peer Review. This course will cover the Yellow Book independence requirements which are required any time an auditor is performing a Yellow Book or Single Audit even when the engagement is for a for-profit entity. We'll take a look at the major changes in the 2024 Compliance Supplement as well as the changes to the Uniform Guidance. We'll close with major deficiencies identified by the federal agencies and peer reviewers.
Taxation of Property Transactions - Tax Staff Essentials
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Online
4.00 Credits
A fundamental understanding of the taxation of business property transactions is essential to any tax practice. This course prepares tax professionals to handle the tax effects of common property transactions, including like-kind exchanges and involuntary conversions. It also covers important property-related timing issues and planning opportunities that can lead to significant tax savings.
Moving Beyond the Basics of Excel
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Online
2.00 Credits
This course explores the increasingly complex features of Excel that facilitate efficient data analysis. We will introduce numerous analytical methods and techniques by using practical examples to illustrate how to unleash the power of Excel when manipulating, analyzing, and reporting information. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Project Management: Making Ideas a Reality
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Online
2.00 Credits
A project doesn't just happen, it takes a dedicated person to help a team create something from nothing. The best project managers incorporate the art of people management and science of execution to guide an initiative from an idea to reality. Not everyone can hire a project manager, so the great news is these skills and techniques can be learned. This class will show how a project manager breaks down a concept and applies techniques needed to effectively lead a team through the visioning, scoping, testing and rolling out of an initiative. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Surgent's Government and Nonprofit Frauds and Controls to Stop Them
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Online
4.00 Credits
George Washington once wrote, "We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience." The cost of fraud, dearly paid by governments and nonprofits, is too severe not to learn and profit from. In this course, we will look back at real-world government and nonprofit frauds and derive useful controls to stop them. The course materials utilize a highly illustrative and innovative format. Over 15 focused exercises are included to provide an enhanced working knowledge of fraud and anti-fraud controls to both auditors and industry professionals.This course qualifies for yellow book credit.
Mastering The Three Pillars of Cybersecurity: Team & Compliance
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Online
1.00 Credits
Are you looking to fortify your practice against the ever-growing threats in the digital landscape? Join us for the third installment of our exclusive webinar series, "Mastering Cybersecurity," brought to you by Practice Protect. In today's digitally connected world, the need for comprehensive cybersecurity is paramount. With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, it's crucial to stay ahead of the curve in protecting your sensitive client data. This webinar series is designed to equip CPAs with the knowledge and tools needed to secure their practices and client information effectively.
Small Firm Issues
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Online
1.00 Credits
**Strategies for small firm success** Small Firms Issues sessions spotlight the most pressing issues facing practitioners today. Each session focuses on one or two key areas, exploring: Their impact on the practice What firms are doing to address them Offering practical guidance for implementation within your firm These webcasts are ideal for small firm owners seeking insights into the latest challenges and effective solutions for success. This is the companion webcast to the Small Firms Update webcast series. Learn more about the series: https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/webcast/small-firm-update View the full webcast schedule for both free and paid Small Firm webcasts here: https://us.aicpa.org/interestareas/peerreview/cpeandevents
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity & Belonging
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Online
1.00 Credits
Many organizations unconsciously fail to exhibit diversity, inclusion and belonging. This session provides an opportunity for leaders to understand diversity language and definitions, build awareness of biases and stereotypes, recognize how our own actions protect our awareness gaps, and find a level of understanding concerning where we are and where we want to be in the future.
Providing Ethical Leadership: Learning to be the Best Version of Yourself
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Online
1.20 Credits
This course will examine certain qualities a leader must exhibit to set an ethical tone from the top.
GASB 96 -SBITA, GASB 94 P3, and GASB 87 Leases (Year 2)
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Online
2.00 Credits
This is a 2 hour webcast that will focus on the similarities between all three of these GASB accounting standards that deal with contractual arrangements such as leases, Subscription-Based Information Technology Arrangements (SBITA) and P3s. Compare and contrast these standards as you prepare for implementation this year of GASB 94 and GASB 96, and review the implementation efforts of Leases in Year 2.
What Does Fraud Look Like?
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Online
2.00 Credits
The audit standards state that one of the reasons auditors fail to detect fraud is that they don’t know what it looks like. Prior to the original SAS No. 82, Consideration of Fraud In A Financial Statement Audit, nowhere in any SAS was there a description of what fraud looked like. So, as they say, if you don’t know what you are looking for, you can often look right at it and not recognize it! This presentation illustrates some of the more common indicators of fraud they most individuals would overlook unless they 1) knew what they were looking for and were 2) actually looking for it. Contrary to what the standards say about fraud being concealed, I have found that fraud is often laying on the table right in front of you; but no one has discovered it because they have no idea what the indicators of fraud are.
Introduction to Not-for-Profit Accounting
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Online
2.00 Credits
Nonprofits face unique accounting challenges. This course will introduce attendees to the financial statements and unique accounting principles applicable to not-for-profit organizations. Specifically, we will focus on the typical transactions and account balances unique to NFPs, including net assets, agency transactions, contributions, endowments, and programmatic investments.
Audit 504: Making Rain - Success with Clients and Prospects
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Online
2.00 Credits
Making Rain - Improving Success with Retaining Clients and Attracting Prospects provides tips and techniques for ensuring that your firm has the capacity to grow and expand its book of business in a healthy way. It costs more money to develop a new client than to simply retain an existing one. While a CPA firm with longevity needs to continuously develop new business to replace departing clients, a proper balance of marketing efforts should be divided between existing clients and prospects. Note: This course is recommended as a part of a 8-hour audit skills curriculum for managers, while it is also appropriate for anyone who has client relationship or prospecting responsibilities. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Ethical Leadership: Power, Influence, Integrity, and Trust
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Online
2.00 Credits
Leaders naturally wield power and influence. But, to avoid the temptation of abusing power, leaders must apply ethical behaviors for themselves and others. Words, actions and deeds which demonstrate integrity and trust yield the credibility that make others want to follow ethical leaders. Betraying trust can destroy careers, whole organizations, and lives. This is why trust is a top prerequisite for principled and ethical leadership. Positive (and negative) influence is derived from the credibility trust brings. Ethical leaders who continually work to earn and keep trust reap enormous payback in all aspects of business including superior economic, competitive, and strategic performance.
Managing Your Money in Retirement
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Online
3.00 Credits
You spent your life building retirement savings. Now you want to make sure your savings last the rest of your life and perhaps pass some on to the next generation. Come hear a veteran financial educator talk about money management and planning issues for this phase of your life.
Surgent's Tax Loss Limitations Imposed on Individuals and Pass-through Entities
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Online
3.00 Credits
Tax practitioners advising their business clients must be fully informed regarding the multiple loss limitation provisions that apply to individuals conducting businesses and pass-through entities. This program covers the loss limitation rules that tax practitioners must know in order to advise their individual and pass-through entity clients fully and adequately as to when and if a loss limitation applies. The loss limitations discussed in this program start with an introductory discussion of hobby loss rules and graduate to a more substantive discussion of the remaining loss limitations: basis limits, at-risk rules, passive loss limits, excess business loss limits, net operating losses, and the Section 163(j) interest limitation. Knowing when loss limits apply is essential for any tax practitioner. This program will put you in a position to advise clients fully and intelligently regarding each of the loss limits.This course qualifies for IRS credit.