CPE + Events Catalog
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2025 Individual Tax Update: Form 1040 Essentials
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
Looking to stay ahead in tax matters? Join our 2025 Individual Tax Update course for an essential deep dive into Form 1040 essentials. Designed for tax pros eager to sharpen their skills, this course unpacks recent tax code changes and equips you with the know-how to navigate them effortlessly. From mastering IRS Form 1040 to leveraging new tax benefits, you'll emerge ready to optimize returns for your clients while staying compliant with the latest regulations. Don't miss out on this opportunity to boost your expertise and ensure financial success for both you and your clients! **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.
2024 Forgotten Managerial Accounting Tools (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
This session explores managerial accounting techniques with an emphasis on internal decision-making tools. You will appreciate a reminder regarding concepts you may not have considered since your college days. We will revisit managerial accounting concepts by illustrating practical examples that you can immediately bring back to the office!
Fraud Risk and Audit Requirements 2024 (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Learn about common fraud schemes and detection techniques. Utilize trends to assess risk in the context of any audit. Understand fraud requirements of the auditing standards.
Surgent's Excel Shortcuts for Accountants (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
This webinar presents a variety of time-saving ideas, shortcuts, and tips that are sure to boost personal productivity. We discuss better summing, address one of the biggest pitfalls that Excel users have faced over the past 25 years, present the most important keyboard shortcuts, demonstrate a better alternative to hiding rows or columns, illustrate how to quickly navigate to other workbooks and files, and demonstrate using Excel with styles.
Tax Depreciation: Review and Update (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
A discussion of recent law changes that impact capitalization, depreciation, and disposition of assets. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Excel – Advanced Financial and Statistical Calculations (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Depending on your version, Excel has over 500 functions already built in and ready to use. How many of those do you incorporate into your spreadsheets? After this course, you will learn some powerful functions that will take your calculating power to the next level. In this webinar, we will focus on Financial, Statistical and Math functions. In the Financial functions section, you will learn how to use the financial functions to build better amortization schedules. In the Statistical and Math functions sections, you will learn how to use various statistical functions to analyze your data. This session is presented using Excel 2013. Regardless of the version you are using, ALL concepts covered in this course apply to ALL versions of Excel. 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 Basics of Employment Law for Non-HR Professionals (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Learn the basics of employment law and how they affect best practices to help control the interview and discover hidden talents of applicants.
K2's 2024 Consumer Electronics Show 2024 – Navigating The Future Of Technology (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Small businesses have better options now than ever before in the market of accounting solutions. Participate in this session to learn more about these options and which might be best for you or your clients.
Audit 108: Auditing PP&E and Leases – Common Risks (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Auditing PP&E, Including Leases under Topic 842 - Digesting the Risks of Improper Treatment of Tangible Long-Lived Assets will address tips and techniques for auditing tangible long-lived assets for various assessed risk levels, with a special emphasis on lease accounting under Topic 842. Property, plant and equipment can range from a low-risk to a high-risk audit area, depending on the nature of transaction and events engaged in by the reporting entity. Construction, capitalized interest and complex leasing arrangements tend to result in higher risk of material misstatement. 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 Update on the SECURE 2.0 Act (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
This course provides a comprehensive analysis of the SECURE 2.0 Act. The principal focus of the Act is to expand retirement coverage and increase retirement savings. As such, the Act has many important changes relating to IRAs and qualified plans. This legislation alters the landscape of retirement planning for taxpayers of all ages. Make sure you are up to date with the latest information available in order to effectively advise your clients on these important changes.
2024 Fiduciary Accounting for Estates and Trusts (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Financial accounting for trusts and estates is one of the least understood branches of accounting. It is not particularly concerned with recording income and expenses but is obsessed with determining whether receipts and expenditures are assigned to income or principal/corpus. This course will dive into this tricky area and provide a reporting guide for fiduciary accounting.
Adobe Acrobat Tips for Working with PDF Files (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
If you find yourself working with PDF files consistently throughout the day, this course will teach you how to review, annotate, format and organize PDF files more effectively and in less time. You will also learn how to use Adobe Acrobat for e-signatures to reduce document processing time significantly and enhance confidentiality. Adobe Acrobat has many features that you can take advantage of and this course will explain and demonstrate how to use them. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
2024 Accounting Update in a Post COVID-19 World (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered corporate and public accounting in ways we could never have imagined. This broad-based course will discuss accounting and auditing implications that have arisen as a result of the pandemic.
2024 PCAOB and SEC Update (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
It is imperative for public companies to produce quality financial reporting. This course will share insights into the latest SEC and PCAOB areas of emphasis and concern. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
2024 Guide to Preparing Form 1041 for Estates and Trusts (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
This program examines the critical issues, rules, and special opportunities when preparing your clients' Form 1041 US Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts. Learn what is considered taxable income; filing requirements and deadlines; impact of the 3.8 percent Medicare surtax on net investment income; and the 10 principles of tax accounting for trust income. **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.
2024 Partnerships and S Corporations: How to Calculate Basis (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
The IRS has recently increased the pressure on how to calculate and report partner and shareholder basis. Changes in the forms reflect these developments. This program provides a detailed analysis of the calculations related to determining tax basis for a partnership interest and S corporation shareholder shares and loans. How to use the Form 1065, Schedule K-1 and Form 1120S, Schedule K-1 information for basis determination. Illustrated examples with filled in forms will demonstrate how the processes works and their many potential pitfalls. **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.
Communicating Financial Data to Non-Financial Audiences (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
Communicating financial data to those who aren't used to hearing it can be a challenge; however, there are some actions you can take to make the information easier to understand and relatable. This course provides you the necessary tools to communicate financial information to non-financial audiences. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
2024 Listening to the Statement of Cash Flows (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
This course will allow you to get reacquainted with the statement of cash flows. We will refresh your skills regarding both the preparation and utilization of the statement of cash flows. Significant emphasis will be placed on the informational role of the statement of cash flows and insights that can be obtained using the statement of cash flows in concert with the other elements of a company’s accrual-basis financial statements.
2024 Financial & Tax Accounting for S Corporations (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
This program addresses the many complex financial and tax accounting issues that are common in S corporation transactions, with discussion of common pitfalls and the new AICPA "small" GAAP accounting standards.
K2's 2024 Harnessing ChatGPT – Unlocking Professional Efficiency (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
Are you ready to maximize the utility of ChatGPT? If so, participate in this session so you can learn the best ways to leverage this tool.