CPE + Events Catalog
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K2's 2023 Excel Charting And Visualizations (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Charts and graphs are nothing new. However, many professionals struggle with building compelling visualizations. If that statement describes you, participate in this session to improve your skills in creating Excel charts and other visualizations. As a result, you will create visualizations to enhance your communication skills. This session is much more than just a seminar on fundamental charts. Instead, in this session, you will learn how to create advanced charts that are interactive, dynamic, and aesthetically pleasing – three qualities that will help to ensure that your readers and audience will understand the data you are presenting. This seminar is a must if you want to improve your communication skills.
K2's 2024 Tech Update (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Technology continues to revolutionize our professional and personal lives. Stay up to date on key technologies that may affect you in the very near future so that you may position you and your organization for success.
2024 How to Audit Expenses & Payables (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
This course will serve as an introduction to conducting effective walkthroughs to gain an understanding of the client's transaction processes as well as identify internal controls within each process. This course will review the procedures, questions to ask, and documentation requirements of walkthroughs. It will also include real-world examples of the red flags that may arise while executing a walkthrough.
2024 Single Audit Update (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
This course will start with a review of the impact of the 2024 Compliance Supplement on Single Audits as well as the changes to the Uniform Guidance. We will also review common audit deficiencies found in Single Audits.
K2's 2024 Time To Advance Automation – Strategies And Tools For Efficiency (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Increasingly, automating business processes is a necessity. In this session, you will learn about real-world examples of automating business processes. Remember, the survival of your business might depend upon successful automation!
K2's 2024 What's Now, What's Next – Emerging Technologies (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Participate in this session to learn about key emerging technologies, including quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and selfsupervised learning.
K2's 2023 Case Studies in Fraud and Technology Controls- 4 Hrs (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Fraud continues to plague businesses at epidemic levels, and technology control failures are a big reason fraud occurs. Using a case study approach, in this session, you will learn about the pervasiveness of fraud, the control failures that contribute to fraud, and what you can do to mitigate fraud risk. A specific focus of this course is the application of information technology general controls and information technology application controls. In this course, you will examine numerous reported fraud cases and identify the general control and application control failures that contributed to each of these frauds. By learning through these real-world case studies, you will be better positioned to reduce fraud risk.
2024 Common Deficiencies in SSARS Engagements (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Preparation, compilation and review engagements continue to be a hot topic for peer review despite SSARS 21 having been around for nearly a decade. This course will concentrate on the most common peer review findings with a focus on how to comply in an efficient but practical perspective. This course will discuss the root cause of noncompliance so that overall engagement quality increases.
Advanced Budgeting – Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Projections (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
Unless you expect your organization to be stable in the short, medium and long term, you need to understand how to create long-term balance sheet and cash flow projections. Growing organizations must know whether they will have the resources to execute their business plan. Struggling organizations need to know if they will have the cash to survive. This session will increase your organization's ability to see its future and increase the confidence that your CEO, Board and bank have in you. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
2024 Nonprofit Taxation Rules and Form 990 (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
This course explores the latest tax provisions impacting non-profit entities, including charities, hospitals, and universities, with a focus on common issues CPAs may face when completing their clients Form 990. **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.
Common Financial Statement Disclosures (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Financial statement disclosures are important to provide the information necessary for financial statement users to make economic decisions. Disclosures further explain and clarify information provided in the basic financial statements, but also provide critical information about subsequent events, litigation risk, and other concerns. This course focuses on the most common financial statement disclosures for small- or medium-sized nonpublic entities. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Reviewing Individual Tax Returns (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $118
The volume of individual tax returns requiring preparation can create an environment that leads to errors or omissions. Identify common errors practitioners make on individual tax returns for single filers.
Surgent's Taxation of Partnership Distributions and Sales of Partnership Interests (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
This program focuses on two parts of Subchapter K, partnership distributions and sales of partnership interests - topics that tax practitioners are often asked about by clients. Tax practitioners are called upon to advise both the partnership which makes distributions and the partners receiving the distributions regarding the tax consequences of these transactions. Additionally, tax practitioners will be deeply involved in decisions regarding the sale and purchase of a partnership interest. These topics are thoroughly covered in this program. The presenters also discuss several types of partnership distributions and the tax rules relating to them, as well as analyze the tax rules relating to the sale of a partnership interest. Tax practitioners will be given an in-depth analysis of these complex topics, so that they can effectively answer their clients' questions.
Surgent's The Most Critical Challenges in Governmental Accounting Today (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
With the constant churning of governmental accounting standards, now is the time to know more than just what the standards say; we need to know what they mean and how they will affect governmental entities. This course is designed to do just that! The course materials utilize a highly illustrative and innovative format. Over 15 focused exercises are included to provide an enhanced working knowledge of the most critical challenges in governmental accounting today.
Small Business Risk Avoidance (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
Enterprise Risk Management for SMEs
Controls to Secure the Growing Digital Footprint (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
The amount of electronic content that business organizations contend with is growing at incredible rates. Terms like "Big Data" and "Information Overload", are being used by overwhelmed information workers on a daily basis. Additionally, because of the move to a much larger telecommuter footprint, electronic data is now even more prevalently utilized. This session discusses the places that businesses keep digital information and addresses the importance of securing corporate electronic data. The material effectively shows ways to achieve high security standards for content stored in fixed locations, on mobile devices and in the cloud. Participants in this session will gain an understanding of the concepts needed to improve the way they, and their companies secure digital information. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Walter Haig's GAAP for SMEs, Tax & Cash Frameworks Update
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
This course provides an update of the recent changes that have occurred in the financial reporting frameworks commonly used by small and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Troublesome areas in these financial reporting frameworks as identified in peer reviews and litigation will be highlighted. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Microsoft Teams Features Every User Should Know (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Microsoft Teams is one of the most widely used applications for communications, collaboration and knowledge sharing in business today. Most users are unaware of many time saving features available to help you manage your conversations, files and related content on a daily basis. John Higgins, a strategic advisor to the profession on Microsoft 365, will teach you how to leverage all the functionality Teams has to offer to compose, organize and retrieve your conversations, files and related content for maximum effectiveness. 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 Spreadsheet Troubleshooting Techniques (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
Do you dread that annoying ERROR! message popping up on your spreadsheets? Tired of using the same long, elaborate formulas when you could be using the ones that are already built into Excel? Then this class is for you! In this webinar, we will focus on Debugging and Troubleshooting complex formulas. You will learn various techniques that will assist you in creating complex compound formulas. You will also learn techniques to resolve issues when you receive errors. This session will also discuss the 9 built-in error checking options and demonstrate resolution techniques. We will also review techniques to resolve rounding errors. 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 Managing Up the Ladder (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
It's not about top-down management anymore - things have changed. For organizations to be successful today, everyone needs to contribute. Our success depends not just on how you manage those who report to you but also on those to whom you report. The world is too complex now for any one person to have all the answers. Sometimes those in charge need and want your support. Learn how to manage the managers in "Managing Up the Ladder." It takes a special finesse and approach. You'll learn strategies for acquiring buy-in from those above you in the organization and tools for more effective communications and building respect.