CPE + Events Catalog
SALT Mastery Series Bundle
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Up to 20.0 Credits
Member Price: $550
A Deep Dive into State and Local Tax TopicsUnlock the secrets of effective state and local tax strategies with our comprehensive SALT Mastery Series! Elevate your expertise, stay ahead of legislative changes, and gain practical insights tailored for tax professionals. Join us for an in-depth exploration of advanced techniques, guided by industry-leading experts. Don’t miss this opportunity to master the complexities of SALT and transform your tax practices. Sign up today and take the first step towards becoming a SALT expert! There are 10 courses in the bundle. Each course is a stand-alone topic. If you miss one in the series, no worries! Purchase individual courses or purchase the SALT Mastery Series bundle and save up to $140!
Monthly Tax Update with Ed Zollars - One Big Beautiful Bill Act - TCJA Extensions Plus More - (2 hours - afternoon) - Webcast
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $100
Stay in the know with this monthly tax update series, featuring Ed Zollars, CPA. Each month, Ed breaks down a different federal tax topic so you can stay on top of the changes and provide optimal service to your clients. This Month: With the signing into law of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act CPAs are now faced with understanding a large new tax bill and applying what is in the bill to clients for 2025 and beyond. This course will look at the various provisions in the bill and some that were in the House bill but did not make it into the final bill signed into law. We'll look at the new rapidly upcoming deadlines to obtain certain energy tax credits due to the accelerated repeal of many energy incentives in the law, the revised SALT cap, the additional deduction for seniors, and more. Join us for an initial look at the changes that arrive with this new legislation. Note: Course title changed on 7/8/25. The previously published title was: Monthly Tax Update with Ed Zollars - One Big Beautiful Bill Act? Something Else? July 2025 Status of Legislation.OSCPA has partnered with the Idaho Society of CPAs for this event.
SALT Mastery Series: New Washington Legislation - Increased Rates, Newly Taxable Services, Estate Tax Changes & More! (2 hours - morning) - Webcast
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $69
Elevate your expertise, stay ahead of legislative changes, and gain practical insights tailored for tax professionals. Join us for an in-depth exploration of the new Washington legislation effective October 1, 2025. Don't miss the opportunity to master the complexities of SALT and transform your tax practice.
SALT Mastery Series: OR Corporate Activity Tax: Form & Substance Matter! Includes Agency Relationship Audit Update (2 hours) - NEW! - Webcast
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $69
Unlock the complexities of the Oregon Corporate Activity Tax (CAT) in this detailed session of the SALT Mastery Series. Join us for an in-depth walkthrough of CAT return completion, where you'll learn to accurately navigate apportionment and unitary group issues. Gain clarity on special rules and exclusions for certain industries, and ensure your clients are well-prepared for potential audits. Plus, explore the question of whether CAT should be included on the invoice. Led by top tax professionals, this session equips you with practical strategies to manage Oregon's unique tax structure and enhance your expertise.
OBBA 2025 Unpacked: Impact for Taxpayers and Business Owners (4 hours - morning) - NEW! - Webcast
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $195
Whether you asked for it (or not) and it's here! The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed on July 4. This program will dig into the meat of the Act that will matter to your clients, including No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, increased Section 199A Deduction, 100% Section 168(k) Bonus and much, much more!
Monthly Tax Update with Ed Zollars (2 hours - afternoon) - Webcast
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $100
Stay in the know with this monthly tax update series, featuring Ed Zollars, CPA. Each month, Ed breaks down a different federal tax topic so you can stay on top of the changes and provide optimal service to your clients.OSCPA has partnered with the Idaho Society of CPAs for this event.
K2's Excel Essentials for Staff Accountants - Webcast
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $315
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Staff accountants have specific needs when working with Excel. Unfortunately, their existing Excel knowledge often does not meet these needs. Chief among these are summarizing data quickly and accurately, generating accurate and aesthetically pleasing reports, and creating accounting-centric calculations for elements such as depreciation, amortization, and interest. By participating in this eight-hour session, staff accountants will gain the essential skills to maximize efficiency and accuracy when working with Excel. This session begins with a quick overview of Excel best practices. It then progresses rapidly into discussions that address PivotTables, sophisticated formulas, Tables, formatting, and working with dates in Excel. Throughout the session, you will learn from accounting centric examples to reinforce key learning points. In this session, you will learn in a "laptop-friendly" environment, and participants will have access to all the demonstration files. In sum, this seminar is a "must" for all staff accountants seeking to improve their efficiency and accuracy when working with Excel.
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How AI Fits into the Accounting World (2 hours - late morning) - Webcast
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $105
This session is designed as a primer to introduce artificial intelligence (AI) and to discuss how it will impact accountants as they work. The material will briefly explain what AI is and then focus on ways that it is already serving those in the accounting realm. It will close with a look at future AI-centric developments that will have great potential to positively impact the accounting profession. Those wishing to gain an understanding of what artificial intelligence is and how it will be used by accountants should consider attending this session.OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.
K2's Excel Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Accountants - Webcast
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $315
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Excel is the accountant's tool of choice for analyzing and reporting financial data, yet many use time-consuming and error-prone processes to complete everyday tasks. Regardless of your experience level, if you use Excel, you need this course to learn more efficient and effective ways to work with Excel. In this course, you will discover countless tips, tricks, and techniques to improve your general level of productivity, reduce the amount of time you spend on mundane tasks, such as formatting, and customize Excel for greater accuracy and efficiency. You will also learn valuable formula-building skills and best practices for linking Excel data from other sources and streamlining report generation and printing processes. Your K2 instructor will reinforce key learning points throughout the program with practical, real-world examples to improve your understanding and comprehension of the topics presented. This highly acclaimed course draws on over twenty-five years of experience delivering spreadsheet training to accounting and financial professionals, assuring you of the relevance and usefulness of the information and guidance provided during the program.
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K2's QuickBooks for Accountants - Webcast
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $315
The QuickBooks platform is robust with features and capabilities that many users are unaware of or do not know how to utilize effectively. This course helps you get more out of QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online and resolve the issues even experienced QuickBooks users struggle with, such as locking down prior periods. This program starts fast with a chapter covering the top issues accountants face with QuickBooks. Then, the day continues with practical guidance and solutions designed to help accountants get the most out of QuickBooks for themselves or their clients. You will learn about issues like setting up a new company, configuring and customizing QuickBooks preferences, and enabling system security and password protection features. Also, you will learn how to lock down transactions in prior periods, use the audit trail, customize reports, export reports to Excel, and extend QuickBooks' usefulness with tools such as the Fixed Asset Manager and Loan Manager.
Navigating IRS Collections: Overview of Form 433 & OIC (2 hours)
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This course highlights when to use Form 433-A or 433-B, along with documents needed to effectively submit an Offer in Compromise (OIC) or Installments Agreement. Settling tax debts is an important part of the IRS collection process, this course helps guide taxpayer representatives through the process so they may efficiently complete these necessary forms. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
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Surgent's Understanding Partnership Taxation: Debt Allocations (2 hours)
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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How debt is allocated to the partners in a partnership is important. It dictates how much money may be taken tax-free as a distribution, the losses that flow down to the partners, and the gain or loss on the sale of a partnership interest. However, the allocation of debt can differ depending on the type of debt it is and the type of partner we are talking about. Furthermore, 704(c) can complicate things. And what in the world is a constructive liquidation scenario? In this course, we will tackle the concept of debt allocations - how you do it, what it means, and why you do it.
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Surgent's Gaining a Competitive Advantage: Critical Skills for CFOs and Controllers (4 hours) [NT]
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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All organizations are looking for ways to gain an advantage over the competition. This practical and interactive session will present a toolkit of ideas to help CFOs, controllers and finance professionals better position their organizations for the future. We know change is occurring at an exponential rate, and that has proven to be the case in all areas of finance, management, and leadership over the past year. The course deals with these new issues and will continue to be updated as necessary throughout the year. Become the "financial hero" of your organization and make a positive impact on the bottom-line.
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Surgent's Key Partnership and S Corporation Tax Planning Strategies (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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Most of our clients are pass-through entities for which many of the general business strategies are subject to additional limitations. To provide the tax planning strategies for closely held business clients that will bring more revenue, this course focuses on the special concerns and techniques the practitioner needs to thrive in this market.
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Surgent's Overview and Analysis of the New Tax Law: Part 2 – Focus on Business Taxation (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $199
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The passage of OBBBA represents the most consequential tax law since The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) in 2017. It is now up to accounting and finance practitioners to digest this new legislation so they can adequately advise their clients regarding its effect. This course includes detailed coverage of all the business tax provisions contained in OBBBA. Our experts have broken down this voluminous legislation and distilled its presentation into two parts, each offering four CPE credits. These courses are independent of each other and do not need to be taken in order. For coverage of all individual tax provisions, please see Overview and Analysis of the New Tax Law: Part 1 - Focus on Individual Taxation (NEW1). Surgent is providing first-to-market coverage of the legislation in a comprehensive but easily digestible manner. We will, of course, bring our customers future clarifications and corrections emanating from the legislation. Clients will be immediately asking about these enactments, and a real-time understanding of them will be critical to properly provide advice.
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Surgent's Understanding and Testing Control and Compliance in a Single Audit (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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The control and compliance requirements for single audits differ from the requirements for GAAS audits. As a result, sometimes it's difficult to tell where the auditor's responsibilities start and stop in a single audit. This course is designed to help you proceed and succeed in applying the single audit control and compliance requirements contained in the 2024 revision to the Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards. Over 15 focused exercises are included to provide an enhanced working knowledge of the most critical challenges in single auditing today.
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Conducting a Remote Audit (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
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Understand the basics of remote auditing and how it can be used in your engagements Remote auditing has become increasingly popular in recent years. Learn how to apply auditing standards to real-life examples of remote auditing in this all-new webcast. Join us to explore ways to overcome the challenges of remote auditing and conduct efficient engagements for your clients.
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Managerial Accounting: Your Prescription for Better Decision (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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This session revisits useful, but potentially underutilized, managerial accounting techniques. You will appreciate a fresh look at concepts you may not have considered since your college days. We will illustrate practical ways you can immediately implement managerial accounting analysis in your professional endeavors. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
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2025 Annual Update for Governmental Accountants & Auditors
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $239
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This course begins with a look at the GASB standards effective this year, including GASB 100, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections and GASB 101, Compensated Absences. We'll include practical application of the topics in the form of case studies. We'll then switch gears to review the GASB standards coming down the pike, including major projects of the GASB. When considering the audit side of the house, 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 performs a Yellow Book or Single Audit even when the engagement is for a for-profit entity. The session will also cover the changes to the Uniform Guidance. We'll close with a look at the key changes in the 2024 Compliance Supplement and the common deficiencies identified by the federal agencies and peer reviewers. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
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Advanced Tax Planning S Corporations – Tax Staff Essentials
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8.0 Credits
Member Price: $349
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Look beneath the surface of S corporation taxation in this discussion of special topics concerning S corporations.
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