CPE + Events Catalog

Forensic accounting has been a rapidly growing part of the accounting profession for some time. The rapid expansion of technology, growth in various sectors of business and industry, and the rise and increase in complexity of white-collar crimes contribute to this growth. A diverse range of clients as well as cases involving all types of fraud make this an attractive profession, and one that is always in high demand. This course is designed to elevate your expertise and skills, regardless of whether you come from an audit background, work in the public sector, or are aspiring to become a forensic accountant. This comprehensive course will equip you with the fundamental knowledge to identify, investigate, and effectively communicate your findings. As an added resource, you will receive a copy of the AICPA's Forensic & Litigation Service's Forensic Accounting - Fraud Investigations practice aid, which serves as valuable guidance for future reference.OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.

CFOs, controllers, and finance managers often play a key role in driving value within an organization. You'll explore best practices tailored to help enhance your impact within your organization. Additionally, you'll gain insight into economic trends that can affect your business and technological tools that can increase efficacy and efficiency. Topics covered include strategic planning, talent management, cash management, and sustainability. The knowledge and skills you learn will help you add value to your business and contribute to the success of your organization.OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.

The most effective path to success lies in making yourself indispensable to your clients. Achieving that indispensability requires a robust understanding of your client's business. You'll explore the latest developments affecting not-for-profits including FASB requirements, 0MB, and Yellow Book developments. Moreover, you'll thoroughly review updates to ethics, governmental auditing standards, and accounting for not-forprofits. By participating in this course, you'll ensure you are well-versed in current standards and best practices in not-for-profit accounting and auditing.YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.OSCPA has partnered with the Idaho Society of CPAs for this event.

The QuickBooks ecosystem of accounting tools remains the most widely-used set of accounting applications small businesses use. Yet, many of these organizations struggle because of inadequate internal controls. In this seminar, you will learn options for improving internal controls in small businesses running QuickBooks Pro, Premier, Enterprise, or Online. Participate in this program to understand how you can create a robust system of internal controls in a small business environment, including businesses using QuickBooks accounting solutions. In this session, you will also learn about the four common types of internal controls and how to assess the relative condition of the internal control structure of a small business. With this background in place, the focus then shifts to discovering the opportunities to enhance internal controls in QuickBooks-based environments using features found in the application. In addition, you will learn about additional internal control procedures for situations where you cannot establish adequate controls in QuickBooks. While many believe that QuickBooks-based organizations will forever face weak internal control structures, participating in this session will teach you how QuickBooks-based businesses can benefit from strong internal controls.

Many Microsoft 365/Office 365 subscriptions include robust Cloud services for improving productivity. Foundational services, such as SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange Online, join with other powerful tools such as Teams, Planner, Power Automate, Forms, and Power Apps to provide a productivity platform second to none. Unfortunately, most users will never benefit from working with these tools simply because they remain unaware of these features. Plan to attend this session to learn about the "rest of 365" and how these Cloud-based applications can enhance personal and team productivity while simultaneously facilitating remote working arrangements. Don't miss this opportunity to get all the knowledge and guidance necessary to leverage your investment in Microsoft 365/Office 365 fully.

This annual conference brings together industry leaders to learn, network and share ideas on how to grow and strengthen your skills to better serve your business and customers.

Tax planning for 2025 is largely based upon legislation contained within the Inflation Reduction Act and the SECURE Act 2.0, that offer new planning options and challenges for businesses in 2025. There are, however, other business tax changes in 2025 that result from different pieces of tax legislation, IRS pronouncements, and court cases that need to be taken into account from a planning perspective. This program analyzes the new opportunities and challenges that these tax changes offer to businesses and their owners that impact 2025 and sometimes later years.OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.

Develop your soft skills in training courses that benefit both the person attending and their organization. This course, part four of the five-course series, is applicable for various accounting departments (i.e. audit, tax, consulting, and accounting services) but because these are universal leadership concepts, they are equally applicable to other professional business leaders. AHI soft skills training will help improve efficiency, make managers and senior managers more effective with others, and increase the organization's bottom line. Also, as these courses often include other industries besides accounting, there is an opportunity to work and network with leadership professionals from other industries. Per NASBA's rules effective January 1, 2024, participants are required to be on camera and participate in the full and small group discussions to earn CPE credits for this Group Live - Virtual course. As such, please make sure you are set up properly with reliable internet (hard wired is best), a working camera, and a working microphone.

Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming the accounting, tax and finance landscape. This course offers CPAs a comprehensive overview of AI technologies, with a special emphasis on generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Learn how these advancements are reshaping business operations and what they mean for your professional role. This course is one of a four-part series on AI technology for CPAs. We recommend you attend all four presentations to develop a complete understanding of AI and its potential in accounting, tax and finance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation tools offer incredible opportunities for all business professionals to improve productivity and accuracy. For example, generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Bard can be beneficial when conducting research or drafting reports and correspondence. Likewise, Microsoft's Power Automate platform and similar tools such as Zapier can help you elevate efficiency to levels you may have thought unattainable. If this sounds appealing, plan to participate in this session to modernize your workflows and take advantage of these tools. This session will teach you practical applications of today's AI and automation tools. Moving beyond fundamental discussions, you will learn how to use AI and automation to streamline workflows, improve internal control, maximize productivity, and even improve team member morale. In addition, you will learn about some potential pitfalls associated with these technologies and how to avoid making mistakes when using these tools. In sum, this session is "must-see CPE," and you should plan to participate in this class today.

Small businesses have many retirement plan options. The selection of the best plan helps our clients minimize taxes and secure a more comfortable retirement. We'll cover how to navigate through the options and pick the best retirement plan for each client. We'll have a discussion of relevant SECURE Act 2.0 developments including Roth SIMPLE and SEP IRA provisions which are effective now.OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.

Which technology trends will impact you and your business? What emerging technologies will potentially help you to address security and efficiency? How will the emergence of Windows 11 affect you? Should you consider subscription-based software? What does the future of communication technology have in store for you? Get answers to these and other questions by participating in K2's Technology Update, a four-hour review of technology trends and developments affecting virtually all business professionals.

Microsoft Teams is one of the most exciting personal and organizational productivity tools ever appearing on the business landscape. With Teams, you can communicate and collaborate easily and securely with others, including colleagues outside your organization. Further, you can extend the already-robust functionality in Teams by incorporating add-in solutions with just a few mouse clicks. Unfortunately, despite Teams' power and relatively simple interface, many organizations struggle to deploy and use Teams. In this session, you will learn how to get up and running quickly in Teams to take full advantage of this powerful tool. More specifically, you will learn how to get started in Teams and critical decisions affecting your deployment. Also, you will learn how to work in Teams, take advantage of the chat, voice, and video call services, and share documents securely with others. Moreover, you will learn how to extend your Teams platform to external organizations for improved communication and collaboration. Additionally, you will identify how to add other applications to Teams and optimize Team's configuration for the best overall efficiency and security. If you are working with Teams or plan to do so, this is one CPE session you can't afford to miss!

Security is not optional, and yesterday's security techniques do not minimize today's threats. Therefore, now is the time to tune up what you know about protecting sensitive data. This program will teach you the latest tools and techniques for securing your data, including encryption, virus protection, safe communications, electronic signatures, secure authentication, and more. You will also learn how to implement a practical, five-step approach to securing your PC and the questions you should ask your staff to ensure server-based information remains protected. Security failures, such as client or customer data breaches, are costly - they can even drive your company out of business. So, what security tools do you need, and how should you use them to secure your sensitive data and systems? Can you risk attempting to manage today's threats using yesterday's techniques? Participate in this program to learn how to identify viable and practical solutions to mitigating today's security threats.

Knowing the numbers is a valued skill, but not nearly enough to make you a real business leader. True leaders put in the work and make sacrifices for others. Leadership is a learned skill, a skill that must be practiced. It may look simple, and it is - only if you know what to do and how to do it. Leadership requires one to develop a greater understanding of intangibles that are difficult to quantify - but are priceless. The best leaders care about others, are trustworthy and are credible. We will discuss proven tactics to enhance those skills. Worthy for those who want to become even more valuable as a business leader. This stand-alone-event is part of our 2025 CAS (Client Accounting Services) three-part series. Today, more and more business clients are seeking greater strategic insight and a higher level of value from their accounting professional. These courses will help you explore this new this opportunity and be better prepared to meet client demands. The three 2-credit events in this series are: Advancing Your Role as a Business Leader - October 31 Preparing for a New Role as a Fractional CFO - What to Do - November 7 Ready to be an Effective CFO? Skills to Succeed - November 14OSCPA has partnered with the Idaho Society of CPAs for this event.

The most difficult concepts to master when dealing with flow-through business entities are the basis and distribution concepts. Major error and malpractice issues occur if the CPA does not fully understand the impact of these rules. This course is designed to focus on the practical applications of these rules.OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.

Join Greg and George as they walk through strategies for purchasing real estate, including written allocation provisions. They'll also discuss how to easily and inexpensively break out the purchase price apportioned to improvements into its components: Building, land improvements and personal property. They'll take a deep dive into claiming bonus depreciation, section 179 and de minimis deductions on real estate. Additionally, how to deduct remodeling costs of rental properties and owner-occupied business real estate. You'll get practical sample documents, including cost segregation information and de minimis policies. Apportionment of purchase price to land, building, personal property and land improvement. Bonus depreciation, section 179 and de minimis expensing for real estate. Financing considerations, including whether clients should make the real property election out of section 163(j).OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.

The planning process to become a fractional CFO is complex and essential, with many considerations. First, should you become a fractional CFO? Do you want to work with an established entity or hang out your own shingle? What are the pros and cons of the alternatives? What are the steps to take? Making sound decisions is not easy. Can you provide the skills and services that smaller organizations need? Many who attempt to become a fractional CFO fail. Learn from their mistakes! This stand-alone-event is part of our 2025 CAS (Client Accounting Services) three-part series. Today, more and more business clients are seeking greater strategic insight and a higher level of value from their accounting professional. These courses will help you explore this new this opportunity and be better prepared to meet client demands. The three 2-credit events in this series are: Advancing Your Role as a Business Leader - October 31 Preparing for a New Role as a Fractional CFO - What to Do - November 7 Ready to be an Effective CFO? Skills to Succeed - November 14OSCPA has partnered with the Idaho Society of CPAs for this event.