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.
Private Company Simplified GAAP Alternatives (2 hours)
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
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The FASB formed the Private Company Council to provide certain alternatives in U.S. GAAP that are only available to nonpublic business entities, with limited exceptions for certain nonprofits. This course will provide insight into when adopting the accounting and financial reporting alternatives would be to the advantage of private companies.
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An Ethical Approach to Mental Health Issues at Work (2 hours) [NT]
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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In the past talking about mental issues in the workplace was taboo. Not anymore!!! So many of us suffer with mental health issues at some point in our lives. Poor mental health impacts, from a work perspective, productivity, absenteeism, retention and more. On a personal level it often causes personal distress and hopelessness. The Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) is addressing mental illness as a critical factor for the wellbeing of organizations. Additionally, the EEOC is cracking down on mental health discrimination. It is a very important topic for any functional business! This ethics-based webinar will bring awareness to this issue and offer suggestions on managing mental health issues in ethical, compassionate and healthy ways. It will offer suggestions on managing mental health issues for leaders, managers and all staff to create and environment of safety and belonging. This webinar will also address the topic of suicide talking about warning signs and resources. 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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Casualty Losses: Disaster Relief Act of 2024 (1 hour)
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1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
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Literally thousands of individual taxpayers may have increased deductions or exclusions from gross income as a result of the Disaster Relief Act of 2024! Casualty provisions of the Act are retroactive to December 19, 2019 through early 2025. Both low and high income taxpayers may benefit from the Act through exclusions of payments received as compensation for wildfire damages - retroactive to 2014! This course will review the provisions of this new act. 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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Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Cloud Forensics (1.4 hours)
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1.4 Credits
Member Price: $59
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Cloud computing has become a source of cyber-crime. “Cloud forensics is the application of digital forensics in cloud computing as a subset of network forensics to gather and preserve evidence in a way that is suitable for presentation in a court of law.” Cloud forensics is a combination of the varied types of accounting forensics including: • Digital forensics • Network forensics. • Hardware forensics In cloud crime, the cloud is considered the object when the target of the crime is the cloud service provider they are directly affected by the act. It is considered the subject of the crime when the criminal act is committed within the cloud environment. It is considered the tool when it is used to plan or conduct a crime. This course will delve into the many concepts involved in cloud forensics. The course complements other courses in the series of Becoming a Forensic Accountant.
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Ethical Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence (2 hours)
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Organizations and individuals enticed by the siren song of artificial intelligence cannot ignore ethical considerations. Professionals must consider accuracy of information, data privacy, independence, source citations, organizational policies, security, data retention, and other ethical matters. This course discusses ethical issues associated with the utilization of AI in a professional setting and provides suggested best practices. 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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Financial Storytelling the Key in Growing Your Organization to the Next Level (2 hours) [NT]
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2.0 Credits
Member Price: $125
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Are you responsible for presenting financial information to your organization, business associates, or clients? If you're a CEO, CFO, CPA, financial analyst or a manager needing to communicate financial information in an impactful way, this workshop will give you the necessary tools to tell more effective stories with your financial data. It is imperative in this fast-paced business environment, accountants need to gain a high-level understanding of the technology advances to help them focus their time on finding the story behind the numbers. Bring financial information to life and use it to communicate a story to an audience, with a focus on simplicity and ease of interpretation. This is accomplished through a mix of financial data, visualization, storytelling theory, best practices, and practical application.
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Surgent's Introduction to Forensic Accounting (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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Forensic accounting encompasses fraud investigation and prevention, as well as a wide variety of functions in litigation. Forensic accountants provide services ranging from serving as an expert witness, to litigation consultant and bankruptcy trustee. As our economy grows more complex, the need for forensic accountants grows as well. One critical role of the forensic accountant is exposing and examining financial fraud. Technology expands the way companies conduct business; however, technology also provides greater opportunities for those willing to commit fraud. Forensic accountants rely on their skills in accounting, coupled with their investigative skills, to explain to clients, courts, and jurors how fraudulent schemes occur and the effect caused by fraud. Forensic accountants also provide expert opinions in calculating damages in litigation and administering bankruptcy estates, as well as a host of other services.
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Surgent's Simply Auditing Not-for-Profits Efficiently (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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It's crazy to try to audit not-for-profits in the same manner that you do for-profits! The sane approach to auditing not-for-profits is to incorporate what makes them unique into the planning and performance of the audit. This course is designed to help you do just that! Obtain a superior working knowledge of auditing not-for-profit entities effectively and efficiently.
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Effective Coaching Strategies for High Performance (4 hours) [NT]
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
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This business coaching course is designed to enhance your coaching effectiveness by integrating innovative tools like ChatGPT (Generative AI) to support and elevate your coaching practice. You'll explore the key differences and similarities between coaching and managing, uncover the most important skill every coach should master, and learn how to get to the root cause of any problem. With hands-on coaching strategies, including neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) techniques, you'll enhance your ability to drive results. Additionally, you’ll discover how to use performance gap analysis to identify and bridge gaps, ensuring the success and growth of the individuals you coach.
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Forensic Accounting: Crafting Expert Reports (4 hours)
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4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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When forensic accountants are hired to conduct an analysis and investigations, they are commonly expected to write a report. This report can be short or long, depending on the circumstances. This presentation is how to write an effective expert report that will withstand scrutiny of both parties of litigation and the court. The presentation will also include best practices, ethics, and components of an effective report. 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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