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Seeing Beyond the Numbers: Analysis for CFOs & Controllers (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Financial statements are a window into what is going on in the day-to-day operations of the company. They help us see what the company's strengths and weaknesses are. However, financial statements can often have different messages depending on the user. 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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Auditing digital assets: Entity’s use of a service organization (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $49
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Auditing entities that hold or transact digital assets and use service organizationsAlthough the use of digital assets is rapidly expanding, guidance on how to effectively account for and audit digital assets has not kept pace. This is where the AICPA can help. Based on the AICPA Practice Aid Accounting for and Auditing of Digital Assets, this webcast can help you determine what to do when your client uses a service organization to help transact in, safeguard, or account for its digital assets. You'll discover: How to identify whether a service organization is present, including how to determine the nature of the services provided Key considerations when a service organization provides services related to digital assets, including the role of a SOC report in understanding the control environment The risks, challenges and factors to consider when performing audit procedures when service organizations are being utilized
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Thinking Like an Auditor When Preparing Your Financial Statements (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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External auditors understand concepts like materiality, reasonableness, and risk of material misstatement. This course will explain how to think like an auditor when preparing and fairly presenting your financial statements and related disclosures.
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Fraud & Embezzlement: Case Studies from the Trenches (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Governmental entities are the second largest victims of embezzlement. This seminar examines recent events involving theft of public money and circumstances that allowed the fraud to occur. Case studies we examine include the 2012 $54 million embezzlement from the City of Dixon by Rita Crundwell. The events that impacted the small Illinois town of 16,000 residents was the largest governmental fraud case to date, and spanned an astonishing 20 years. This remarkable story inspired an award-winning documentary, "All the Queen's Horses." We will also examine factors that led to scandals involving the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, World Com, Collin Street Bakery and the Ohio American Cancer Society, among others. This course is ideal for CPAs, government finance personnel, all Internal Auditors, lawyers, governance professionals, accountants and human resource personnel. 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 Controllership Skills Update: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Mergers, acquisitions, and partnering have long been strategic vehicles to grow or change an existing organization. Corporate America has extensive experience in merging with or acquiring firms. However, its track record of being able to unify an acquired firm with the acquirer and provide a single organization with increased growth potential has been somewhat shaky. This session provides a roadmap including specific actions for financial professionals focused on improving the results of an acquisition, sale, formation of an alliance, and/or outsourced activities. This program continues to be updated based upon trends and recent events. In addition to traditional topics, it includes discussions on the impact of taxes, corporate structures to manage M&A and internal venture capital, strategic spin-offs/splits, issues concerning goodwill, and managing outsourced activities. The program expands the topics covered in the Controllership Skills Update Series. As with the other programs, this brief session is aimed at renewing and expanding participants' existing skills, by providing specific actions to improve an organization's results. Real-world examples are used throughout the session.
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Surgent's Depreciation Rules for Bonus and Section 179 Expensing (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) passed in 2025, 100% bonus depreciation is now permanently available for new and used assets. OBBBA has restored 100% bonus depreciation and increased the depreciation that can be taken under Section 179. OBBBA also provided a new, important depreciation topic — qualified production property. These topics, covered extensively in the program, are vital for tax practitioners advising business taxpayers.
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Surgent's The AI-augmented Professional: Practical Tools, Real Risks, and Immediate Use Cases (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future concept; it is a current necessity. This session provides a practical roadmap for practitioners to leverage AI safely and effectively. We move from a survey of available tools (from free apps to specialized software) to a deep dive into the ethical guardrails required to protect client data and maintain professional standards. Participants will leave with a playbook of real-world use cases that can be implemented immediately.
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Forensic Accounting: When The Office Is A Crime Scene (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Embezzlement happens often to many small businesses. Unfortunately, the lack of internal controls allow the embezzlement to remain undetected for years. But when it is discovered, the small business owner will most likely contact their CPA for advice. What should you do when your client contacts you about their employee embezzling money from their business? What options should you present to your client? How can your client protect themselves, while investigating the embezzlement? What steps need to be taken about preserving any documents, emails, texts, or phone calls? This course teaches how to engage the client, properly identify the evidence needed to prove the crime, how to write the report for civil and criminal trial, and best practices in preserving electronic and paper evidence. 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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Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Reporting Explained
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
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This course provides a high-level overview of the most important issues facing nonprofit entities and their auditors. The focus of this course is on explaining the theory behind major issues and trends, enabling professionals to understand the most important aspects of relevant professional and regulatory standards related to reliable financial reporting for nonprofit entities. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Surgent's Form 1065 Boot Camp: Step-by-Step Preparation with Completed Forms
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
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The objective of this course is to train new, rusty, or returning-to-practice staff with a hands-on, pencil-pushing gold standard for preparing Form 1065. Common to advanced issues of partnerships are explored in the current course that can double as a quick and practical reference guide for tax treatment and tax preparation guidelines. Within each chapter, we illustrate various parts and areas of interest when preparing a 1065, including examples and corresponding tax forms. We bring it all together in the final two chapters with a comprehensive example that integrates and links all previous chapters. The course and instruction delivery are geared toward a basic understanding and progress to more complex issues via Surgent's "Step-by-Step" preparation guide.
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Conflict Resolution and Effective Communication Training (1.2 hours) [NT]
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Online
1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Strong teams communicate openly, listen actively, and handle conflict with respect. This engaging session helps participants recognize different communication styles, manage misunderstandings, and turn tough conversations into opportunities for collaboration. Through discussions and practical tools, team members will build confidence in addressing challenges while strengthening trust and connection in the workplace.
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Take Command of your Time (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Manage distractions, decrease stress and improve productivity. This training is designed to help business professionals improve their productivity and work performance by learning how to prioritize time, decrease distractions and lower stress. 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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Supervised AI Agents as Internal Audit Team Members (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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How should internal auditors and finance team leaders use Agentic AI? What are the dos and do nots? When deployed properly AI is wonderful. Can AI help with SOX testing? We review how to avoid the common mistakes that eliminate the benefits that AI can provide. Join us to learn about those expensive lessons. Agentic AI (‘Artificial Intelligence’) is rapidly being deployed by leading audit, compliance, and finance teams. While AI agents are not yet replacing all of today’s knowledge workers like auditors, accountants, and IT security professionals, the knowledge workers that effectively use Agentic AI may soon be replacing those knowledge workers who do not use these tools to drive high quality business growth and scale. AI is moving beyond automation to become a true teammate, especially in the governance, risk, and compliance processes. This session will show how supervised AI agents can work alongside accountants, auditors and IT security professionals to enhance efficiency, consistency, and assurance quality. Of critical importance is training and supervision so that the AI agents accomplish their testing to mee the intended quality standards. Attendees will leave with a practical view of how AI-powered testing can be applied to both internal and external assurance. Be prepared and learn from others.
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Excel for Accounting Professionals Session 4: Conditional Summing and Lookups (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Boosting productivity with Excel For those unfamiliar with conditional summing, you're in for a revelation —it's an impactful technique that improves productivity in creating reports. You'll learn how to optimize Excel efficiency by managing duplicates, selecting appropriate shortcuts, and performing lookups. Practical hands-on Excel learning exercises taught by highly engaging expert in the fieldYou'll also deepen your skills and tackle real-world Excel workbooks that address the following: Benefits of using lookup functions over direct cell referencing A comprehensive exploration of the popular VLOOKUP function Techniques for removing duplicates to create a distinct set of report labels *Session 4 is one of eight sessions that is available as an individual session. Each session builds on the prior sessions, so you'll want to consider watching [Session 5: Error Trapping and Improving Lookups] (https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/webcast/excel-for-accounting-professionals-session-5--error-trapping-and-improving-lookups) to further prepare to tackle real-world issues and build powerful workbooks.*
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Recognizing Lies: How to Detect and Prevent (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Trust is the glue that binds all relationships. Regardless, humans tell lies, a cruel fact. Every lie undermines trust and damages productivity. What signals indicate lies? How are the cues properly interpreted? How can you protect yourself from lies? Learn how to discern lies effectively. Do not be taken advantage of. Learn an established and proven process to uncover the truth.
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The CPA's 2026 Guide to Cryptocurrency and Blockchain (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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We have passed the 15 year anniversary of the start of the cryptocurrency market with the release of Bitcoin in 2010. It is estimated today that 1 in 5 people in the U.S. trade in cryptocurrency. With the recent changes in the legislative landscape, this number is poised for substantial growth. In addition, there will be natural evolution towards "smart contracts" powered by AI and the integration of cryptocurrency as the payment mechanism. For these reasons, it is important for every CPA to have a baseline understanding of the cryptocurrency marketplace and the technology it is built on. 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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New Corporate Transparency Act Developments and Proposed FinCen Reporting Requirements for Real Estate Sellers (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imposed a new reporting requirement that went into effect on January 1, 2024. Millions of businesses may have to file a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report. In a surprise turn of events, the Federal District Court from the Northern District of Alabama ruled on March 1, 2024 in National Small Business United v. Yellen (“NSB”) that the CTA is unconstitutional. This course will discuss the CTA’s provisions and the court’s decision in NSB. Also covered will be future implications for business entities and steps to consider given the recent ruling. We will also discuss recent proposed rulemaking by FinCen with respect to nonfinanced purchases of residential real estate and gratuitous transfers so that businesses can prepare for any additional reporting burdens that might arise. **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.
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World Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application-Part 2 26-27 (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
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Build on the foundation from Part 1 and deepen your expertise by mastering the treatment of manufacturing overhead. Using the cost system of a real company, you'll learn to distinguish overhead costs that can be directly traced versus directly assigned, and how to structure inventory cost pools for accurate product costing. Explore methods for handling deviations from normal manufacturing processes and see how all overhead costs can be systematically integrated into a comprehensive cost system. Completing Part 1 is highly recommended, as its principles carry forward into this advanced application. World Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application - Part 1
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Accounting Industry Update 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
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Stay current on recent changes in accounting and auditing. Review Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Private Company Council (PCC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standard-setting activity in the current year. Implementation dates will be provided so you can plan for changes, and the course will highlight the changes that will be implemented in the current year. Also, we'll discuss the difference between public and private company requirements.
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Tax Implications of Retirement Plan Distributions (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
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This session will address the complex rules of retirement distributions, review key provisions of the SECURE Act 2.0, and provide practical strategies of maximizing tax benefits for your client. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.