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ChatGPT and Advanced Accounting Research (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This course provides a concise overview of how artificial intelligence, particularly ChatGPT and other AI tools, is transforming accounting research methodologies and practices. Students will explore the shift from traditional search engine-based research to AI-driven insights, learning how to leverage various AI platforms for enhanced financial analysis, regulatory compliance, and strategic decision-making. The course emphasizes practical applications of AI in accounting contexts while addressing critical considerations such as data verification, ethical usage, and professional judgment. 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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The AI Revolution in 2026: What CPAs Should Know (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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AI is reshaping accounting, tax, and finance. This update surveys the state of AI technology in 2026: core concepts, software tools, risks/controls, and practical CPA use cases. You will leave with an expanded AI vocabulary, a current view of the AI landscape, and actionable talking points for staff, clients, and service providers. 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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Getting the Most When Selling a Business: Little Details to Get Top Value (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Every business will be sold eventually. When you have built a great business and decide to move on – you want the most you can get for that terrific organization! What are the steps to take to maximize the value realized? What do buyers really want? What are the three levers to achieve maximum value? If you want top dollar, preparing to sell takes years of planning. This seminar helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, CFOs, Board members, controllers, and their advisors prepare for a successful sale of the organization to maximize shareholder value. We will outline the process to get the most bang for the buck. Proper exit planning demands planning and time.
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Excel for Accounting Professionals Session 1: Tables and Named References (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Transforming how you use Excel with engaging and expert-led instruction Designed for you to work alongside an expert and complete the same exercises, you'll dig deeper into topics, including: Benefits of using named references for faster navigation Increased versatility and efficiency withing your Excel workbooks Excel Tables special properties and Error reduction for greater productivity. Mastering Excel functions Excel mastery involves understanding how to create functional and efficient workbooks. The instructor will guide you through Tables, named references, and more as you build on basic Excel skills and use critical functions, such as: Excel conventions Critical shortcuts Efficient navigation techniques Automatic formula updating *Session 1 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 2: Data Validation and Conditional Formatting] (https:// https://www.aicpa-cima.com/cpe-learning/webcast/excel-for-accounting-professionals-session-2--data-validation-and-conditional-formatting) to further prepare to tackle real-world issues and build powerful workbooks.*
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Safety Synergy: Uniting Elements for a Secure Workplace (1.2 hours) [NT]
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Online
1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Creating a culture of safety in a workplace requires attention in many different areas. We will bring these areas into focus and provide attendees with information on how to make their individual workplaces safer for everyone.
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Crypto, Blockchain and Taxes (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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For accounting and tax professionals, understanding the inner workings of blockchain and cryptocurrency is no longer just an advantage—it’s a necessity. This course provides an in-depth look into the mechanics of digital currencies and revolutionary blockchain technology, equipping attendees with the knowledge to navigate benefits and risks effectively. Special emphasis is placed on the tax implications for both individuals and estates, ensuring that attendees can confidently advise on these issues, which are becoming increasingly relevant in financial planning and asset management. This offering is more than just a learning experience; it’s an investment in one’s professional growth. By understanding the tax complexities and estate planning challenges posed by digital assets, participants will be able to offer valuable insights and strategic solutions. They will emerge from this course not just with theoretical knowledge but with actionable skills that can be applied immediately. In a landscape where digital assets are becoming commonplace, this is the education that will differentiate the exceptional from the average. Join today and step into a role as a leader in finance for the digital age.
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Surgent's IT Systems and Data Management (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Explore the critical intersections between information technology (IT) systems and data management through this specialized CPE course for accounting professionals. This session covers business resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, change management processes, and much more. Through interactive discussions and hands-on activities, participants will learn how to enhance their organization's IT framework while ensuring robust data collection and storage. Equip yourself to oversee IT systems with confidence and reinforce data integrity and system availability.
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Building Personal Leadership Skills (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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People skills are the most significant skills that professionals need to develop and yet are often the last skills perfected. This course will help participants understand personality types and the successful interactions with clients, peers and family. In addition, participants will learn Neuro-linguistic programming and develop the ability to better understand nonverbal language, which is key to communication. Participants will also learn techniques to enhance memory and to improve the ability to recall key facts.
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Surgent's Engagement Letters: Scope and Risk Management (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Strong engagement letters protect your firm. They spell out what work you will (and won't) do, who is responsible for what, and how problems will be handled. Weak or vague letters may expose firms to potential liability. In this course, you'll learn how to draft, update, and enforce engagement letters that actually work in the real world. We pull from industry guidance, malpractice insurer data, and peer-review findings to show you the clauses that matter, how to prevent "scope creep" (work expanding beyond what was agreed), and how to not compromise your independence.
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Surgent's Basics of Employment Law for Non-HR Professionals (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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Learn the basics of employment law and how they affect best practices to help control the interview and discover hidden talents of applicants.
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Expand Your Analytical Toolbox More Tools for Success (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Valuation techniques and cash management activities are two other tool categories that can round out your analytical toolbox. In this course we will initially discuss how to turn your financial plan into a powerful valuation engine. We then will discuss the formation of an efficient cash management program based on solid banker relationships. Finally, we will review Ten Steps for keeping your financial toolbox full.
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Build Better Budgets: Fundamental Techniques (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This session provides insights for enhancing the preparation and utilization of budgets. Seasoned accountants will benefit from a refreshed awareness of popular techniques. Budding financial professionals will obtain novel insight regarding fundamental budgeting concepts. All participants will develop an appreciation for the holistic nature of budgeting as an integral tool for planning and control.
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Surgent's Predicting Future Financial Issues Facing the Financial Executive - 4 Tech & 4 [NT]
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $279
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Our financial and economic series is designed to take key topics for financial executives and explore them in detail such that the CFO/controller/financial executive can take away useful and practical recommendations dealing with the topic at hand. The program explores the current economic trends and analyze their impact on you as the financial executive in areas professional skepticism, medical care costs, social security viability, the dollar as a world currency, the national infrastructure and the "fate of the states" as well as the AICPA's top 10 trends and technologies. Specific recommendations and insights will be offered to you to deal with the challenges.
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Performance Management (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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The tools for managing performance and addressing misconduct are not identical. The failure to point this out to leaders has often resulted in the use of the wrong tool. Reinforcing good performance and securing improvements in performance requires skill in coaching employees, making effective requests, and providing effective feedback. This course provides practical knowledge and scripts for setting, communicating, and enforcing performance expectations, such that personal and employer liability is avoided.
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Powerful Public Speaking (1.5 hours) [NT]
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Online
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $39
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How you say what you say is more important than what you say. According to a UCLA study, 93% of a communicators effectiveness is based on non-verbal cues. This foundational program include a focus on the verbal, vocal and visual delivery techniques appropriate for the business environment, which can improve a speakers credibility, influence and impact. Depending on the course length other topics include; managing fear, organizing your presentation, increasing attention and interaction, handling questions, infusing humor, creating impactful visuals, and more.
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Surgent's Privacy and Security Training: Obligations of Confidentiality and Safekeeping (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Spear phishing. Ransomware. Malware. Like the threats your business faces, the cybersecurity lexicon is constantly evolving. This comprehensive presentation imparts practical privacy and data security know-how and creates fluency with the latest terminology. Learn best practices for cybersecurity safety, as well as tailored training for those in positions responsible for implementing security policies. It is just as important to be diligent, safe, and well-versed in the attacks that we face in our personal lives.
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Understand Yours and Other People's Styles: Meet Them in the Middle and Be More Effective in Generating Great Results! (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Understanding your own and the people style of others whom you are dealing with which can establish rapport more easily, help you become more persuasive, and avoid miscommunication with the possibility of rubbing someone the wrong way. In our session, you will gain insights into your people style, ways to improve communication connectivity and how to understand your team's functionality (or more likely dysfunctionality).
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Habits That May Keep You from Promotions, Raises or Achieving Your ntial in Organizations: Small Steps Can Lead to Big Changes (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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In this course, we will discuss what derailer habits keep you from achieving your fullest potential and deserving place.
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Key Financial and Economic Issues Facing the Financial Executive (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $49
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The webcast explores the challenges of the current economic trends and analyzes their impact on you as the financial executive in areas of human resource management; credit markets and banking; risk management and pandemic style disruptions; cash flow planning strategies; debt and equity mix impacts in uncertain markets; globalization of the market in times of uncertainty; retirement planning and social security funding; and acquiring distressed companies and assets. Specific recommendations and insights will be offered to you to deal with the challenges.
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Surgent's Agentic AI Foundations for Finance and Accounting (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
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This course introduces accounting, auditing, and finance professionals to the emerging field of agentic AI: autonomous, goal-driven systems capable of planning, acting, and learning with minimal human intervention. Participants will explore how agentic AI differs from traditional automation (RPA) and generative AI, and how these agents are being deployed in finance and accounting. The course emphasizes foundational concepts such as the Perceive-Reason-Act-Learn (PRAL) loop and ethical decision-making frameworks. To ground abstract ideas in practice, participants will experience a brief agent simulation using basic ChatGPT, showcasing how natural language prompts can emulate agentic behavior, such as goal setting, clarification loops, and structured task execution. The course also highlights real-world agent platforms (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, IBM watsonx, and UiPath) to provide context on enterprise adoption trends and discusses emerging global regulations such as the EU AI Act and the U.S. Executive Order on Safe AI.