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ChatGPT and Advanced Financial Analysis for Accountants (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 to utilize ChatGPT for advanced financial analysis in accounting. The session reveals how to combine sophisticated evaluation and interpretation of financial data with the cutting-edge AI capabilities of ChatGPT. Aimed at enhancing the understanding of an entity's performance, predicting future financial health, and aiding in informed business decision-making, this course goes beyond basic financial statement analysis to include a wide array of techniques and tools. 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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Partnership Essentials: Review & Update (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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This course examines the critical issues and special opportunities facing partnerships and their partners, as well as the relationship between limited liability companies and partnerships, with a focus on reporting tax basis capital accounts. *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 terri.storer@acpen.com
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Not Just Your Everyday FASB Update (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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This course highlights significant updates that affect financial reporting and related attestation services. We will explore novel FASB pronouncements while examining the enduring impact of lease accounting and revenue recognition standards. This course will provide reminders regarding both GAAP and non-GAAP financial reporting alternatives for closely held entities. We will also explore selected guidance regarding audit, review, and compilation engagements.
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Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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In today's data-driven world, spreadsheets serve as the backbone of business and personal productivity. However, creating complex and error-prone spreadsheets can lead to critical mistakes and inefficiencies. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to build robust spreadsheets, implementing a range of controls and safeguards to ensure data integrity, streamline processes, and maximize accuracy. 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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It Is Legal, But Is It Really Ethical?, featuring Rob Berry and Bob Mims (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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This discussion outlines situations where ‘legal’ and ‘ethical’ are not necessarily in alignment. How should you handle these issues? We will detail a better thought process to help you avoid ‘crossing the line.’
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The Controllership Series: The Controller's Role in Debt Management (1.5 hours)
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Online
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Debt Management: Debt management often involves administering loan agreements and ensuring bank compliance. Compliance: Controllers help ensure compliance with federal and local laws, provisions, and financial regulations.
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Failure to Detect Fraud and the Reasons Why (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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SAS 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in A Financial Audit state that auditors fail to detect fraud for two reasons. One, they haven’t been trained to look for it and two, they don’t know what it looks like. I would like to add a third reason: they don’t want to find fraud because it causes problems for the audit. This session is designed to familiarize auditors with the many faces of fraud; where and how to look for them and what to do if you think you have found fraud. Not everyone is able to recognize fraud. During this program, the attributes a fraud auditor (frauditor) will be discussed. In order to recognize fraud, an auditor must understand their client’s operation. What is an indicator in one client’s operation may be business as usual in another, and you have to know the difference. After viewing this program, chances are you will never look at your client the same way! YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Integrate ChatGPT into Your Client Advisory Services-Updated (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Two of the hottest topics in the CPA profession today are CAS (client advisory services) and ChatGPT. This course will explain how to bring these two worlds together by integrating ChatGPT and other generative AI applications into your client advisory services. John Higgins, a leading advisor to the profession on ChatGPT and a seasoned client advisor on technology based solutions, will show you how you can position your firm and yourself as a "go to" advisor on how to embrace this technology in virtually any type of business. John will address how to use this technology as a research and writing assistant in your client services and how to advise your clients on this revolutionary technology and all benefits and "gotchas" that come with it. If you want to step up your advisory game, this course is a "must take." 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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Invest in Your Mental Health and Avoid Burnout (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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For the ambitious female finance professional, working hard and going above and beyond are necessary for success. Sadly, taking time to care for themselves can be seen as counter-productive to meeting their career goals. Over ninety percent of women executives are feeling significantly higher levels of stress that they attribute to increased responsibilities and priorities outside the workplace compared to life before the pandemic. Burnout is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that causes exhaustion, negativity toward one's job and reduced professional efficacy. It has become so pervasive that it's now recognized as an occupational phenomenon by the World Health Organization. To reignite your enthusiasm at work, you don't necessarily need to find a new job or time for a spa day or bubble bath. You need concrete strategies to invest in your mental health without compromising your ability to rise to the next level in your career. 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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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.
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Looking at the AICPA’s “Non-authoritative Guidance” From an Ethics Perspective (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Most professional accountants are at least somewhat familiar with the AICPA’s Code of Professional Conduct, available at the AICPA’s online ethics library. But the online ethics library also includes other information, such as non-authoritative case studies. This course provides an overview of – and commentary on – these instructive supplemental materials.
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Surgent's Current Issues in Accounting and Auditing: An Annual Update (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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Designed for accounting, auditing, and attestation practitioners at all levels in public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a detailed review of the multitude of FASB and AICPA standards and reports issued over the past few years, including a discussion of the FASB's Stage 3 PIR report on ASC 606. It also provides an overview of recent PCAOB inspection report findings and SEC rulemaking activity. Through hands-on examples and illustrations, this course will help you apply the guidance in practice. We further discuss other important A&A practice matters to be aware of, including an update on the quality management standards and soon-to-be-effective requirements for engagement quality reviews.
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Surgent's Individual and Financial-Planning Tax Camp
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $299
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Each year brings its own set of tax planning challenges, and this year is no exception. This course aims to arm tax planners with planning strategies and ideas that all clients, but in particular, wealthy clients, middle-income clients, and closely held business owners need to consider right now to take advantage of present opportunities and plan for future tax advantages. Learn strategies that can really have an impact on client lives, while also bringing value to you and your firm. Please Note: 2026 returns are not covered in this course. They will be covered after their issuance, as part of our spring 2027 course release.
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State Tax Nexus: Frequently Awkward Questions (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Award winning discussion leader Mark Hugh discusses both nexus basics and new developments in the dynamic, ever changing world of state income and sales tax nexus. This valuable course answers your frequently asked questions, reviews key factors in examining potential nexus consequences, takes a tour through the rules in states comprising 50% of the US, and identifies free, online multistate resources. *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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Cybersecurity & IT Risk for IT Auditors and Financial Auditors (3 hours)
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Online
3.0 Credits
Member Price: $109
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This course equips financial and information technology auditors with an understanding of cybersecurity risks and their impact on financial reporting as well as cybersecurity best practices. Participants will learn to identify threats, evaluate controls, and assess risk using recognized frameworks, with a focus on audit implications.
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Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (§199A) – The Ins & Outs
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $300
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was a major overhaul of our tax system that lowered the income tax rates for individual and corporate taxpayers and introduced the new 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction for sole proprietors and pass-through entities. The cornerstone of this course is the comprehensive discussion of the 20% QBI deduction final regulations under IRC §199A. *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 terri.storer@acpen.com
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Cost of Capital: What It Is and How to Use It (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Every business needs capital, and capital has a cost. Providers of debt and equity demand a return and the combination is the cost of capital for the business. This session discusses how to calculate the cost of capital, how to use it to make superior business decisions every day and some common ways organizations misuse this number. Who should understand your organization's cost of capital? Even if you are not yet the CFO, you need to thoroughly understand the cost of capital and its use. The cost of capital allows managers to, Get the biggest bang for the buck. If you want to enhance your corporate finance skills, this session is for you.
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Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (1.6 hours) [NT]
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Online
1.6 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, decision-making, and everyday life at an unprecedented pace. While its potential for innovation is immense, AI also raises profound ethical challenges around fairness, accountability, transparency, and human rights. Bias in algorithms, misuse of personal data, opaque decision-making, and the displacement of human judgment underscore the urgent need for ethical frameworks to guide AI development and use.
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Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English, is a 2 hour webcast highlighting the AICPA’s clarified risk assessment standards, along with a new Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS 145) related to understanding the entity, the entity’s environment, the entity’s internal controls, and assessing the risks of material misstatement. This session will attempt to simplify the requirements using common sense examples and language.
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Foundations of IT Audit for CPAs (3 hours)
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Online
3.0 Credits
Member Price: $109
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This course introduces CPAs, financial auditors as well as technology auditors to the foundational concepts of IT auditing. Participants will learn how IT systems support financial reporting, how to assess risk in IT environments, and how IT General Controls (ITGCs) and application controls impact audit procedures. The course also introduces IT audit planning and scoping to help auditors determine what systems and controls to evaluate.