CPE + Events Catalog
2026-27 OSCPA-Select™ CPE - 2 catalog options:
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Beyond the Basics: Financial Ratios You Might Be Overlooking (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
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Overview: Understanding your company's financial health requires more than just traditional metrics. This webinar is designed to reveal deeper insights through advanced, underutilized financial ratios. In this session, accounting and finance professionals will explore metrics such as operating leverage, free cash flow yield, and margin of safety-tools that go beyond standard ratios to deliver nuanced perspectives on profitability, risk exposure, and operational efficiency. 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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Upholding Independence While Holding Your Client's Hand (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Many entities look to their CPA as a trusted advisor when tackling complex accounting topics. This is more relevant now than ever. The FASB's big three accounting pronouncements involving revenue recognition, leasing and credit losses have placed a magnifying glass on this reality. Practitioners need to exercise caution to ensure they maintain independence as they assist their review and audit clients with such matters, as well as with compilation engagements. This course addresses these issues and explores best practices and guidance provided by the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct.
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Becoming a Fractional CFO: What to Do and How? (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Are you considering becoming a fractional CFO, or possibly a public CPA firm or consulting practice that wants to offer fractional CFO services or advisory services? Either way, do you truly know what to do and how? Are you aware of the many pitfalls? Becoming a successful fractional CFO is complicated and it is not a trivial career change! Review the lessons learned from experienced fractional CFOs on how to enter, engage and run a thriving fractional CFO practice. Whether you are in public practice, a consultant, or in industry - be prepared for this as a possibility. Many fractional CFOs do not execute their practice as they could, and that is why they are not very successful. This discussion includes over fifty (50) recommendations to strengthen your fractional CFO practice. What do clients typically need? Are you better as a solo practitioner or should you join a firm? How to manage the relationship(s)? Every effective organizations make plans and if you want a winning fractional CFO business, come join us and learn how. 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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Form 709 Guidance: Gift Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Returns 26-27 (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Form 709 is filed by many tax practitioners but are frequently filed incorrectly. Especially troublesome is reporting the gift correctly on Schedule A, making the correct GST allocations and meeting the adequate disclosure requirements. This program will review common problems for preparers and provide examples of presentations for many of the frequently reported gifts in recent years.
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Surgent's Getting Ready for Busy Season: Review Individual Tax Form Changes (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Getting ready for busy season involves not only knowing the tax rules for 2026 but also knowing how those rules are incorporated into the IRS tax forms practitioners will be using to prepare 2026 tax returns. This course provides preparer attendees with an up-to-date review of important new tax forms, key tax developments, and tax law changes as they are reflected in IRS forms for 2026 and IRS filing issues and deadlines as they relate to 2026.
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Surgent's Critical Issues Involving Taxation of Construction Contractors (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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Many consider taxation of construction contractors to be the most complex area of the Internal Revenue Code. This industry is subject to many elections and considerations to reduce or defer amounts owed. In this course, we will highlight these areas and discuss potential opportunities for practitioners and their clients. We will also discuss the impact of recent legislation on construction taxation, including changes to net operating losses and the AMT rules. This is a critical presentation tailored for CPAs who work for or represent construction contractors.
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Comprehensive Accounting and Financial Reporting Update (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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This course covers recently issued accounting and financial statement reporting standards from the Financial Accounting Standards Board. Key implementation challenges and experiences from public company filings will be identified. 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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Building a Roadmap to Your AI-Enabled Finance Function (1.5 hours)
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Online
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $69
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Many finance leaders are aware of the disruptive potential of AI and emerging technologies, but knowing how to take the first step can be a challenge. This highly practical session is designed to bridge that gap. You'll define a clear vision for your finance function, assess current capabilities, uncover key transformation opportunities, and build a tailored, actionable roadmap to drive meaningful progress within your organization.
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A Working Parent's Guide to Prioritizing Mental Wellness (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Balancing the demands of a career and family life is a challenge faced by many working parents. The pressure to excel at work while being fully present at home can leave little room for self-care, often leading to burnout and mental fatigue. This course is designed to address these challenges head-on by providing actionable strategies to prioritize your mental health and overall well-being. The course emphasizes practical, easy-to-implement techniques tailored for busy working parents. From setting boundaries to prioritizing sleep and physical activity, you'll learn how to create sustainable habits that enhance your well-being. You'll also explore how to recognize the signs that additional support -whether from friends, family, therapy, or other resources- is necessary, and how to seek help without guilt or hesitation. Ultimately, this course will help you regain a sense of balance and control in your life by equipping you with tools to manage stress, build resilience, and rediscover joy in both your professional and personal roles. 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 Four Tiers of Loss Limitations: A Guide to the Rules for Pass-Through Entities (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
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Owners of S corporations and partnerships are subject to numerous limitations on pass-through losses, each with unique rules, applications, and complexities. With the increase in popularity of pass-through business entities, it is essential for CPAs to understand the complexities and interactions of these pass-through loss limitations.
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The One Big Beautiful Bill: 2025 tax legislation (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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The President signed on July 4, 2025, one of most consequential tax legislation in recent years. The well-informed tax practitioner will want to stay abreast of these developments! This course will start with a short background of this legislation as it made its way through Congress and to the President's desk. We will then review the final provisions that was approved by the Senate and passed by the House. 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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Internal Controls Over Compliance vs Compliance (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
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Accurately identifying and testing controls over compliance is critical, yet it remains a common deficiency highlighted in peer reviews. This course offers a comprehensive overview of internal controls over compliance, with a focus on their application to Single Audits. Participants will learn how to effectively align internal controls with specific compliance requirements. Additionally, we will address one of the most frequent findings in audits of governmental entities receiving federal grants: the misidentification of controls and the confusion between compliance and control processes. This course will help clarify the distinction, equipping you with the tools to enhance audit quality and ensure compliance effectiveness. 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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ChatGPT and IRS Taxation Law Research (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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The course provides a concise overview of how to use ChatGPT to more effectively and efficiently research IRS taxation law. It delves into techniques for extracting precise information from complex tax legislation, interpreting IRS guidelines with AI assistance, and utilizing ChatGPT's advanced language models for nuanced legal analysis. Participants will learn how to streamline their research process, identify relevant tax law precedents, and apply AI insights to real-world tax scenarios, enhancing their professional proficiency in navigating the intricate world of IRS taxation. 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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Forensic Accounting: The AI-Powered Expert and Investigator (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing forensic accounting, giving professionals powerful new ways to trace funds, uncover fraud, and analyze massive volumes of financial data in minutes instead of weeks. In this engaging course, you'll discover how AI can enhance financial investigations, strengthen expert witness reports, and support litigation and discovery efforts. Learn where AI can create strategic advantages in the courtroom, as well as the disclosure, reliability, and admissibility challenges that every expert must understand. Through practical examples and real-world applications, you'll see how AI can uncover hidden patterns, identify critical evidence, and generate actionable insights. Whether you investigate fraud, support litigation, or serve as an expert witness, this course will help you harness AI with confidence, credibility, and defensible results. 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 Adapting to OBBBA Changes: A Strategic Review (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
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Accounting and finance practitioners are continually asked for strategic planning advice. In this course, we will cover topics that will make clients, and their advisors, tax smart and tax prepared for the coming year and beyond. This program is a two-hour review and analysis of what we consider some of the most important changes from the OBBBA impacting both individual and business clients.
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Surgent's Artificial Intelligence for Accounting and Finance Professionals (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the accounting and finance profession at an unprecedented pace. What began as automation of repetitive tasks has evolved into systems capable of complex data analysis, natural language processing, and predictive modeling. Modern AI tools — such as generative AI, machine learning, and intelligent automation — are reshaping how professionals audit, forecast, analyze risk, and deliver client insights. This course provides accounting and finance professionals with a comprehensive understanding of how AI is reshaping workflows, client services, and decision-making. Participants will explore current applications of AI within firms and corporate finance, assess risks and governance considerations, and learn strategies for adapting professional roles in an increasingly automated landscape. The program also examines the emerging ethical, regulatory, and data privacy challenges associated with AI adoption.
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Surgent's Build an AI Agent With ChatGPT: A Hands-on Lab for Financial Professionals (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $119
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This hands-on course introduces accountants, auditors, and finance professionals to agentic AI by simulating autonomous behavior using the basic version of ChatGPT. Participants will use role-play, prompt engineering, and guided interaction loops to create agents that simulate planning, decision-making, and communication workflows. No coding or advanced access is required. Participants will practice designing task-specific prompts, simulating agent autonomy using flipped interaction patterns, and evaluating agent output for risk and effectiveness. This course makes agentic AI accessible to all learners through practical, scenario-based exercises using tools they already have.
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What's Going on at the GASB (2026/27) (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This course provides a focused update on major recent pronouncements issued by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Coverage includes GASB Statement No. 103 (financial reporting model improvements), GASB Statement No. 104 (enhanced disclosures for capital assets), and GASB Statement No. 105 (subsequent events). Participants will also receive a high-level overview of active GASB exposure drafts and ongoing projects. The course is designed to help auditors, preparers, and financial leaders understand how these developments affect audits, financial statement preparation, and board reporting. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Fiduciary Accounting for Estates and Trusts (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Financial accounting for trusts and estates is one of the least understood branches of accounting. It is not particularly concerned with recording income and expenses but is obsessed with determining whether receipts and expenditures are assigned to income or principal/corpus. This course will dive into this tricky area and provide a reporting guide for fiduciary accounting.
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The Essential A&A Update with Renee Rampulla (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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This course is essential and designed to assist those who need to remain up to date on recently issued and effective guidance impacting the accounting and auditing of private companies. Learn about the accounting requirements involving crypto assets, income taxes, joint ventures, governmental grants, interim reporting, and hedging. Understand the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' (AICPA) recently issued Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs) and Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARSs).
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