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2026-27 OSCPA-Select™ CPE - 2 catalog options:
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Tactical Budgeting – Moving Beyond Traditional Budgets to Manage Performance (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Traditional budgets often consume significant time while delivering limited operational value. This session reframes budgeting as a tactical management tool rather than a once-a-year accounting exercise. Participants will explore how to redesign the budget process to improve communication, accountability, and decision-making across the organization. The session emphasizes output-based metrics, flexible budgeting approaches, benchmarking, and educating non-financial managers so budgets become a tool for managing performance, not just controlling spending.
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Can You Really Do That With AI? (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm. In just three short years, AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot have revolutionized how business professionals approach everyday tasks. In this session, you will learn how you can use AI to help you solve specific problems and work more efficiently, effectively, and accurately. Throughout this session, we will focus on real-world scenarios and how AI can help you realize better results in less time. This is a must-see session for all who want to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
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The Controllership Series - The Controller's Role in Pro Forma Financial Statements (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Pro forma statements are used by businesses to make decisions on planning and control, as well as for external reporting to owners, investors, and creditors. For example, giving financial estimates for a given period in a standardized manner is known as “presenting pro forma,” a Latin phrase that means “as a matter of form.” Pro forma statements can be helpful tools for business owners, investors, creditors, or decision-makers to analyze various scenarios of future events based on certain financial assumptions. It might aid in making predictions performance of the company. A pro forma income statement displays a firm’s anticipated sales and revenue. It also highlights anticipated fixed or variable operational expenses and, in the end, displays the potential profits and retained earnings for a future financial quarter. There are various types of pro-forma statements and methods to develop them. The responsibilities/competencies of the Financial Controller position (FC) has changed in recent years. However, the creation of pro forma financial statements is still a core part of their responsibility.
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Sarbanes-Oxley Update - Accounting Risk Assessment considerations - 20 years later (1.8 hours)
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Online
1.8 Credits
Member Price: $79
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It's been 20 years and counting since the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation was passed. In theory the legislative requirements outlined are still in place. Although the requirements haven't changed, time has changed and as a result, execution of the processes has most likely changed.
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How to Get a Better Return on Yellow Book and Single Audits - Avoiding the Most Misapplied Audit Concepts
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
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Yellow Book and Single Audit reporting entities have complex and unique financial statement audit, compliance and reporting issues. Deficiencies in these types of audit engagements are common. This course will reduce the likelihood of noncompliance with relevant professional and regulatory auditing and reporting standards. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Businesses Receiving Government Assistance (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Many for-profit entities receive government assistance or are required to have financial statement or compliance audits due to law or regulation. This course will discuss the requirements under Generally Accepted Auditing Standards relevant to for-profit entity audits. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Tactical Data Management – Turning Data into Actionable Information (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Organizations collect massive amounts of data, but far less information that actually improves decisions. This session focuses on how CFOs and CPAs can tactically manage data to generate insight, improve performance, and reduce risk. Participants will explore financial and non-financial data, data organization, and the role of analytics in understanding customers, operations, and employees. The session emphasizes clarity, simplicity, and storytelling so data supports better decisions rather than overwhelming stakeholders.
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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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The Controllership Series - The Financial Close Process (1.5 hours)
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Online
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $79
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A common challenge for the controller role is in closing the month-end and period-end books in preparation to issue financial statements. This duty requires precision, timing and efficiency. In today’s digital world, many organizations have access to financial accounting software that will assist with the steps in the financial close. However, even with this aid it is critical the accountant understand the various steps for the close process and how they inter-relate to other accounting processes. This course gives you an insight into the inter-relationships between many processes that impact the financial close. The closing process has traditionally been a slow one with many companies taking two weeks to close its subsidiary’s books and another two to three weeks to roll up and consolidated the results. With the introduction of technology much has been done to help accelerate that process with integrated enterprise resource planning systems and general ledger and consolidate software. Within this segment we will discuss the elements of the financial close and also important concepts to assist the controller in accelerating their close timeline. This includes addressing all functional areas of the close including payroll, invoicing, payables, inventory, cash, and the general ledger. We will also discuss important concepts of ensuring your financial close is accurate by discussing bank reconciliations, overhead allocations, bad debt reserves, unpaid wages and accruals for vacation time, account reconciliations, deprecation and overall financial statement review. Note: This course does not address utilizing technology in the financial close. Its focus is to understand the varied procedures involved in the financial close whether or not technology is utilized.
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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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Internal Control Fundamentals (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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AU-C Section 315 requires the auditor to gain an understanding of the entity and its environment and the entity's internal controls in order to design appropriate audit procedures. This course will review the key requirements of COSO which is one of the most widely used internal control frameworks. We'll also review the limitations of internal controls. Additionally, this course will introduce the risk assessment process and the various audit procedures to evaluate controls and to determine whether to test the operating effectiveness of controls. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Introduction to Not-for-Profit Accounting (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Not-for-profit organizations encounter distinct accounting complexities. This course provides an introduction to the financial statements and specialized accounting principles relevant to nonprofits. Attendees will explore key topics such as net assets, agency transactions, contributions, and endowments, focusing on the unique transactions and account balances that define not-for-profit accounting. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Cash Management: Strategies for Long-Term Success (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Many finance departments spend considerable time managing cash, particularly if the organization is highly leveraged or cash rich. Many opportunities exist to reduce your financing costs or increase short-term cash returns if you manage cash effectively. This session will cover a wide variety of day-to-day cash management tools.
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New PCAOB Quality Control Standard Overview (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Due to advances in technology, use of outside resources, and more, PCAOB released a new integrated, risk-based standard focused on accountability and continuous improvement for all PCAOB-registered firms. This course will provide an overview of the significant elements and foundational principles of this new standard.
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The Ethics Hour: Dealing With Conflicts of Interest: Members in Business and Industry, featuring Don Minges (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Often a simple situation may seem innocent, but it can lead to large complications quickly. Conflicts of interest are unavoidable and occur frequently for CPAs in business and industry. What will you do when they happen? Will you take the necessary steps to remain ethical and to protect your license? We will show you how in detail. You and I have a responsibility to our organizations and to the public to be ethical. If you do not follow the prescribed steps, as detailed in the Code of Professional Conduct, there will be problems. Do not forget your duty to the public.
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Preparing for & Conducting Discharge Meetings (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Over 80% of all employment-related lawsuits relate to termination. Every termination should be treated as a potential lawsuit. The facts supporting a leader's recommendation of discharge must be fully investigated. The discharge of an employee requires prior review and approval. Narrow self-interest, spite, or personal animosity must not play a part in making termination decisions. This course provides practical knowledge and scripts for handling discharges with good judgment such that personal and employer liability is avoided.
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The Controllership Series: The Controllers Role in Internal Controls (1.5 hours)
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Online
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $79
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This course in part of our series on the Controllership Role. Internal control is relevant to everyone in the workplace. It represents our moral responsibility to understand and comply with organization policies and procedures. It also provides the means to hold individuals accountable for their work. The controller is an impactful position that affects a company's processes including financial, compliance and operational. Controller functions vary across companies often following the size and complexity of the business and the industry. Smaller companies require more versatility for the controller Larger companies are more able to segregate job responsibilities across other employees. The controller should be knowledgeable of the various controls to create a control system that will appropriately safeguard company assets and processes. Internal controls are typically comprised of control activities such as authorization, documentation, reconciliation, security and segregation of duties.
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Preparation, Compilation and Review Engagements (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This course is an introduction to preparation, compilation, & review engagements. During this course, we will compare and contrast these different engagements by reviewing the procedures that should be performed, different reports, as well as the level of assurance specific to each type of engagement. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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The Single Audit from Beginning to End Update
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
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This course is an updated overview of the single audit of state and local governments and not-for-profit organizations under the OMB Unified Circular, as well as the applicable AICPA standards for compliance audits. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Group Audits: Who is Responsible for What? (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Financial statement audits often involve audits of components of a larger entity. This course will focus on the responsibilities for both the group auditor and component auditor, including implementation of SAS No. 149 relate to group audits. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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