CPE + Events Catalog
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Surgent's Schedules K-2 and K-3: Preparation of Forms (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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Many partnerships and S corporations are now required to complete the voluminous Schedules K-2 and K-3 to report foreign-related tax information. Updated for the 2024 tax year, this course is an essential guide for tax preparers on how to tackle the preparation of these forms. Understanding and preparing these forms requires a basic knowledge of various international tax topics, including sourcing of income, foreign tax credit income categories, effectively connected income, and fixed, determinable, annual, or periodical (FDAP). The course includes a brief discussion of key international tax concepts, a detailed walk-through of what information is required to be reported in different parts of the schedules, and practical advice from the field. The course also includes three comprehensive case studies on how the form should be completed for operating, real estate rental, and investment partnerships. Please note: Surgent also offers a companion course, "Schedules K-2 and K-3: Filing Requirements" (KFR2).
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2024 Federal Tax Update for Business with Doug Van Der Aa (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
This program will address the important provisions, rules and concepts related to business tax returns. **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.
FASB Update: What's New? April 2025 (1.5 hours)
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Online
1.5 Credits
Member Price: $49
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Stay current on FASB's activities, save time reading numerous email summaries, and receive summarized news in one session with CPE credit. This course delivers an Update of Accounting Standards Updates (ASU) released over the past three months (up to the course delivery date) and addresses proposed ASUs issued and the deadline for comments. The course also covers changes to the FASB Workplan.
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Beware the Tax Enforcers: How the US Prosecutes Tax Evaders (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
The Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, is responsible for enforcing the nation's tax laws fully, fairly, and consistently, through both criminal and civil litigation. This course will explore the role of the Tax Division in ensuring fair and uniform enforcement of tax laws, protecting the public, encouraging voluntary compliance with tax laws, and how their operations impact regulatory ethics. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Form 1120S – Preparation and Analysis (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
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This course provides an in-depth exploration of Form 1120S, the tax return form used by S corporations. Students will learn the intricacies of preparing and analyzing this form, including how to determine the taxable income of the S corporation, how to properly report and allocate income, deductions, and credits, and how to calculate the shareholder's basis in the S corporation. **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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2024 Business Tax Update with Steve Dilley (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
This course addresses the most recent legislative developments impacting business taxpayers, with a focus on important provisions, rules and concepts to apply when preparing client returns. **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.
2024 Topic 842: Understanding the New Lease Accounting Standard (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
It’s a whole new world for lessees under ASC topic 842. Soon nearly all leases will need to be disclosed as a liability on the balance sheet – from buildings right down to autos and copiers. Although the greatest impact will be on large entities, this will affect the financial statements of small and mid-size entities as well. This program will dive into the new standard on leases, effective dates, and address what you need to know now.
K2's 2023 Microsoft 365/Office 365 – All The Things You Need To Know [NT]
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $225
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Microsoft 365/Office 365 continues to grow and evolve, yet most utilize only a fraction of the tools available in their subscription. For example, powerful resources such as SharePoint Online and audio and video conferencing can change how your organization communicates and collaborates. In contrast, more personal apps such as Teams, Planner, Flow, and Sway allow individuals to work more efficiently and effectively in virtually all facets of their jobs. Further, security enhancements to Office 365 mean that your organization can take advantage of all these features in a highly secure environment. Isn’t it time you learned how to move beyond the traditional Microsoft 365/Office 365 applications such as Excel, Word, and Outlook and unleash all your subscription offers? Join us in this fast-paced and highly interactive seminar where you will learn what you need to know to succeed with Microsoft 365/Office 365.
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Senior Healthcare Strategies 2024 (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $159
Health-related decisions are encountered in every life stage. Making good choices can have a major impact on personal happiness and financial success. Managing the risk of a financially catastrophic illness requires thoughtful analysis of personal, tax and financial factors. Acquire a better understanding of medical insurance options for individuals transitioning to retirement, including long-term care insurance, Medicare, and Medigap plans.
Hybrid Remote Life: It's Not Going Anywhere 2024 (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $49
It's clear that remote work is here to stay. Are you doing everything you can to make remote work work for you? In this course, we'll explore what you can do to set your firm and your remote hires up for success at each step in the process from preparing to hire, the hiring process itself, onboarding and retaining your new team member. We will explore the key policies and procedures you should have in place, and the leadership approaches needed to engage and retain your remote or hybrid team members.
Fraud Busters: Controls to Prevent & Detect Fraud (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
This course investigates actual real-world fraud schemes and discusses what controls could have prevented the fraud from occurring, and what controls could detect and curtail the fraud scheme. The instructor speaks from experience, finding multiple frauds very early in her career leading to a career-long focus on fraud prevention and detection. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
K2's 2024 Small Business Accounting Shootout (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
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Small business accounting solutions have never been better, with many fantastic options. In this session, you will learn about the relative strengths of these platforms so you can make the right choice when selecting and implementing a solution.
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2024 Instant Audit? Just Add Risk Assessment (1 hour)
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
What would you do if you only had one workday to complete a financial statement audit? How would you optimize just a handful of hours? What would you test? More importantly, what would you minimize or eliminate? Although one day is unrealistically short, it illustrates how risk-based auditing can help auditors optimize professional effort. This course emphasizes the importance of risk assessment for enhancing both the effectiveness and efficiency of audit procedures.
Managing a Hybrid Workforce 2024 (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $49
Managing a hybrid workforce can be challenging, but successfully leading your hybrid or remote team will improve retention and productivity and open up many possibilities for growth and expansion. Where can your leadership evolve to be effective with your remote team?
Using Microsoft Teams to Host Virtual Meetings-Updated (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
One of the most important aspect of transforming your practice or business to a digital model is to know how to prioritize the applications and initiatives that you focus on and invest in. There is an abundance of "low hanging fruit" initiatives that can provide useful benefits quickly and economically. Using Microsoft Teams meeting app is a perfect example. Chances are pretty good that you are already investing in Microsoft 365 subscriptions for your office. This course will show you how to use the Microsoft 365 subscription ROI by fully utilizing the meeting app and eliminate the unnecessary cost of a separate third-party meeting app. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
2024 Guide to Depreciating & Expensing Business Assets (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $79
Following the ever-changing tax deprecation rules is not a game for the faint hearted! This course analyzes the current landscape of depreciating, capitalizing and disposing of business assets, with examples and illustrated case studies to enhance the CPAs understanding of the most current tax depreciation provisions. **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.
K2's 2023 Microsoft Teams (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $129
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Microsoft Teams is one of the most exciting personal and organizationally productivity tools to ever appear on the business landscape. With Teams, you can communicate and collaborate easily and securely with others, including colleagues outside your organization. Further, you can extend the already-robust functionality in Teams by incorporating add-in solutions with just a few clicks of the mouse. Unfortunately, despite Teams’ power and relatively simple interface, many organizations struggle with deploying and using Teams. In this session, you will learn how you can get up and running quickly in Teams so that you can take full advantage of this powerful tool. More specifically, you will learn how you can get started in Teams and critical decisions that will affect your deployment. Also, you will learn how to work in Teams, including how to take advantage of the chat, voice, and video call services and how to share documents securely with others. Moreover, you will learn how to extend your Teams platform to external organizations for improved communication and collaboration. Additionally, you will identify how you can add other applications into Teams and optimize Team's configuration for the best overall efficiency and security. If you are working with Teams or plan to do so, this is one CPE session you can’t afford to miss!
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Coaching the Next Generation of CPAs (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Attracting and retaining staff is critical to an organization's success, especially in the age of the millennial worker who will change jobs multiple times in the course of a career. This course will focus on best practices for nurturing the human element of your organization, especially millennial workers who comprise a growing percentage or the workforce. 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 The Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
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The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) were implemented to improve the lives of employees. FMLA allows eligible employees to take job-protected leave for their own serious health conditions or to care for sick family members. The ADA was intended to ensure "equality of opportunity" and "economic self-sufficiency" for individuals with disabilities. Yet both laws have proven challenging for employers. These laws are complex with rules that can be confusing and often misunderstood. This webinar is designed to provide information, guidelines, and examples of the key concepts under both laws.
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Forensic Accounting: Finding Hidden Treasure in Tax Returns (4 hours)
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Almost every business and individual has to file tax returns, which can be a great treasure trove of information for forensic accountants. Whether in a divorce, partnership dispute, recreating books and records, or bankruptcy proceeding, analyzing tax return information should be an initial step in uncovering income and assets. The IRS retains a large amount of information, both from taxpayers and 3rd parties who report financial transactions. This course will be your guide in gathering, analyzing, and evaluating tax return information, so that you have a full picture of the financial investigation. Your presenter is a 20 year veteran with IRS-Criminal Investigation, who used this information as a basis for his federal criminal investigations. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.