CPE + Events Catalog
2026-27 OSCPA-Select™ CPE - 2 catalog options:
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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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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.
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ProActive Response: Active Shooter Training - Recognize. Respond. Survive. (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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ProActive Response Group's Active Shooter Response Training course educates participants in current trends of active shooter incidents, how to recognize early warning signs of violence, appropriate actions to increase chances of survival in an active shooter event, and how to use basic medical equipment to save the lives of victims. *****(Warning: This video contains simulated graphic scenes that some viewers may find disturbing)*****
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GASB 96 –SBITA, GASB 94 P3, and GASB 87 Leases (Year 2) (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This is a 2 hour webcast that will focus on the similarities between all three of these GASB accounting standards that deal with contractual arrangements such as leases, Subscription-Based Information Technology Arrangements (SBITA) and P3s. Compare and contrast these standards as you prepare for implementation this year of GASB 94 and GASB 96, and review the implementation efforts of Leases in Year 2. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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Advanced Cost Accounting: Eliminate Calculation Distortions (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Organizations that use primitive costing methods make predictable mistakes, allocating too much cost to easy, high-volume "gravy" products and too little cost to difficult, low-volume "dog" jobs, putting an organization with inferior information at a significant competitive disadvantage. The secret to being the “smart competitor” is learning how to deal with overhead. This session will show you how to assign 16 key overhead categories. Whether you work in a wholesale, retail, healthcare, service or manufacturing business, you will find this session invaluable. Get your cost right, and you will be able to give the "dogs" to your competitors and keep the "gravy" for yourself.
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Better Business Writing: Improve Your Speed and Quality (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Technology has given us many new writing tools, but they may just allow an inexperienced novice to turn out poor communications more quickly. Whatever your expertise level, this webinar will help you take your writing skills to another level, saving your time and making it far more likely your reader will read and understand your message.
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Metrics Management – Selecting the Right KPIs (2 hours) [NT]
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Choosing the wrong metrics can create noise, confusion, and unintended behavior. This session helps CPAs and CFOs identify and select meaningful KPIs that align with strategy and are understood by users. Participants will learn how to balance financial and operational metrics, tailor KPIs to responsibility centers, and think like customers when designing performance measures. The session emphasizes simplicity, relevance, and usability over volume and complexity. Humorous videos will be incorporated to drive home some key points and keep things entertaining
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Navigating Mergers & Acquisitions with AI: The Future of Deals (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Mergers and acquisitions can be complex, risky, and filled with unexpected challenges—but they don’t have to be overwhelming. This course provides a clear and practical overview of the M&A process, helping professionals understand the critical stages of evaluating opportunities, structuring deals, conducting due diligence, and navigating post-transaction integration. Participants will learn practical techniques that help organizations avoid the common traps that derail many transactions while improving the likelihood of successful outcomes. The session also explores how emerging AI tools are beginning to enhance deal analysis, uncover deeper insights, and support better decision-making throughout the M&A process.
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Optimize Your Staff's Performance (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The same theory applies to departmental performance—the overall result is only as strong as its weakest contributor. Leave our interactive and entertaining session with insight for developing and sustaining the best team you can possibly assemble. The four elements in this process are (1) development, (2) leadership, (3) hiring and (4) environment. Discuss how to effectively use these elements in your creation of an outstanding organization. Discover the power of the 10 Attributes for Leadership Success and the negative impact of Leadership’s Fatal 13. Above all, learn how to combine these four elements as a successful catalyst for sustained high-quality output and results.
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Best-In-Class Recruiting Strategies (1 hour) [NT]
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $39
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With over 4.3 employees leaving their jobs as of early 2022, The Great Resignation presents a huge challenge for companies as they attract and retain talent. During this course, you'll learn practical strategies you can implement immediately to ensure you have the right tools in your toolbox to win the war on talent.
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How to Audit Prepaid Expenses (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Understanding how to effectively audit prepaid expenses is a key skill for audit staff. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals, including the applicable audit assertions and common risks and threats associated with the prepaid expense balance. Participants will learn how to perform substantive auditing procedures to ensure accuracy and reliability, with guidance on applying these techniques to real-world scenarios. Designed to enhance practical knowledge, this session equips auditors with the tools and confidence needed to navigate prepaid expense audits with proficiency. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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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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Beyond the Basics of SSARS and Nonattest Services: Are You Certain You Are in Compliance?
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $250
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Practitioners that provide non-audit services must strike the right balance between complying with relevant professional and regulatory standards, providing value-added client service, and mitigating litigation and other practice management risks. This course contains many case studies to reinforce best practices for managing the accounting, reporting, and performance issues associated with the attest services of compilations and reviews where reports are issued, as well as the SSARS preparation of financial statements service and other nonattest engagements. YELLOW BOOK: Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE based on your unique audited entity.
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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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Private Company Simplified GAAP Alternatives (2 hours)
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $89
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The FASB formed the Private Company Council to provide certain alternatives in U.S. GAAP that are only available to nonpublic business entities, with limited exceptions for certain nonprofits. This course will provide insight into when adopting the accounting and financial reporting alternatives would be to the advantage of private companies. 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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Taxation of Business Entities (2.5 hours)
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Online
2.5 Credits
Member Price: $99
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This course will introduce you the different types of business entities and the tax implications of contributions, distributions and earnings, among other topics. **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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IT Controls & SOC Reporting in Financial Audits (3 hours)
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Online
3.0 Credits
Member Price: $109
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This course provides a practical understanding of IT controls and SOC reporting within financial audits. Participants will learn how to interpret SOC reports, evaluate control effectiveness, and determine reliance strategies. Real-world examples will demonstrate how IT controls tie directly to relevant financial statement areas and alignment with Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs).
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Using Psychology Secrets to Love your life and Get More Done (4 hours) [NT]
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $149
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The new field of Positive Psychology offers many methods and ideas for helping people be happier, healthier, and better at what they do. Nowadays, the ability to be at your best and get clients to enjoy working with you is critical to growing your business or getting ahead. Studies show that happy people make $750,000 more over the course of their life than unhappy people, have half the number of sick days, and live 9 years longer. In this fun and fascinating seminar, you’ll learn how to not only be happier, but help your clients be happier in working with you.
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Performance Management - Hiring to Retiring (1.2 hours) [NT]
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Online
1.2 Credits
Member Price: $39
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How you onboard a new employee is critical in ensuring they understand your company culture and are immersed properly in your organization. On the flipside, in the event you are dealing with an employee termination, this too is critical in handling with care and sensitivity.