Professional Development and Event Catalog
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S Corporation Essentials: Stock and Loan Basis Reporting
Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:00pm - 4:48pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This program addresses the critical issues and special opportunities facing S-corporations, with a focus on reporting shareholder basis and distributions. *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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Peeking Behind the Curtain: Exploring IRS Audit Technique Guides
Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:00pm - 4:49pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Have you ever considered a tax audit from the perspective of an IRS examiner? This session explains how you can use IRS Audit Technique Guides (ATGs) to enhance tax compliance. You will obtain a glimpse of the audit process from the viewpoint of an IRS agent as we explore insights that the IRS provides to its own examiners.
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Ethics: Giving Thanks - How to Master the Art of Gratitude
Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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How grateful are you? In this critically important webinar, we will explore exactly what gratitude is and why it is a crucial component of your work as a CPA. Even if you believe you're already a deeply grateful person, you'll still learn some new strategies for expressing gratitude effectively. Forbes Contributor Bruce Weinstein, The Ethics Guy, will show you how to use LinkedIn in a novel way to say "thank you." You'll also find better and worse ways of letting clients, team members, family members and friends know that you care about them. You'll understand why gratitude is a matter of ethics and not merely etiquette. Finally, you'll discover how to use questions about gratitude in job interviews and performance reviews. Why not hire and promote people who are not only knowledgeable and skilled but also grateful? You will be thankful for having taken this valuable webinar! 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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Mergers and Acquisitions: Tips and Speed Bumps to Avoid
Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Mergers, acquisitions and alliances have been and continue to be major avenues to organizational growth and increased competitive advantage. Despite the great initial promise of many mergers and alliances, few seem to yield the anticipated results. Numerous studies indicate that between 55% and 77% of mergers fail to accomplish their intended purpose. This course helps financial professionals, and their advisors identify, execute, and consummate mergers and acquisitions that create shareholder value while avoiding the many traps that can cause post-acquisition failure.
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Critical "Soft" Skills for CFOs and Controllers
Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:00pm - 6:38pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Accounting and finance managers and executives must demonstrate sound soft skills necessary for personal growth and organizational success. This course will provide insights into the most crtical personal skills critical for CFOs and Controllers - or those that want to be!
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The Ethics of Care in the Workplace
Wednesday, Dec. 16 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Ethics involve relationship to self, others, and the world in which we live. In the busyness of our world we often act out of habit without realizing that what we do truly matters. We matter! This session explores ethical values and principles as they apply to creating an Ethic of Care in the workplace with specific emphasis on compassion, accountability and respect. 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
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:02pm
Online
1.00 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
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:21pm
Online
1.50 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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PowerPoint: Tips and Tricks for Today's Accountant
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:46pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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PowerPoint is a widely available resource that is potentially underutilized by accountants because many accountants do not stray beyond Excel and Word in the Microsoft Office suite. You will learn how to create and edit a professional PowerPoint slide deck. This session places particular emphasis on efficiency tips and tricks that will allow you to develop creative, professional visual aids while minimizing time and effort. The course’s author will share personal insights he has cultivated throughout more than two decades of public speaking. Although the session will focus on creating and editing slides, we will illustrate best practices for presentation delivery. We will also explain how PowerPoint can be used for purposes other than delivering presentations.
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Yellow Book Ethics
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:46pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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The Yellow Book outlines essential ethical principles for governmental auditors, including serving the public interest, maintaining integrity, objectivity, and professional behavior. This course provides a focused review of these key concepts and their practical application in governmental auditing. Participants will also explore the independence standards, gaining insights on maintaining objectivity and avoiding conflicts of interest to ensure unbiased and professional audits.
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IFRS vs. US GAAP - Major Accounting Differences
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:48pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Whether a financial statement preparer or user is more familiar with IFRS or U.S. GAAP, it is important to be familiar with the important differences between the two financial reporting frameworks. This course will highlight some of the more significant differences between the standards.
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Leading Into the Future: Rethinking Work, Value and Leadership in Accounting
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:48pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
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The accounting profession is at a crossroads — not because of a new generation, but because the entire architecture of work is being rewritten. Smaller firms are feeling it most: recruiting has become harder, AI is changing client expectations overnight, and leadership succession looms large. In this fast-moving and practical session, global future-of-work strategist Steve Cadigan (LinkedIn’s first CHRO and author of Workquake) unpacks how small and mid-sized firms can reimagine how they attract, develop, and lead talent in a world where certainty is gone and adaptability is gold. Through real-world examples from progressive firms like Bookminders, Prestige Accounting, LedgerWise, Nova Accounting, and Insights CPAs, Steve shows how leaders are reshaping work models, leveraging AI as a time- creator, and making accounting a magnet for modern talent again.
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Ethics: What a CPA in Public Practice Needs to Know
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 5:55pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Accountants in public practice face ethical conflicts almost daily. This workshop offers an overview of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct by walking through the eleven basic rules of conduct while highlighting many of the most pertinent interpretations of those rules.
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Failure to Detect Fraud and the Reasons Why
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Online
2.00 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!
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Tax Depreciation: Review and Update
Wednesday, Dec. 16 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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A discussion of recent law changes that impact capitalization, depreciation, and disposition of assets. 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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Critical Technical Skills for CFOs and Controllers
Wednesday, Dec. 16 5:00pm - 8:37pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Accounting and finance managers and executives must demonstrate sound technical and analytical necessary for personal growth and organizational success. This course will provide insights into the most critical technical and analytical skills needed by CFOs and Controllers - or those that want to be!
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Roadmap to Ethical Decision Making
Wednesday, Dec. 16 10:00pm - 11:46pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Practitioners need to exercise caution to ensure they maintain independence as they assist their clients with reviews, audits, and compilation engagements. This course provides a roadmap to best practices and guidance provided by the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct and analyzes and applies it to actual scenario-based case studies, providing accounting professionals with ethical standards to integrate into their practices.
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Inventory Accounting GAAP, Software and Recognizing Variances
Thursday, Dec. 17 8:00am - 10:00am
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Many organizations struggle to keep budgets current in an ever-changing business climate. Twenty-first century performance metrics focus on determining what budgets should be rather than what they were in the past. Using performance metrics effectively reduces work, reduces politics, provides flexibility and substantially improves the performance management process. This session will show you powerful techniques to drive your organization’s performance.
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K2's Building Future-Ready Businesses
Thursday, Dec. 17 9:00am - 11:00am
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This practical program provides accounting professionals with actionable strategies for evaluating and implementing technology solutions that drive firm growth and efficiency. Participants will examine case studies showcasing different organizational approaches to hardware, software, cloud, and on-premises solutions while addressing the unique needs of remote workers and in-office teams. The program focuses on immediate implementation techniques rather than theoretical frameworks, ensuring attendees can apply concepts directly within their practice environments. Through examination of diverse organizational examples, participants will identify practical technology assessment methods and implementation approaches suited to various firm sizes and client service models. The program addresses common technology adoption challenges while providing concrete strategies for managing organizational change and measuring technology investment outcomes. Attendees will gain ready-to-use tools for building technology roadmaps that enhance both operational efficiency and client service delivery capabilities.
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Profitability Pricing: Boost your Bottom Line
Thursday, Dec. 17 9:00am - 11:00am
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Two seemingly similar products can have very different costs, yet many companies are completely oblivious to these differences causing them to lose money or competitive bids. When companies compete, those with good information win the “gravy” contracts and those with bad information lose money on “dog” jobs. Attend this session to gain insights on how to win bids for the best opportunities and give the money-losers to your competitors. Achieve your target profitability in the process.