Professional Development and Event Catalog
CPAxPACK: Unlimited Webinars - July
Online
0.00 Credits
Member Price: $599
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Get all of your CPE at one low price. Dive into our Unlimited Pack and start your journey of uninterrupted learning today at a more economical price than purchasing each webinar individually. With a huge selection of courses tailored to meet diverse learning needs, you can access our entire webinar catalog for only $599. Say goodbye to the stress of purchasing individual courses and hello to continuous learning and growth. How Does It Work ... The CPA Crossings Unlimited Pack gives you the opportunity to take unlimited scheduled webinars on our state-of-the-art learning platform. Once you purchase this pack, you will then be able to register for any course on our platform*, without any additional cost. Instructions will be sent to your email. Start saving and start learning today!
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CPAxPACK: Unlock Power BI with Comprehensive Data Analysis - July
Online
10.00 Credits
Member Price: $249
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*** This CPAx Pack includes four individual sessions for a total of 10 CPE. You receive significant savings when purchasing these webinars as a Pack. Each of the courses runs live once a month beginning May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026. Register for these scheduled courses as your schedule allows - at no extra cost to you. Once registered for this pack, log in instructions will be emailed to you separately for each individual course. *** Unlock the full potential of your data with our comprehensive Power BI course bundle, designed to take you from a beginner to an advanced data analyst. Get started with Power BI to familiarize yourself with the basics of setting up your workspace and learn how to clean, transform, and load data in Power BI. You will master the essential techniques for preparing your data for analysis. This bundle dives deeper into how to create measures in Power BI to help master the art of tracking and analyzing key performance indicators. Learn how to bring Power BI and Data Analysis together to integrate your skills to perform sophisticated data analysis and create compelling visualizations. Each course is meticulously crafted to provide you with practical knowledge and hands-on experience, ensuring you can confidently use Power BI to transform raw data into actionable insights. Join us and elevate your data analysis skills to new heights. Enroll today and become a Power BI expert!
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CPAxPACK: Unlocking AI Potential for Business Innovation - July
Online
10.00 Credits
Member Price: $249
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*** This CPAx Pack includes six individual sessions for a total of 10 CPE. You receive significant savings when purchasing these webinars as a Pack. Each of the courses runs live once a month beginning May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026. Register for these scheduled courses as your schedule allows - at no extra cost to you. Once registered for this pack, log in instructions will be emailed to you separately for each individual course. *** Transform your business with our comprehensive AI-powered course bundle, designed to elevate your firm's efficiency, profitability, and compliance. Discover how to implement an AI-enabled marketing strategy to attract and retain clients and explore the practical applications of generative AI to boost your firm's efficiency and profitability. Learn how to instantly transform ideas into revenue streams using AI, and master the essentials of AI privacy, security, and compliance to protect your business. Discover how to slim your team for maximum efficiency with cutting-edge technology and unlock the power of AI with Copilot in Excel to streamline your data analysis and reporting. Each course is meticulously crafted to provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to leverage AI for business innovation and success. Join us and take your firm to the next level with AI-driven strategies. Enroll today and unlock the transformative potential of AI for your business!
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Understanding the Tax Implications of Retirement Plan Distributions
9:00am - 9:57am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $29
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This session will address the complex rules of retirement distributions, review key provisions of the SECURE Act 2.0, and provide practical strategies of maximizing tax benefits for your client. **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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Revenue Recognition Topic 606 Contract with Customers - Identify the Contract Part 2
9:00am - 10:09am
Online
1.20 Credits
Member Price: $39
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This course is a continuation of discussion over Step One in the revenue recognition process of Identify the Contract. Specifically, this session delves further into the considerations surrounding contract modifications, change orders, unpriced change orders, cancelations, non-finalized changes and accounting treatment when a contract does not exist.
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GPT Builder for Accountants
9:00am - 11:00am
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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This course provides a concise overview of using ChatGPT's GPT Builder to create custom GPTs specifically tailored for accounting professionals. Learn how to leverage this powerful tool to streamline accounting workflows, enhance client services, automate routine tasks, and improve financial analysis capabilities through customized AI solutions designed for accounting-specific applications. custom versions of ChatGPT with added skills and knowledge for specific tasks or industries. This course is designed to guide accountants on how to leverage these enhanced ChatGPT functionalities to streamline financial workflows, analyze data, and engage in more dynamic, multi-modal interactions. 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 Representing a Client in an IRS Audit
9:00am - 12:00pm
Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
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Recent legislation in Congress has provided the IRS with substantially increased funding to bolster its human staff and purchase software that will allow the IRS to audit many more taxpayers in a more effective way. The IRS believes it can target the right kinds of taxpayers for audits so that it will not waste its time on audits that produce little, if any, revenue. The purpose of this program is to discuss the current state of IRS audits and the anticipated increases in the IRS's ability to audit wealthier taxpayers in an efficient way. The course will discuss the state of the IRS's current audits and where the IRS is headed with audits in the coming years. Tax practitioners should also be aware of the state of the IRS's efforts to target efficiencies so as to produce the most revenue.
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Surgent's Management Fundamentals
9:00am - 12:30pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
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In a recent Gallup study, 50% of respondents quit because of their manager, which makes your managers and supervisors your company's first line of defense against costly turnover. This program looks at management from a broad perspective and then drills down into key skills needed to manage effectively.
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2025 Accounting and Auditing Update for Small Businesses
9:00am - 1:00pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
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For many small businesses, the standards issued by the FASB may have little to no effect as they impact topics that do not reflect the type of transactions that these entities most frequently experience. This class will focus on the Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) that are most likely to impact small businesses with a focus on ASUs initiated by the Private Company Council (PCC). We'll then look at alternative reporting options to GAAP including FRF for SMEs and IFRS for SMEs for entities who don't necessarily need to prepare GAAP financial statements but want to use accrual accounting. Finally, we will transition to audit standards that small business auditors will need to implement. 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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Business Longevity: Stabilize, Strengthen, and Succeed
9:00am - 1:00pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
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Almost 50% of businesses that started five years ago are no longer in operation today. Controllers and CFOs can and must influence the longevity of their organization to improve their success rate. Jim will help you be aware and understand the answers to these issues: Can you describe the financial health of your company? Can you also explain what the financial health of your industry is? Do you know your Business Cycle compared to the industry business cycle? Do you have an executable plan? Do you know what the competitive, legal and technological landscape is currently, and for the future? Is your organization aligned and incentivize to be successful? Jim has developed his groundbreaking Business Longevity concept as a keynote and a workshop, and would be happy to speak to your organization on this topic. This session will focus on assessment (financial health, competitive environment), determination (effective business planning, including the future landscape), and execution (gettin’ it done!)
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K2's QuickBooks for Accountants
9:00am - 4:37pm
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $225
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The QuickBooks platform is a robust environment with features and capabilities that many users are unaware of or do not know how to utilize effectively. This course helps you get more out of QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online and resolve the issues that even experienced QuickBooks users struggle with, such as locking down prior periods. This program starts fast with a chapter covering the top issues accountants face with QuickBooks. The day continues with practical guidance and solutions designed to help accountants get the most out of QuickBooks for themselves or their clients. You will learn about issues, such as setting up a new company, configuring and customizing QuickBooks preferences, and enabling system security and password protection features. Also, you will learn how to lock down transactions in prior periods, the audit trail, customizing reports, exporting reports to Excel, and extending QuickBooks’ usefulness with tools such as the Fixed Asset Manager and Loan Manager.
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Financial and Tax Accounting for S Corporations and Partnerships
9:00am - 5:00pm
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $239
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This program compares and contrasts the financial and tax accounting differences of partnerships, LLCs, and S corporations, as well as discuss the tax accounting for these entities. 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 Perplexing Financial and Economic Issues for the CFO/Controller
9:00am - 5:00pm
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
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For CFOs and Controllers, the emergence of regulatory, fiscal, and monetary policy directly impacting their organizations' costs, competitiveness, and financing options, are causing them to understand the effect of shocks well outside of their control. The Dodd-Frank Act, health care reform, shortfalls in Social Security, unfunded pension liabilities, and deficit spending will all be explored relative to their impact on the CFO/Controller and your organization.
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The Best Individual Income Tax Update Course by Surgent
9:00am - 5:00pm
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $299
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This highly informative course comprehensively covers all the latest tax law developments. The focus is on individual taxation and discussion of the planning opportunities practitioners need to understand to help clients respond effectively. You will come away from the course with the up-to-date knowledge to educate your individual tax clients and implement tax-saving ideas that will serve their ever-evolving needs. This course is continually updated to reflect enacted legislation. Please Note: Due to content overlap, it is recommended that this course NOT be taken together with BFTU.
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Leveraging Marketing Automation for Accounting Firm Growth
9:30am - 10:30am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
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This course will provide an overview of 6 key areas of automation that accounting firms can leverage to effectively increase their lead generation and client retention efforts while reducing the burden on their time and budget. These areas include: 1. Social media 2. Content development. 3. Email marketing. 4. Text (SMS) marketing. 5. Chatbots and other interactive AI tools. 6. Drip marketing campaigns. Attendees will receive a practical guide to the technologies and tactics needed to improve marketing efforts with efficiency and ease! 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 Control - Testing for Operating Effectiveness
9:30am - 11:30am
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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Properly designed and effectively operating internal control over financial reporting is critical for preventing, or detecting and correcting, material misstatement. This course describes how to satisfy the audit requirements related to taking a control reliance strategy by testing the operating effectiveness of internal controls, while promoting an effective and efficient financial statement audit. 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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K2's OneDrive's Best Practices
10:00am - 10:56am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Although Windows incorporates the OneDrive app, you may not have configured it correctly for your specific needs. Using the OneDrive app and the related Cloud storage service to their fullest potential means you can access your files when and where you need them. Further, sharing your files and collaborating with others is easy when using OneDrive correctly. In this session, you will learn best practices for taking full advantage of OneDrive.
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K2's Saving Time With Electronic Forms
10:00am - 10:56am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Web portals, "low-code/no-code" data collection, and survey tools have changed how we collect data. Modern solutions like Microsoft 365 Forms, Zoho Survey, SurveyMonkey, Microsoft PowerApps, and legacy tools like Adobe Acrobat Forms allow users to create web forms and integrate the resulting data into business process workflows. This session introduces the range of available tools, demonstrates standard features, and shows how tools permit users to expose or conceal questions based on answers given earlier in the survey. Attend this session to learn how to use tools you already own to efficiently collect data from your team, customers, and vendors.
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Best-In-Class Recruiting Strategies
10:00am - 11:03am
Online
1.00 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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K2's Accounting Solutions And Add-Ons For Small Businesses
10:00am - 11:46am
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Working with a small business, you know that keeping the company's finances in order is critical to success. While numerous software programs and tools are available to help you do this, they vary substantially in many significant aspects. In addition to conventional options like QuickBooks and Sage 50, you can choose from Cloud-based tools such as Zoho Books, QuickBooks Online, Spire Systems, Xero, Accounting Suite, Accounting Power, and many more. In this session, we'll look at the best accounting tools for small businesses and discuss the benefits of each one. This session covers accounting solutions that should work for startups and companies with up to $10 million in annual revenue. We also cover various add-on solutions that can enhance the overall functionality of your accounting platform. Join us to learn your options for achieving your small business management financial goals.