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Creating an Ethical Work Environment

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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K2's OneDrive's Best Practices

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 3:00pm - 3:56pm

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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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Topic 842: FASB's Lease Accounting Standard Update

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 3:00pm - 4:54pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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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.

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Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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In today's data-driven world, spreadsheets serve as the backbone of business and personal productivity. However, creating complex and error-prone spreadsheets can lead to critical mistakes and inefficiencies. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to build robust spreadsheets, implementing a range of controls and safeguards to ensure data integrity, streamline processes, and maximize accuracy. 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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Federal Tax Update for Individuals with Doug Van Der Aa

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 3:00pm - 7:00pm

Online

4.00 Credits

Member Price: $129

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This program will address recent legislation, rulings and developments affecting individual taxpayers and provide practitioners with a comprehensive update for the upcoming tax season. **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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How to Build a Custom AI Chatbot and GPT in Plain English

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 3:30pm - 5:30pm

Online

2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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Participants will learn to create customized AI chatbots that can enhance client interaction and internal operations-all without coding experience. This course provides a concise overview of specialized, task-oriented AI chatbots and GPT builders, focusing on how these technologies are revolutionizing professional workflows. Through hands-on exploration of platforms like AgentGPT, Claude Projects, Gemini Gems, and NotebookLM, participants will learn to design, deploy, and manage custom AI assistants tailored to their specific needs. The course emphasizes creating advanced AI apps that can understand context and solve complex problems autonomously. 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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How to Audit Inventory

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 4:00pm - 6:00pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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Inventory observations are often a right of passage for audit staff. This course will cover the basics of auditing inventory, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to inventory. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff should perform, and also walk through how to conduct a physical inventory observation. 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 The Best Kept Secrets Of Microsoft 365

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 4:30pm - 6:16pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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Many organizations have implemented Microsoft 365/Office 365 at a basic level, but few have truly explored the breadth and depth of tools included with their subscriptions. Some less commonly known apps help you manage shared email boxes, create and use web forms, schedule appointments, trade shifts, create real-time closed captions, and translate presentations. Attend this session and learn more about the hidden features in Microsoft 365 that you can use to level up your productivity.

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K2's The ABCs of Automation With Microsoft's Power Platform

Tuesday, Mar. 31
 5:00pm - 6:45pm

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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Automation and standardization are two of the keys to productivity, but most people who are not programmers are unsure where to start. Microsoft’s Power Platform is a comprehensive platform for creating automated workflows, integrations, and data-driven reports. Components include Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, and Power Virtual Agents. Attend this session to learn about this platform and how everyone can use its low-code, no-code environment to solve process challenges.

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SAS 145: Modern Risk-Based Auditing

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 10:48am

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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This program provides in-depth coverage of SAS 145, a major standard that helps auditors enhance risk assessment procedures through improved techniques for identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement. This session is essential for CPAs that perform audits. The discussion will also be insightful for auditees and other professionals who want to maintain awareness of current auditing guidance.

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CPAs and Addictions: Finding Hope and Healing

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 11:00am

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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Substance abuse and mental health issues among CPAs has become of great concern among many state boards and the AICPA in recent years. This program will cover the factors that push CPAs to unhealthy behaviors, the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse, and possible options in addressing the situation.  We will also discuss steps that friends and family can take to support their struggling CPA find hope and healing.

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Understanding the New Forms K-2 and K-3

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 11:00am

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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Schedules K-2 and K-3 are promulgated by the IRS in order to standardize the reporting of foreign-related tax information for pass-through entities. Even pass-through entities that have no foreign activities, investments, or partners may have a reporting requirement. Schedules K-2 and K-3 for reporting partners' income, deductions, and credits from foreign activity are now required for passthrough returns (Form 1065, 1120-S and 8858). This requirement starts with returns with a tax year that ends in 2021. This course discusses each part of these schedules and explain these new reporting obligations in detail. 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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Avoiding Peer Review Deficiencies and Professional Liability in Public Accounting

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 1:00pm

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4.00 Credits

Member Price: $129

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Peer review deficiencies and professional liability claims result from both audit and nonaudit services. This course will provide best practices for avoiding legal liability and quality control concerns for a wide variety of professional services offered by public accountants.

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Tax Season Update for Individuals with Steve Dilley

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 1:00pm

Online

4.00 Credits

Member Price: $149

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K2's QuickBooks for Accountants

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 4:37pm

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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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Walter Haig's Personal Financial Health Checkup

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:00am - 5:00pm

Online

8.00 Credits

Member Price: $239

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This course has significantly changed for the better the lives of a significant number of practitioners and their clients. Participants will learn a step-by-step process for performing an annual personal financial health checkup for themselves, family members, employers, and, if in the practice of accounting, their clients. This course is loaded with practical aids to enable CPAs to help individuals get a "great" financial health checkup result! This course will enable practitioners to add a huge value to their tax preparation services. 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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Tech It to the Next Level: Slim Your Team for Max Efficiency

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:30am - 10:30am

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1.00 Credits

Member Price: $55

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Ready to slim down your team and maximize efficiency without sacrificing quality? This session breaks down how to leverage tech and automation to fill workflow gaps, build a strong tech stack, and connect tools seamlessly. Learn how one proven tech stack replaced more than half a traditional team while improving client satisfaction and reducing overhead. Walk away with practical steps to streamline operations, automate repetitive tasks, and focus your resources on what really matters. Attendees will gain practical insights into streamlining operations, automating repetitive tasks, and focusing resources on high-value activities. The session also includes an exclusive look at a proven tech stack used to replace over half a traditional team, offering actionable steps to create a leaner, tech-driven, scalable firm. Perfect for firm owners ready to rethink staffing, reduce overhead, and embrace the future of accounting efficiency. 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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Hot Topics Accounting Update

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:30am - 11:30am

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $89

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Money Laundering 101 for CPAs

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 9:30am - 1:30pm

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4.00 Credits

Member Price: $149

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CPAs spend most of their working lives reviewing bank statements and books and records of businesses. They are experts in understanding how to prepare financial statements according to GAAP. But would a CPA know a possible money laundering transaction if they saw it? Would they know about a money laundering business? Money laundering is a subject of many action and thriller movies, but rarely understood. This presentation will educate the CPA in understanding the basics of money laundering and how to identify money laundering. This presentation will help the CPA know the truth about money laundering, how to identify it, the statutes that define it, and the court cases that interpret it. 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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IFRS Update

Wednesday, Apr. 1
 10:00am - 11:46am

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2.00 Credits

Member Price: $79

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Companies reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) continue to face a steady flow of new standards and interpretations. The resulting changes range from significant amendments of fundamental principles to some minor changes from the annual improvements process. The changes will affect different areas of accounting, such as recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure.  It can be time-consuming and confusing to keep up-to-date on the resulting impact on financial statements and disclosures. This course will provide an executive summary of recent IFRS updates with current and upcoming effective dates.  

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