CPE & Event Calendar

Explore the latest challenges and solutions faced by the construction industry and the CPAs who work with them. Learn about the latest updates and emerging issues in accounting practices, as well as critical economic updates to be aware of. Gain the latest in industry knowledge from leading experts in the construction field.

This course will address the ethical and practical considerations related to assessing materiality in preparations, compilations and reviews and preparing financial statements when employed in the industry. This course fulfills the 4-hour ethics education requirement. Alternatively, it provides four hours of credit towards the accounting and auditing requirement.

A CPA's knowledge and experience can make a big difference in the business affairs of farmers and those in the agriculture industry. Learn how to resolve complex tax, audit and operational challenges. This on-demand recap of our 2022 conference will ensure you stay current on the year's most important regulatory, financial, economic, valuation and real estate issues facing your clients in farming.

Local and global economic trends and policies continue to impact the California real estate industry landscape. This course will help you navigate how real estate analysis affects taxes with confidence. Be ready to confidently make smart decisions for your business and your clients.

Local and global economic trends and policies continue to impact the California real estate industry landscape. To stay at the top of your professional game, you need to know what's in store and what information is necessary to protect your client's holdings. If you missed our 2022 Real Estate Conference, now you can hear all the sessions on your schedule! You can find out what is affecting this business sector and learn about the economic, tax and legal developments impacting property owners. Take the chance to get the latest information and updates from top experts in the field.

Local and global economic trends and policies continue to impact the California real estate industry landscape. To stay at the top of your professional game, you need to know what's in store and what information is necessary to protect your client's holdings. If you missed our 2022 Real Estate Conference , now you can hear all the sessions on your schedule! You can find out what is affecting this business sector and learn about the economic, tax and legal developments impacting property owners. Take the chance to get the latest information and updates from top experts in the field. Note: This course does not offer CPE credit. Purchase this course for the CPE version.

?CalCPA's annual conference brings together industry and public accounting experts to deliver timely updates surrounding the nonprofit market. Engage with speakers who lead sessions covering topics ranging from new and developing tax issues to effective controls and private endowments. You'll gain a renewed understanding of pertinent accounting, audit, legal, tax and regulatory updates relevant to this sector.

Using case problems and analyses of questions, explore the relationship between issues that face start-ups and small businesses and fraudulent financial reporting. We'll examine the associated risks of fraud and how to address this risk. This course is ideal for CPAs that provide accounting services to start-ups and small businesses, either in industry or as a practitioner performing preparations, compilations or reviews.

The ever-dynamic wine industry is a bouquet of complex flavors, including tax law, labor and accounting issues. Join us in-person on Dec. 1-2, for our 2022 Wine Industry Conference, and drink in all of the specialized information you need for this key California industry. You'll learn about critical changes facing the industry, as well as hear from industry experts.

Designed for accounting and auditing practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides an overview of recently issued AICPA auditing and attest standards that will be effective for December 31, 2022 audits and beyond. Next, the course will review ethics interpretations recently issued by the Professional Ethics Executive Committee and review the current status of the AICPA's proposed Statements on Quality Control Standards.

In addition to being experts on the nuts and bolts of accounting and auditing, experienced auditors must also be aware of the emerging trends in our industry, as well as those complex topics with which we don't need to deal on an everyday basis. In this session, we'll cover some of those emerging and challenging topics. First, we'll review technology hot trends and how they will likely impact your clients and how you will need to address them in your audit risk assessments and procedures. Next, as the FASB continues to implement more opportunities to value assets and liabilities at their fair value, we'll review the accounting definition of fair value and how it's determined. Lastly, we'll review two areas that use fair value concepts pervasively, accounting for business combinations and asset impairment. With a sound understanding of the basic accounting concepts related to these complex topics, auditors will be able to significantly enhance the level of services that they can provide to their clients. (Please Note: This module is part of Surgent's Audit Skills Training: Level 4.)

Designed for accounting and auditing practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides an overview of recent accounting matters including private company standard setting activities; a review of ASU No. 2016-02, the FASB's new lease accounting standard; hot topics related to ASC 606; and a review of ASC 326, the soon-to-be-effective guidance on credit losses.

Designed for accounting and attestation practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a comprehensive review of recent standard setting activities of the FASB and AICPA. In addition to providing a status update on implementation of Topic 842, Leases, this course will bring you up to date on FASB and AICPA standards issued over the past few years. The course also provides many hands-on examples and illustrations to help you apply the guidance in practice. In addition to a financial accounting update, the course will discuss what you will need to do differently as you adopt new audit standards 134-145 over the next few years, including a detailed review of the new audit requirements under SAS 145 for performing an audit risk assessment. The course will also cover the key changes accountants will need to implement as they adopt SSARS No. 25 on their upcoming review, compilation, and preparation engagements. Lastly, the course reviews key trends in audit quality and peer review, including frequent peer review findings and what you can do to avoid them. In summary, the course is your go-to source for all things A&A and will prepare you for your upcoming engagements throughout the rest of the year.

Designed for accounting and attestation practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a comprehensive review of recent standard setting activities of the FASB and AICPA. In addition to providing a status update on implementation of Topic 842, Leases, this course will bring you up to date on FASB and AICPA standards issued over the past few years. The course also provides many hands-on examples and illustrations to help you apply the guidance in practice. In addition to a financial accounting update, the course will discuss what you will need to do differently as you adopt new audit standards 134-145 over the next few years, including a detailed review of the new audit requirements under SAS 145 for performing an audit risk assessment. The course will also cover the key changes accountants will need to implement as they adopt SSARS No. 25 on their upcoming review, compilation, and preparation engagements. Lastly, the course reviews key trends in audit quality and peer review, including frequent peer review findings and what you can do to avoid them. In summary, the course is your go-to source for all things A&A and will prepare you for your upcoming engagements throughout the rest of the year.

Designed for accounting, audit, and attestation practitioners at all levels in both public accounting and business and industry, this course provides an overview of the recent pronouncements and guidance issued by the AICPA related to audit and attest standards, including a discussion of SAS 142, effective for 2022 audits, and SASs 143-145, effective for 2023 audits. The course also covers recent activity by the AICPA's Professional Ethics Executive Committee related to the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct, as well as proposed updates to the AICPA's quality management standards. Lastly, the course will provide an update on the status of the AICPA's enhancing engagement quality initiatives. The course is a one-stop shop to get you up to speed on recently issued AICPA guidance.

One of the major transactions CPA clients are faced with is the purchase or disposition of a business. To help tax professionals advise those clients, this course offers a comprehensive analysis of the business and tax aspects of buying and selling a business. It is a practical guide to help practitioners and industry CPAs understand structuring techniques. All CPAs, including controllers and executives in industry, should understand how difficult the process of buying and selling a business has become.

One of the major transactions CPA clients are faced with is the purchase or disposition of a business. To help tax professionals advise those clients, this course offers a comprehensive analysis of the business and tax aspects of buying and selling a business. It is a practical guide to help practitioners and industry CPAs understand structuring techniques. All CPAs, including controllers and executives in industry, should understand how difficult the process of buying and selling a business has become.

One of the major transactions CPA clients are faced with is the purchase or disposition of a business. To help tax professionals advise those clients, this course offers a comprehensive analysis of the business and tax aspects of buying and selling a business. It is a practical guide to help practitioners and industry CPAs understand structuring techniques. All CPAs, including controllers and executives in industry, should understand how difficult the process of buying and selling a business has become.

Accounting and financial reporting for construction contractors may be the most difficult area to be in compliance with the various standards. Construction engagements are, in many instances, more "dangerous" than most lines of business due to the many users of the financial statements. In this course, we will discuss why construction accounting and financial reporting are so complex and discuss the relationship between the contractor and the surety, both from an underwriting and claims perspective. We will also explore what the surety looks for in order to maximize potential bond credit, and we will discuss key areas of tax compliance concentrating on those areas which make construction unique, including the impact of COVID-19 on the construction industry.

Many consider taxation of construction contractors to be the most complex area of the Internal Revenue Code. Probably no other industry has so many elections and considerations that need to be considered and made in order to reduce or defer amounts owed to the Internal Revenue Service. We will also discuss the impact of COVID-19 on construction taxation. This is a critical presentation "tailor-made" for CPAs who either work for or represent construction contractors.