CPE & Event Calendar

Auditors identify and assess the risks of a material misstatement by understanding the entity and its environment. Privately-owned companies present unique challenges. We'll examine issues such as: Do identifiable controls exist? Do owners/managers promote compliance with company policies? Do owners/managers document controls and communicate them to staff? Are these controls observable? Can they be tested for operating effectiveness? Do owners/managers monitor employee performance and evaluate the controls in place?

This course will provide information on Post-Separation Accounting and Reimbursements.

This course will discuss the Separate Property Subject to Community Claims and what to do with Passive Income.

In this course, you will g ain insight from CPAs, attorneys and judges as they share critical information impacting your family law practice. You'll hear about the latest developments, legislation, and trends in family law disputes and dissolutions.

This course explains the k ey principles of Tracing, Characterization and Apportionment of Investment Accounts.

Robotic process automation (RPA) possesses several features that may give rise to similar but also new adoption effects (both benefits and challenges) relative to other information technology (IT) implementations. This study adds to the accounting and emerging technologies literature by examining the beginning-to-end process through which RPA is implemented in the accounting function. We adopt an exploratory and case-centered research methodology based on a mature RPA implementation in an accounting setting. We further corroborate it with interviews with subject matter experts and compare it with another case study of an early-stage RPA implementation. We identify five themes related to RPA adoption in accounting functions: workforce, IT governance, privacy and security, system sustainability, and the measurement of RPA success. We'll also present key takeaways that may support effective RPA adoption in accounting.

Robotic process automation (RPA) provides organizations numerous benefits in achieving efficiency and effectiveness, but not without risks. Without proper management, the risks posed by RPA may outweigh its intended advantages. RPA risk management has received little attention in prior accounting research and practice. We'll discuss risks and control considerations important to achieving the return on RPA investment and maintaining the integrity of the automated processes, substantiated by interviews with RPA and risk professionals. Our interviewees suggest that RPA risk management provides incremental value in addition to risk management of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, that the skillset needed for RPA risk management may be missing among risk professionals, and that existing risk and control frameworks must evolve for RPA risk management.

The intricacies of setting up and terminating an S corporation in this course are detailed and taxation is discussed. This entity's numerous advantages and disadvantages are identified to help practitioners determine whether the S corporation is most suitable for their clients. Eligible domestic corporations can avoid double taxation by electing to be treated as an S corporation under the rules of Subchapter S. Subchapter S provides an optional method of corporate taxation and allows small business corporations to elect unusual tax treatment. The S corporation is taxed like a partnership, but in other respects, S corporations are taxed like C corporations.

Business expenses are the costs of carrying on a trade or business, and they are usually deductible if the business is operated to make a profit. This mini-course reviews various expenses that businesses may deduct and the requirements that must be met for those expenses to qualify for deduction. Furthermore, practitioners can use this as a guide to determine which of their clients' taxes are deductible as business expenses.

How can you help your clients protect their assets? What is the best way for your client to "go bankrupt"? How can you help your client avoid the tax trap when going through a divorce? This course addresses all of these and many other critical legal issues for the tax practitioner in a quick and effective potpourri of legal topics and their tax impact. The emphasis is on the tax consequences of common legal issues in today's litigious society. A generous sampling of key areas is examined and explored from the Americans with Disabilities Act to Social Security taxes. Tax practitioners will be quickly surprised to find how often the "tax tail" can wag the legal dog.

Examine the bases of accounting available to small and medium-sized privately-owned businesses, including the AICPA's Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Medium-Sized Entities (FRF for SMEs). You'll review the cash and tax bases of accounting and other special-purpose frameworks. The features, benefits and risks of each framework will be covered, and guidance for professional judgments. This course, taken with the 4-hour Preparing Financial Statements for Clients (PRFS), meets the 8-hour accounting CPE requirement for accountants who prepare financial statements but perform no audits, reviews or compilations.

This course is designed to survey selected "hot" topics having a direct impact on the property owner and investor. The emphasis is on problem areas where the unwary beginner and expert alike can be trapped. You will learn to identify dangers involving installment sales, imputed interest, exchanging, equity participation, condemnation, passive loss rules, and transactions with foreign investors.

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 these risks. This course is ideal for CPAs that provide accounting services to start-ups and small businesses in industry or as a practitioner performing preparations, compilations or reviews.

The wine industry is facing serious market challenges due to rising material costs and shortages. This course will explore these issues from a CFO's perspective, looking at the current market trends and how they are impacting wineries' bottom line. It will also discuss potential strategies to help wineries navigate through this difficult period of financial uncertainty.

The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act ("TCJA") was approved by Congress on December 20, 2017, and signed by President Trump on December 22, 2017. The Act impacts virtually every individual and business in a way not seen in over 30 years. With most provisions effective 2018 and later, it lowers the individual and corporate tax rates, repeals numerous tax credits and deductions, enhances the child tax credit, boosts business expensing, and impacts the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by effectively repealing the individual mandate. This course is an overview providing reference to selected individual, education, business, retirement, insurance, international and estate tax provisions enacted or indexed for inflation by the TCJA. The resulting major tax changes carry special meaning to the tax practitioner and return preparer. The course is intended to be a resource for tax professionals and staff alike to gain easy access to the most important major changes enacted by TCJA.

Seniors face issues that complicate return preparation and planning. When to apply for social security? How is it taxed? What if they continue to work? Will an increased standard deduction affect charitable planning? Will downsizing affect interest and property tax deductions and payments? How to help children or grandchildren pay for a home or a college education?? We'll explore these questions and more.

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was enacted into law in 2021. The CTA mandates that millions of entities report their beneficial ownership information (BOI) to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The requirement is for all domestic and foreign entities to file, unless they meet specific exclusions. While these filing requirements are not a part of a typical service engagement, your clients will likely have entities subject to these requirements and they may look to you for advice on how to comply, so it's important to understand the requirements and be prepared to make your clients aware. For entities already in place as of Dec. 23,2023, they must file their reports by Jan. 1, 2025. For new entities starting after Dec. 31, 2023, the reporting must be filed in 30 days. It's important to note that failure to file will have monetary and potential criminal penalties.

This course integrates federal taxation with retirement planning. The course will examine tax and savings strategies related to determining retirement income needs, wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax-economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial aspects of retirement. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, the course projects the accountant into the world of retirement planning.

Test the treacherous (and shark infested) waters of tax, bankruptcy and financial problems. This course will teach participants how to apply, implement, and evaluate the strategic tax aspects of bankruptcy, property settlements, debt cancellation, and foreclosure. Current perspectives on asset protection, repossession, and bad debts are examined with an emphasis on planning considerations. The cancellation of indebtedness income inclusion rules are examined in the context of debt forgiveness and property foreclosure. Emphasis is given to the exceptions from income inclusion contained in 108. The tax treatment of property repossession under 1038 is explored with detail given to the calculation of gain and received property basis. Finally, eldercare and estate planning are reviewed and detailed.

This course explores many tax issues that arise from filing for bankruptcy. Also addressed are asset protection for the tax practitioner and medical costs covered under 213. There is an examination of property settlements and other transfers incident to divorce. A tax surprise for many taxpayers is the taxability of debt cancellation and repossessing property sold on the installment method can also be taxable. Finally, practitioners are brought up-to-date information on tax issues affecting estate planning and business issues.