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A WISP Away
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Who gets breached? The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and FTC Safeguards Rule What is a Written Information Security Plan (WISP) and policy contents Securing digital assets What to do with a breach and information security policy
Budget Mastery: Walkthroughs and Real World Calculations Towards Tying Budgets To Value
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
How to build a flexible budget model that works? What are the steps we can take to budget for economic and external factors beyond our control? How the right Chart of Accounts can simply your work? Budget and GAAP are not the same and why they are fine not to be Efficiently modeling payroll and benefits Identifying controllable and uncontrollable expense Using key variables to stress-test your budget
Risk Wrangling: Surviving the Modern Business Rodeo
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Risk is the common thread in an evolving landscape Risk assessment Responding to assessed risks Auditing standards Other insights from AICPA guidance Fraud considerations The role of analytics Financial reporting considerations Risk mitigation
Tax Procedure
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Filing a tax return IRS audit RS Appeals Collections and litigation at courts of original jurisdiction
Estimates, Contingencies and Going Concern
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Overview of accounting estimates and uncertainties Going concern accounting and auditing considerations SAS 132 requirements SAS 143 requirements Loss and gain contingencies Guarantees Credit losses Impact on financial reporting and auditing
Ethics without Fear for Accounting and Finance Professionals
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Case studies that clarify the challenges of making appropriate ethical decisions in the fast-paced modern organizational world A frank discussion of how to decide between a teaching moment rather than a termination moment when bad decisions are made. Applying the structure of understanding ethical dilemmas, and then applying the nine-step resolution process to arrive at a fair and consistent decision.
Exercise Your Ethics: Techniques to Improve Ethical Response
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Explore research for common answers to "what does ethics mean to you?" and examine whether those are valid.Identify common ethical barriers - reflecting the latest from the ACFE Report to the Nations.Discover ways to improve ethical response.Practice, using practical advice from leading thinkers in ethics.
Leadershift Ethics: Things Must Change!
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this course include:The litmus test for all of your decisions and actionsEthical principles when managing through changePressures that threaten ethical change managementCase studies of what can go sideways when ethics are not part of every stage of changeWinning strategies for ethical self-regulation
Rethinking Your Customers to Maximize Profitability: Identifying the Right Clients
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Who is your customer? What is solution-based planning for customer value? Recognizing internal customers (e.g., departments served by finance) Exploring profitability differences between customers with similar revenue Creating and sustaining a customer value pyramid
Surgent's Raising Financially Capable Children
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Discussion of the importance of financial education for the next generation Understanding a client’s financial values Determining a client’s financial literacy Helping clients develop a teaching roadmap Using knowledge to protect against entitlement Developing a knowledge base for the information, including a full list of recommended books on the topic and games for families to play Discussion of specific topics, including tips and tricks related to: Allowances Earning, work, and entrepreneurship Spending, saving, and investing Philanthropy Taxes Credit cards, crypto, and financial fraud
Surgent's Recent Changes in Workplace Regulations: Overtime, Non-compete Agreements, and Employee/Independent Contractor
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Final Rule - Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the FLSA: the multifactor “economic reality” test; What analysis guides whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under this final rule? Can a worker voluntarily waive employee status and choose to be classified as an independent contractor? Are any of the economic reality factors adopted in this rule more important than others when evaluating a worker’s employment status? How does the final rule explain “extent to which the work performed is an integral part of the employer’s business?” The Federal Trade Commission’s Decision on Non-compete Agreements: impact on new and existing non-competes; treatment and definitional terms for senior executives; definition of a non-compete clause; definition of a “worker” New Overtime Rules: exemptions from minimum wage and overtime pay requirements for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, and computer employees; increases in the standard level and the highly compensated employee total annual compensation threshold; new mechanism allowing for the timely and efficient updating of the salary and compensation thresholds Current status of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) rules
Surgent's Tax Research
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Tax code hierarchy Organization of an Internal Revenue Code section Special rules for IRC citation Citing other primary authority Private letter rulings Primary vs. secondary authority Secondary sources of authority Steps in the tax research process Research memoranda
Foundations of IT Audit for CPAs
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Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
IT Audit Fundamentals ITGCs, Risk Assessment Application Controls
Fraud Assessment for Small and Medium Sized Businesses
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The fraud triangle The fraud savvy model Symptoms of fraud Benford's Law The net worth method The vulnerability chart 10 steps for action today
Common Yellow Book & Single Audit Deficiencies
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Common peer review deficiencies in Yellow Book engagements Common peer review deficiencies in Single Audit engagements Yellow Book requirements (independence, CPE, reporting) Single Audit compliance requirements Internal controls over compliance Compliance testing and major program determination Root causes of audit deficiencies and prevention strategies
Operations Level Internal Control
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics covered in this course include:An overview of controls that drive proceduresConsiderations for procedural control developmentUnderstanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change
Finance and Innovation: Reinvent Your Organization and Dept.
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:What is innovation?The different forms of innovation, e.g., sustaining and disruptive.The five discovery skills needed to be innovative?The value of why we need to find ways to say, “Yes!” How to change your processes, rules and departments to be more innovative? Lessons learned from innovative businesses with examples.How does innovation happen and how to make innovation stick?The need to improvise and embrace broad experiences.
Form 1040 Individual Income Tax Prep
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $250
Overview of Form 1040 and filing requirements Filing status and dependent rules Income reporting, including wages, interest, and dividends Adjustments to income Standard vs itemized deductions Common individual tax credits Introduction to Schedule C and Schedule E Preparer responsibilities, due diligence, and Circular 230
Individual Tax Update: Key Considerations for 2026
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $250
Individual tax provisions compared for 2025 and 2026 reporting Recent legislative developments, cases and rulings impacting individual taxpayers ACA premium tax credit Passive activities - complete disposition 2027 inflation rates FBAR update Virtual currency and enforcement Property transactions Gross income and deductions
Mastering the Excel Lookup Functions
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this class include:A review of the various lookup functions, beyond VLOOKUPLearn which lookup works best for your situationHow to apply the many lookup functionsDiscover advanced lookup techniques like nested lookups, approximate matching, and handling errors effectivelyAn in-depth review of the following functions:VLOOKUP / HLOOKUPXLOOKUPMATCH / INDEXXMATCHINDIRECTFILTERSORT / SORTBYUNIQUEAn overview of some newer functions