CPE Catalog & Events
2025 Governmental GAAP Update: Navigating GASB Standards
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:New GASB standards:GASB 100, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections.GASB 101, Compensated Absences.Practical case studies.
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
Communication Miracles At Work and In Life - Part 1
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
1. Why people behave as they do, and how you can effectively motivate anyone to cooperate with you How to judge if your communication is effective in motivating someone How to get someone to really hear you How to communicate so that someone will happily do what you want 2. How to create trust and get people to like working with you The 3 most important keys for getting someone to feel rapport with you Why rapport is so important, and how to use it to profit in your work How to quickly solve problems with people once you have their rapport 3. How to handle difficult people Why some people are difficult to deal with, and what you can do about it How you can turn a difficult employee or customer into a powerful asset How to easily solve problems with people who are upset at you 4. Secret techniques that super-successful communicators use How Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are similar, and how you can tap into their "magic abilities" The three most important keys all successful communicators use
Measuring Audit Risks
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Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
The planning process – When it starts and when it ends Determining the audit objectives The importance of the nature, timing and extent of the audit process The importance of professional skepticism The preliminary engagement activities Documentation of audit risk Determining materiality
Tactics to Find Work Life Balance in a Complex World
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
The major topics covered in this class include:How to get more out of one's workHow to achieve greater balance between today's ever more demanding and complex demands of work without losing sight of what is important in daily routinesExample of how to develop and be challenged by your own personal bucket list
Be the Sun, Not the Salt, featuring Harry Cohen and John Daly
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $59
What is the Heliotropic Effect? Be the Six Sun Pearls. Today is a good day to do good Be the bright spot in the room Be your own sun Do the next right thing Pet peeves bite Knowing isn't doing
The Head and Heart of Ethics - Featuring Bob Mims and Don Minges
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $59
The difficult trade-offs in making choices. Functioning in the ‘gray’ areas. The value of trust. How lack of accountability can lead to ethical issues.
Ethical Situations - What to do When?, featuring Allison McLeod and Don Minges
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $59
Intentions versus results. Is using the ‘Threats Based Approach’ always the best? What is, “The clean hands rule,” and how does it apply to Ethics? Situations where Ethics is not black-and-white.
Awful Ethical Dilemmas - Bringing it to Life, featuring J. Michael Inzina and Don Minges
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $59
Following the letter of the Code versus following the spirit of the Code Preparing for conflicts of interest Document your analysis of the situations Five (5) case study examples
Benford's Law and Other Digital Analysis Techniques
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Online
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $109
Benford’s Law Digital Analysis Data analytics
Managing Your Money in Retirement
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Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
Social Security Retirement Asset allocation Fraud
Contract and Procurement Fraud
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Procurement phases Fraud schemes Fraud red flags Fraud control activities and safeguards
Drive Results with Metrics
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Performance Metrics Budgets
Fraud Risk Management
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Fraud risk management Fraud risk assessments Data analytics Fraud risk management tools
Social Security Basics and Strategies for Maximizing Benefits 25-26
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Social Security planning, benefit calculation, and beneficiaries Recent changes to "file and suspend" and "restricted application" strategies Increasing benefits for self-employed individuals Planning for surviving spouses Integrating retirement plan distribution strategies with Social Security claiming strategies Coordinating drawing Social Security benefits with the start of Medicare benefits, including a discussion of IRMAA
Build Better Budgets: Fundamental Techniques
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Advantages of budgetingThe role of budgetingMaster budgetingFlexible budgetingStandards and variancesCapital budgeting
FASB & AICPA Update for Tax Professionals (Highlights) 25-26
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Broadly applicable ASU effective in 2024 and beyond Significant recent SAS
Accounting and Tax Ethics: Standards, Issues, & Case Studies 25-26
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
AICPA Code of Professional Conduct Threats to compliance with Code of Ethics Updated Statement of Standards for Taxpayer Services (SSTS) Ethical challenges in selecting appropriate GAAP alternatives
Mastering the Art of Conflict: CPA Transformative Strategies
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Common conflicts CPAs faceThe impacts of having/not having crucial conversations Learn your conflict style and how to elevate your conflict capabilitiesIdentifying conflict triggersBest practices using an integrated approach from Crucial Conversations, Fierce Conversations, and Leading with Questions.Interviews from CPAs and real-life scenarios they faced and what crucial conversation approaches they used.
Real Estate Taxation 25-26
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
California property taxation updated in light of Proposition 19 passage Qualified business income deductions [IRC Sec. 199A] Opportunity zone deferral related to real estate [IRC Sec. 1400Z-2] Passive activities loss rules [IRC Sec. 469] Real estate professional rules [IRC Sec. 469(c)(7)] Interest expense deduction rules [IRC Sec. 163] Home sale exclusion [IRC Sec. 121] 1031 exchanges Estate planning and gifting with real estate