CPE Catalog & Events
Is Activity-Based Costing the Right Tool for Your Organization?
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
ABC versus traditional costing First-stage allocation Determining predetermined overhead rates Second-stage allocation Activity-based reporting Activity-based management
Current Fraud Trends - Nonprofit and Government Entities
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Best practices for fraud prevention and detection Common fraud schemes in nonprofit and government entities including cash misappropriation, payroll fraud, vendor fraud, falsified billings, improper use of credit cards or purchase cards, the redirection of cash and non-cash contributions, personal use of assets, the redirection of grant benefits, other grant related fraud, travel and expense reporting fraud
The Controllership Series - Addressing Budgeting Uncertainty
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $59
Accounting Finance
The Controllership Series - Addressing Cash Flow and Forecasting Uncertainty
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Online
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $79
Accounting Finance Cashflow
Data Analytics: Practical Insights for Today's Accountant
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Apply new effective tools in business processes Better understand how to use data analytics in public accounting engagements Identify popular software packages that may be useful for accomplishing data analytics
Real Estate Professionals: Passive Activity Rules
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Definition, pros and cons of being a real estate professional Integration of the real estate professional rules with reporting on Form 1040, Schedule E Real estate professionals and indirectly owned (partnerships, S corporations) entity's reporting on Form 1040 How "real estate business" is interpreted under the Section 199A rules and how it integrates with the passive activity rules
Maximizing the Tax Benefits of an Installment Sale
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $59
Installment sale treatment eligibility When to elect out of installment sale treatment Installment sales of business assets Installment sale default and the rules for personal property vs real property Depreciation recapture
Profitability Pricing: Boost your Bottom Line
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
Competitive bids Achieving target profitability
Take Command of your Time
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major subjects that will be covered in this course include:Identify time wasters and adopt strategies for eliminating themRecognize the variety of causes of procrastination and apply techniques to overcome themUse practical techniques for prioritizing workDelegation strategiesIncorporate wellness and stress management into your day in short incrementsUnderstand their energy cycles and use it to manage your scheduleLearn techniques to decrease stress in the moment (based on neuroscience)
Surgent's The Most Critical Challenges in Governmental Accounting Today
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
The implementation of GASB No. 101 on compensated absences The 2025 application of GASB No. 102 regarding certain risk disclosures GASB No. 103 addressing improvements to the financial reporting model Additional recently issued GASB standards and projects
Leading and Managing the Accounting Department
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
Accounting Leadership Management
Comprehensive Passive Activity Losses (PAL) 25-26
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Overview of the four loss limitation rules and how the PAL rules interact with the other limitations Definition of a PAL including a detailed review of the 7 determining factors contained in the Treasury Regulations with a review of several recent court decisions that interpret this regulation Impact of PAL rules on real estate ownership Learn the six Nonshelterable Passive Activity (NOPA) rules that act as anti-abuse rules to the PAL rules Discuss how the PAL rules impact tax credits Discuss tax elections and planning techniques associated with PALs
Not-for-Profit Organizations: Accounting Principles and Risk Management 2024
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Not-for-profit GAAP Expense allocation methodologies Risk management Accounting errors
Preparation, Compilations and Reviews?A Practical Workshop 25-26
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Preparation Compilations Reviews
Top 10 Things to Know About Estate Taxation & Planning 25-26
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
The Numbers: Exemptions, exclusions and discounts Portability and step-up in basis Asset valuation Deductions: Marital, charitable, transmission and administration Retirement plan assets, annuities and life insurance Trust funding and administration
A&A Update for Nonprofits and Single Audit (2025)
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $239
The major topics that will be covered in this course include: Current impacts of accounting and financial reporting on nonprofit entities Recently released FASB standards that impact nonprofit financial reporting the most Current issues and challenges involving Yellow Book financial statement audits Critical considerations when performing Single Audits under OMB Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards Important AICPA professional standard developments related to providing audit and nonaudit services to nonprofits
Documenting Your EBP Audit: What You Need to Know
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $349
Audit planning Risk assessment and control testing Documentation best practices for investments and notes receivable Key audit areas in the financial statements, such as contributions, benefit payments, and plan expense Participant data and participant accounts Initial audits, plan mergers, and other issues
Surgent's Assessing the Risk of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
The fraud landscape in the United States Fraud risk procedures as updated by recently issued standards Most likely fraud types found in small to mid-sized entities Internal controls to prevent and detect fraud What to do when fraud is identified or suspected Case studies based on recent frauds Cyber fraud schemes and how to prevent and detect them Analytics that can be used as fraud risk procedures Assessing the risk of grant fraud in a Single Audit
Surgent's Handbook for Mastering Basis, Distributions, and Loss Limitation Issues for S Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Applicable coverage of any basis considerations within any recent tax legislation Passthrough basis calculations required as attachments to certain individual returns Executor’s form for disclosing basis in certain distributed property; what about the basis of a property distribution from a trust? How §179 limitations affect basis and how tax-benefit rule is applied Basis implications of personal assets converted to business use How to calculate basis of inherited qualified and joint tenancy property Tax basis capital account reporting requirements S corporations: Beware of final IRS regulations regarding “open debt”; determine how to calculate basis; worksheets are included; understand the effect of stock basis and debt basis and IRS’s recent focus on “at-risk basis” for shareholders; recognize how AAA applies or doesn’t apply to S corporations; learn to apply the complex basis ordering rules and special elections that can have a big tax result; discuss loss limitation rules in depth; when you can have a taxable dividend in an S corporation; understand distributions of cash and property; understand the post-termination transition rules, and temporary post-termination rules for eligible corporations, which will be important for S corps returning to C corps LLCs and partnerships: Learn the detailed rules of §704 for preventing the shifting of tax consequences among partners or members; learn to calculate basis under §704 & for “at-risk” under §465; recognize how recourse, nonrecourse, and qualified nonrecourse debt can create significantly different tax results; learn the difference between basis and “at-risk basis”; review §754 step-up in basis rules; the economic effect equivalence test or “dumb-but-lucky” rule; learn to apply the complex rules of distribution of cash vs. property, and the basis treatment of charitable contributions and foreign taxes paid
The Single Audit from Beginning to End Update
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $275
Introduction Applicable AICPA standards Applicable OMB Circular Gathering information - determining the major programs Identifying risk – identifying the applicable compliance requirements Assessing risk – considering the internal controls over compliance requirements Designing procedures that are responsive to assessed risks – the tests of internal controls and compliance Evaluating single audit evidence