Professional Development and Event Catalog
The Big Beautiful Bill: Tax Reform 2025 and What's Ahead
1:00pm - 4:42pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
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What The Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) Means for You and Your Clients: Breaking Down Key Tax Provisions The “Big Beautiful Bill” is the most significant tax law package since the TCJA, and it’s now law. With dozens of TCJA provisions made permanent and plenty of new rules introduced, this session is packed with critical content for tax professionals. You’ll walk away understanding what’s changed, what’s new, and what to prepare for across individual, business, and estate taxation. Art Werner breaks down key topics like bonus depreciation, enhanced 199A deductions, Trump accounts, SALT cap changes, estate planning, charitable limits, 1099-K thresholds, and much more. He’ll also examine areas with future sunsets, business incentives, and international tax provisions that could impact clients at all income levels. *Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS-approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com
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The Hardest Ethical Dilemma! Why Revenge Will Always Backfire, featuring Bob Mims and Don Minges
2:00pm - 3:06pm
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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We believe in fairness. When others do wrong, and their action hurts us - the natural reaction is to fight back and seek retribution. Simple human nature and we are all human. We want fairness and want to fight back, but this is one of the toughest ethical dilemmas we all face. What should we do and what we do are not always the same. What if being nice, or specifically being a positive best version of yourself, makes you a more effective leader? Ethical leadership is effective leadership. That’s what Dr. Cohen, noted psychologist, transformational speaker, executive coach, and author of Be The Sun, Not The Salt, has been teaching organizations to do for years. Dr. Cohen’s work is based on scientific studies of human behavior broken down into simple, easily digestible pillars structured around the Heliotropic Effect. In this webcast we will discuss Dr. Cohen’s path to this work, what the Heliotropic Effect is, and how Be The Sun, Not The Salt is the perfect reminder to Do More of That every day.
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Creating Terrific Equity Compensation Plans: Beware of the Pitfalls
2:00pm - 3:45pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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In today’s business world, there is a war for talent and organizations with the best talent will win. We clearly need to motivate talented personnel. Equity compensation plans are useful to retain, reward and recruit. The GAAP and tax accounting for equity compensation plans is not static and decisions that you make during plan set-up can have major consequences to your organization’s bottom line and your management team’s personal tax situations. We will review nuances and details that impact proper accounting. Whether you are the CFO or CEO who has not been happy with prior equity compensation plans or the accountant who performs the intricate analysis and detailed accounting for these plans - this session will help you understand the issues and get it right the first time.
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Advanced Negotiations: Never Split the Difference
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Anytime someone says "I want," "I need," or "Will you," you are in a negotiation. For decades, the negotiation techniques described in Getting to Yes by Fisher and Ury of the Harvard Negotiations Project were the world's standard negotiation methods. These techniques involved collaborative methods for discovering how to make the "pie" bigger and then split it. More recent research on human psychology has revealed new methods that will allow you to do even better. Sometimes, you can't settle for getting half of what you want. Sometimes you have to have it all. This session explores negotiating's human side, to give you powerful people skills that will help you get more.
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence ("AI"): The Interaction of AI and Ethics, featuring Tracy Cooper, CPA and Don Minges, MBA
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Artificial Intelligence ("AI") can do and does amazing things, but there are myriad ethical issues involved with AI. We will discuss the many ethical questions that AI raises and how to prevent them from having an adverse impact. We must be more diligent and aware of the ethical issues. AI has severe ethical pitfalls that we should understand clearly. AI is here to stay and we must understand how to mitigate the ethical issues.
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Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English
4:00pm - 5:46pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English, is a 2 hour webcast highlighting the AICPA’s clarified risk assessment standards, along with a new Statement on Auditing Standard (SAS 145) related to understanding the entity, the entity’s environment, the entity’s internal controls, and assessing the risks of material misstatement. This session will attempt to simplify the requirements using common sense examples and language.
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Contract and Procurement Fraud
4:00pm - 6:01pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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This session will focus on the most common types of fraud in the procurement and contracting arena, with a focus on fraud in construction. The session will examine fraud vulnerabilities in the four key phases of the procurement process: Presolicitation. Negotiation. Performance. Closeout and Claims. Within each phase, “red flags” will be discussed. These are the indicia of possible fraud that managers should be alert for. Also, within each phase, the most common fraud schemes will be highlighted and discussed. Finally, the session will describe the generally accepted safeguards or controls that should be established to prevent the various fraud schemes that can occur. This part of the program will make extensive use of actual fraud case studies designed to demonstrate fraud risks and fraud detection strategies.
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SAS No. 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit
9:00am - 12:30pm
Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
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When performing a financial statement audit, auditors have always been responsible for the detection of anything that would cause a material misstatement of the financial statements whether caused by error of fraud. However, in the past the audit profession focused on material misstatements due to errors and more or less ignored the possibility of misstatements due to fraud. Now, SAS No. 122, AU 240 requires significant documentation as to what the auditor did in order to determine if there any material risk of a misstatement of the financial statements. This presentation is an overview of what the auditor is to document in there working papers on every financial audit as to the procedures they performed in order to determine the risk of a material misstatement. If a material risk is discovered, they are then required to document what they did in order to determine if the financial statements were misstated.
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Top Employment Tools to Protect Your Business and Recommend to Business Clients
10:00am - 11:04am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Overview of the most important labor and employment policies and practices that every business should have. The review will go over confidentiality agreements, arbitration agreements, restrictive covenants, training, and severance agreements, as well as compliance issues related to each of them.
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Let Go and Lead: The Crucial Art of Delegation
10:00am - 11:10am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $75
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If you want to take your business to the next level, your leaders need to lead. Too often, though, they're swamped with doing someone else's work. This interactive session will show you when it's time to delegate, what you should be delegating, and to whom you should be delegating it. Most important, you'll learn the secret to delegation: It's not about your time. It's about surrounding yourselves with the right people.
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Preparing to be a Forensic Accountant - Focus on Computer Forensics - Part 1
10:00am - 11:11am
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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This course is a continuation of our series on preparing to become a forensic accountant. Within this segment we focus on elements of computer forensics. This session is designed to delve into further investigative procedures used in computer forensics.
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International Cross Border Transactions
10:00am - 12:00pm
Online
2.20 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Please join us for an introductory course in international cross border transactions. We will discuss typical situations in which a cross-border transaction arises, and how a taxpayer can utilize the rules to potentially decrease an entities effective tax rate. Other issues, such as documentation and IRS audit risk will also be covered. These rules will be illustrated by a hypothetical US- Canada transaction. **Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to leighanne.conroy@acpen.com.
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Revenue Recognition in an Environment of Uncertainty
12:00pm - 1:47pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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Applying Topic 606 in an environment of uncertainty can be especially challenging. This course will discuss the proper application of the revenue recognition model when facts and circumstances are changing.
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Annual Update on the 2024 Revised Uniform Guidance And Time & Effort Reporting
12:00pm - 1:49pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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The Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) pertains to the management of Federal Financial Assistance for grants and cooperative agreements. The Biden Administration has performed a comprehensive update where the revised Uniform Guidance was released in April 2024. We will review all of the significant compliance and threshold changes. In addition, we will provide a brief presentation of the revised guidance as it pertains to Time and Effort reporting.
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International Tax Treaties
12:00pm - 1:52pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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This course presents an overview of tax treaties and how they are used in structuring transactions and determining the tax impact of cross-border transactions. It discusses the ordering rules for local laws versus treaty laws, and the purpose of the tax treaties in avoiding and eliminating double taxation to promote trade and investment. The participant will learn about planning opportunities to contemplate when structuring foreign operations. **Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com.
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Cost and Pricing Models: Boost Your Bottom Line
12:00pm - 2:00pm
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
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If sales increase, so should profits. Yet, the opposite result often leaves executive’s scratching their heads. When organizations work with inferior cost information, they make mistakes in four specific situations. Bad information causes sellers to overprice easy, high-volume work and under-price difficult, low-volume work. This session discusses how to use activity-based costing to build accurate costing models that consider far more than just the labor and materials necessary to provide goods and services.
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Providing Ethical Leadership: Learning to be the Best Version of Yourself
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Online
1.20 Credits
Member Price: $39
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This course will examine certain qualities a leader must exhibit to set an ethical tone from the top.
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Employment Law 101
2:00pm - 3:01pm
Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
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Review of the major employment laws governing the workplace, when they are triggered, and key compliance aspects under each law. This presentation is designed to give viewers enough information to issue spot when matters arise in the workplace.
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CTCPA Town Hall Meeting
9:00am - 10:00am
Online
1.00 Credits
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Join us for our monthly Town Hall Meetings – a must-attend event for anyone looking to stay ahead of the latest hot topics impacting the profession. This is your chance to hear directly from Executive Director & CEO Bonnie Stewart and engage with leading voices in the finance and accounting industry. Gain insights, ask questions, and connect with experts who are shaping the future of our field. Don’t miss this opportunity to be informed and involved! You must register to attend and receive CPE credit.
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Avoiding Legal Liability and Peer Review Deficiencies in Nonaudit Services, Including Bookkeeping and Preparing Financial Statements
9:00am - 1:00pm
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $129
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The majority of peer review deficiencies and malpractice claims result from nonaudit services. This course will provide best practices for avoiding legal liability and quality control concerns.