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Governmental Accounting Conference - A Virtual Event

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Online

12.00 Credits

Join us at the forefront of financial governance and accountability at the Governmental Accounting Conference, where professionals and experts come together to explore the latest developments in governmental accounting and auditing. This event is designed to provide up-to-date insights and answer questions attendees may have. Key Tracks:-Governmental Track-Auditing Track Session topics include: GASB Update, FASB Update, Fraud, Auditing Standards, Emerging Issues in Government Accounting, and more!   Check back soon for a full agenda.

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Governmental Accounting Conference Ethics - A Virtual Event

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Online

2.00 Credits

This course will provide you with 2 hours of ethics. Check back soon for more information!

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Employee Benefit Plans Conference - A Virtual Event

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Online

8.00 Credits

As an auditor, you need the most up-to-date information and tools to navigate your clients’ plan issues. At this specialized conference, hear the latest from the U.S.Department of Labor and other experts on current rules and regulations, and gain ideas for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of your audits.  

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School Audit Conference - A Virtual Event

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Online

8.00 Credits

School districts have highly specialized needs, and whether you serve from the inside of a district or as an external auditor, it is essential that your knowledge be on the cutting-edge.  This conference offers strategies to improve audit quality by offering practical tools and resources from state and local experts who know what’s going on in Missouri school districts. Featured topics include:• The Latest on GASB • Single Audit• And more!

The Social Media Blueprint for Accounting Firms

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Online

1.00 Credits

Social media - it's a buzzword, but is it beneficial for your firm's brand? And more importantly, your bottom line? This course focuses on the latter and takes a deep dive into which social media platforms are best for accounting firm lead generation, recruitment, client retention and more. Attendees will take away a practical framework and actionable tactics for integrating social media into your firm's overall marketing and communications strategy to help you grow your revenue without having to spend hours on social media or even be on it personally if you don't wish to! This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available for questions during the event.

Critical Thinking for Financial Professionals

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Online

1.00 Credits

What were they thinking? Why do business leaders sometimes make horrible decisions that severely damage themselves and their organizations? It is tempting to assume that poor choices must be due to someone's incompetence, inexperience, bad character, or low intelligence. Yet, when we make a mistake ourselves, we someone rationalize it as a choice other people would make under the same circumstances. This session will discuss the common decision-making errors people make and to help you avoid making these blunders yourself. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

How culture affects risks

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Online

1.00 Credits

Creating culture benefits your organization It's important to dedicate time and resources in: Evaluating the company's current culture Communicating the company's values Creating processes and risk avoidance activities for a healthy corporate culture Prioritizing and monitoring risks This webcast will help you evaluate your organization's current culture, and teach you strategies for building a thriving corporate culture.

Presentation Skills for Auditors

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Online

2.00 Credits

Are you comfortable giving presentations and feel good about your performance, or does the experience make you anxious and leave you feeling dissatisfied? In this session, learn how to let your best self shine during interactions with your staff, the auditee, and the governing board. Jim Comer is an accomplished speechwriter and presentations skill coach for executives. Leita Fanta has led over 1500 full-day seminars. Let Jim and Leita help you establish genuine and comfortable professional relationships and avoid mistakes that will detract from your message. *Qualifies for Yellowbook credit This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Surgent's Guide to the Topic 606 Revenue Recognition Model for All CPAs

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Online

4.00 Credits

While the effective date of Topic 606 has passed for companies, there will always be a need for a comprehensive review of the accounting related to revenue recognition, including recently issued changes to this guidance. Whether you are looking to improve your revenue recognition processes, benchmark your financial statement disclosures against your peer group, or assess the impact of changes to your revenue recognition processes due to COVID-19, this course will provide you with the information you need to apply Topic 606 in this current environment. This course will review the basic Topic 606 five-step model and provide specific implementation guidance and examples. It will cover the presentation and disclosure requirements for Topic 606, including the private company disclosure relief available under Topic 606, and provide disclosure examples. Lastly, the course will discuss best practices, lessons learned, and ways to improve the business process when recognizing revenue going forward. Even though implementing Topic 606 is behind us, it is still possible to improve the processes that drive revenue recognition and this course will assist you in doing that.

Money Laundering 101 for CPAs

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Online

4.00 Credits

CPAs spend most of their working lives reviewing bank statements and books and records of businesses. They are experts in understanding how to prepare financial statements according to GAAP. But would a CPA know a possible money laundering transaction if they saw it? Would about a money laundering business? Money laundering is a subject of many action and thriller movies, but rarely understood. This presentation will educate the CPA in understanding the basics of money laundering and how to identify money laundering. This presentation will help the CPA know the truth about money laundering, how to identify it, the statutes that define it, and the court cases that interpret it. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Surgent's Industry Accountant Toolkit

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Online

8.00 Credits

This course will explore some of the most essential tools for measuring financial and operational success, as well as improving results. Appendices will be provided to give students hands-on applicable materials that can be utilized after completion of the course.

A History of Investing and a Look Ahead

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Online

1.50 Credits

You hear it all the time. Financial products are becoming more complex. Diversification has changed. Our approach to investing has changed. What does all this mean? In this course, we will explore how investment theory has changed over time from Markowitz to Factor Investing. Using examples and practical applications, we will talk about how our modern notions of portfolio building have developed throughout history. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Basic Individual Taxation Course

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Online

2.00 Credits

Please join us for an introductory course on the fundamentals of preparing and filing an individual federal income tax return. We will cover topics such as what the federal income tax is and how it is computed. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Audit 201: Fraud Risk - Minimum Audit Requirements

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Online

2.00 Credits

Fraud Risk - Complying with Minimum Audit Requirements will highlight the audit procedures most effective in identifying, assessing and responding to fraud risk. The financial statement auditor's overall responsibility is to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial statements are materially misstated due to fraud or error. The difficulty is that there are inherent limitations related to detecting fraud due to deliberate schemes to conceal the intent to deceive, such as collusion. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Risk Management Techniques and Tools

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Online

2.00 Credits

17 tools and techniques for ERM Risk affects all areas of business - from hiring and onboarding to customer fulfillment and customer support. Assessing risks allows your executive team and others to make informed decisions. This webcast contains 17 tools and techniques to assess and manage risks in your organization. You will learn how to evaluate your organization's current systems and practices to identify and eliminate risks throughout your organization and apply a value stream perspective to your risk management.

Steps to Stop External Fraud

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Online

2.00 Credits

Until recently, a percentage of organizations discounted the risk related to external fraud attempts. Most were only concerned with protecting physical assets such as inventory or fixed assets. However, because of the many highly publicized corporate hacking events, such as the ones that affected the Colonial Pipeline and JBS Meats, more attention is being paid to external fraud risk of all types. In this session, we look at what is included in a definition of external fraud and then delve into specific control issues that can give rise to increased risk. We then discuss measures that organizations can employ to help reduce exposure to external attacks. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Surgent's What Practitioners Need to Know About Estate Planning and Administering a Client's Estate

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Online

3.00 Credits

Even though the current transfer tax exemption is extremely high to the point that few decedents have a federal estate tax liability, administering an estate is a burden for many family members. In many cases, the family members will look to their professional advisors for help in estate planning and administering an estate. The purpose of this program is to discuss those issues that practitioners with clients involved in estate planning administration need to know so as to be able to advise those clients. Lack of planning and preparedness in estate issues can cost the heirs time and money upon a decedent's death.

Practical Insights Gleaned from the AICPA's Code of Conduct

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Online

2.00 Credits

Reading the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct can be a daunting experience. This course unpacks the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct by exploring practical considerations for accounting professionals. We will examine selected provisions that are relevant to CPAs in both public accounting and industry. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The Omniverse and Metaverse for Accountants

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Online

2.00 Credits

This course provides a concise overview and non-technical explanation of the Omniverse and Metaverse - a shared virtual space that integrates various virtual, augmented, and actual realities. While futurists have been predicting and describing this concept for decades, interest and investment in this platform have recently exploded. Facebook has changed its very name to Meta - as in Metaverse - to reflect its pivot from a social media company to a virtual space company. Other tech companies, big and small, have announced ambitious plans to enable people to access digital environments and experiences through different devices. While sometimes perceived as science fiction, the metaverse is no entertainment gimmick. A growing consensus is that it will be the successor to the mobile Internet, and fundamentally transform the Internet, and perhaps even reality itself. You'll walk away with a foundational understanding of how the metaverse is transforming the modern business world, and how accountants can position themselves for success in this emerging economic digital dimension. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Let Go and Lead: The Crucial Art of Delegation

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Online

1.00 Credits

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.