CPE Convenience Store:
Access your CPE at a time and place that’s convenient for you

Are you looking for alternatives to typical classroom programs and time-saving CPE? Through partnerships with highly regarded CPE vendors, the WICPA can offer you and your staff time-and expense-saving alternatives to traditional forms of CPE. 

Try one of the opportunities listed here and save time and money while receiving quality and convenient CPE.

For a complete calendar of available webinars click here.
For more information, call the WICPA CPE Department at 800-772-6939. 

 

ACPEN	CPE Link
Bisk’s CPEasy Online	SmartPros
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer Business	Surgent McCoy, LLC
CPA Crossings	Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.

 

ACPEN

National experts, quality production, easy and reliable Internet delivery!

The Accounting Continuing Professional Education Network (ACPEN), is dedicated to bringing highly relevant, interactive, world-class CPE to every CPA in the most convenient and economical ways possible. ACPEN develops CPE content, manages the network, and ensures that the satellite and Internet technology is and stays at the cutting edge, for the benefit of CPAs.  

ACPEN has a specialized curriculum designed for members in industry and their corporate and business employers. Whether you need technology training, management, finance, leadership, ethics, business fraud or technical training for your specific industry, like banking, farm and ranch, nonprofit or governmental, the ACPEN Industry Institute™ will provide you with an ever-expanding choice of topics designed to keep you and your company ahead of the competitive curve.

Special! Order through June 30 and receive 20 percent off a webcast!  Use coupon code WICPA20.

NEW! The ACPEN Signature Series™ provides CPAs and financial and tax professionals who are looking for the level, complexity and production values that have always been the hallmark of ACPEN courses. There will be nine courses, beginning May 16. Each course will provide excellent CPE to help you succeed and provide a special level of content and production that distinguishes them from other courses.

When you register for any course in the ACPEN Signature Series™ you are guaranteed the following elements:

• The courses involve panels of four to as many as 19 presenters.
• The presenters include national experts and very experienced practitioners who travel to Dallas for production.
• The panels often include presenters from regulatory and standard- setting organizations such as the IRS, GASB, FASB and GAO.
• The courses take place at a world-class studio with advanced graphics and production techniques, supervised and coordinated with great care.

 
Make sure to watch for the 2012 ACPEN Signature Series and Banking Update Series!

Visit the ACPEN website.

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Bisk CPEasy

Value | Convenience | Experience

Don’t you wish everything was CPEasy?
Bisk CPEasy Online CPE Center allows accounting professionals to conveniently meet mandatory reporting requirements while gaining knowledge that will help you excel in your profession. CPEasy eliminates all of the hassles of traditional CPE fulfillment of buying books, keeping track of papers, inconvenient travel and mail delays by providing quality CPE programs that are easy to access, simple to use and available whenever and wherever you choose.

With CPEasy, you can register for your choice of courses and monthly reports, study at home or the office, take quizzes and track your CPE online. Available formats include online, audio, software, video, textbook and webcast. WICPA members receive a 10 percent discount.

NEW! A whole new class of mini-programs exclusively for CPAs on the Internet:

• Available in modules ranging from two to six credit hours.
• Perfect if you want or need to earn a relatively small amount of credit hours quickly and easily.
• Quizzes are graded and validated immediately, so even the tightest reporting deadlines can be met.

Visit Bisk CPEasy.

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CCH

a Wolters Kluwer Business  

Whether you’re looking to earn CPE credit or advance your staff’s professional development, CCH Learning Center is the best on-demand learning solution for you. CCH® has enlisted the help of some of the best authors in the industry to bring you a wide variety of comprehensive and up-to-date courses to help further your staff’s professional development and improve their tax, accounting and audit, and financial and estate planning skills.

CCH has an exclusive offer for WICPA members. More than 160 interactive CPE courses are available online for one low annual fee of only $310 per Learning Center seat*. WICPA members save $126. New courses and topics are added regularly.

 Topics covered include:

• Accounting and auditing 
• Sales and use tax, state taxation and tax return preparation
• U.S. international taxation
• Wealth management
• Corporate
  

* Please Note: "Seats" cannot be shared; each user needs his/her own CCH Learning Center subscription.

Visit CCH, a Wolters Kluwer Business.

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CPA Crossings 

Save money. Save time. Stay focused.
CPA Crossings, LLC provides you with access to an extensive catalog of live two-hour, Web-based CPE programs produced and delivered by CPA Crossings, LLC or by one of its approved webinar course developers, including K2 Enterprises, Federal Tax Workshops, Inc. and Executive Education, Inc.

The 2012 calendar consists of 50 topics specializing in the areas of technology, practice management, workflow automation, tax, ethics and accounting and auditing. Flexible scheduling provides a nice alternative to the traditional full-day educational format.

Webinars are designed to focus on specialized topics presented by knowledgeable professionals. The nature of our webinar model allows us to bring you up to speed on rapidly emerging topics in a timely manner. Each webinar qualifies for two hours of NASBA approved CPE. Group discounts are available for three or more participants, a perfect option for firm training to maximize savings.

New webinars will be available starting in June. Some highlights include:

• NEW webinars offered by Barry MacQuarrie on social networking and LinkedIn
• Seven NEW Excel topics
• Five NEW iPad topics
• Timely tax topics offered by Federal Taxation Workshops, Inc.
• Industry and management topics offered by Executive Education, Inc.

Visit the CPA Crossings CPE Center for a complete schedule of upcoming sessions.

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CPE Link 

Specialists in Web-based training!

CPE Link is a CPE provider committed to providing exceptional continuing professional education to accounting and finance professionals. Because CPE Link is specialized in Web-based training methods, they can offer the absolute easiest way for today's practitioners to meet all their mandatory CPE requirements and keep up with the latest industry changes.

CPE Link offers live webinars and self-study courses. Webinars qualify as live CPE for CPAs. Select programs also qualify for enrolled agents (EAs) and certified financial planners (CFPs).

Accounting firms can train their staff while maximizing their training budgets. CPE Link's Firm CPE Center allows firms to manage their CPE conveniently. Group pricing and the "Firm Advantage Pass" both provide ways to save significantly on CPE.

Visit CPE Link

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CPEThink

You’re busy, we understand. Get CPE credits anytime, anywhere, with a browser and internet connection.

CPEThink provides industry-leading online interactive, self-study, continuing professional education and professional development courses and exams for CPAs, licensed professionals, general practitioners and individuals. 100 percent money back guarantee.

Now offering FREE CPE with no obligation, no commitment, just FREE CPE! Check out short, one- to two-credit video-based interactive self-study courses.

Also check out the CPEThink Facebook page for a monthly discount at www.facebook.com/cpethink to be used from the WICPA website.

Visit CPEthink.com

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SmartPros Ltd.

SmartPros Ltd. is a leader in online and offline continuing education for professionals.

SmartPros offers a variety of subscriptions with a compelling collection of courses and subscriptions in accounting and auditing, taxation, management, personal development and more, with savings up to $120 on a subscription for WICPA members.

• SP Advantage: This skills-based subscription features hundreds of multi-media and text-based courses for accounting and finance practitioners. New courses are added regularly, and subscribers have access to a broad library of courses.  
• FMN Online: As the leading financial update CPE subscription program in the industry, FMN is utilized by more than half of Fortune 500 companies and other leading organizations. FMN produces four new courses per month, and subscribers have access to a complete archive of courses.  
• CPA Report Online: An annual online CPE subscription program designed for accountants in public practice, CPA Report Online (CPAR) delivers today's hottest topics and experts directly to your desktop. Each month six new programs are added, covering current topics in public accounting. Online courses feature streaming video, easy-to-follow course outlines, online transcripts and quizzes. 
• Government/Not-for-Profit CPA Report: Designed specifically for practitioners in the fields of governmental and not-for-profit accounting. Each quarter four new courses are added and subscribers have access to a full archive of courses.

Visit SmartPros

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Surgent McCoy, LLC 

Whatever your educational needs, Surgent McCoy has the quality and expertise to fulfill them.

Surgent McCoy is one of the nation's leading providers of continuing professional education (CPE) for CPAs. Surgent provides hundreds of webinars in 2012 as well as a large selection of self-study products in textbook, CD-ROM, DVD and downloadable formats.

Courses are not only geared toward CPAs in public accounting; in fact, many courses are structured for financial professionals in the corporate world as well. Course materials take you beyond your CPE needs by serving as a constant source of reference in your professional career.

The product line for 2012 consists of more than 300 unique courses offered as webinars and self-study courses. Purchase the Unlimited Webinar Package and take your pick of more than 130 live courses without leaving your computer. Each webinar features leading experts from Surgent McCoy speaking on the hottest topics affecting you today, and answering your critical questions

Enhance your career by enrolling in a professional designation program. Surgent offers Certified Specialist in Estate Planning (CSEP) or Certified Specialist in Retirement Planning (CSRP).

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Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.

Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. is a full-service, business-oriented law firm with offices in Milwaukee, Madison and Waukesha; Rockford, Ill.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Denver, Colo. With more than 200 lawyers, the firm serves clients throughout the United States and internationally with a combination of legal advice, industry understanding and superior client service.

Visit Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.'s webinar page