WICPA CPE & Special Event Catalog
How Fraud Can Affect Smaller Organizations
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Many small to medium sized companies do not properly address the risk that arises related to fraud because these organizations do not have the resources needed to mitigate this risk or because owners or those in top level management underestimate the scope of the issue. All organizations, regardless of size, must be aware of the risks associated with intentional fraudulent acts and know that a significant and effective fraud scheme could even create going concern issues for some entities. In this session, we delve into the reasons that fraud takes place. The material discusses the types of defalcations that are often executed against smaller entities and then explores measures that organizations can implement to help stop fraud activities and add security. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
SECURE Act 2.0: What You Need to Know
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Signed by President Biden on December 29, 2022 as part of the Consolidation Appropriations Act, this program provides an explanation of the Secure Act 2.0 provisions impacting individuals & business taxpayers. Learn what you need to know for this filing season & how to plan for future years for your clients. 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 & submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com.
Bears Will Be Bears: Fraudsters Too
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Bears are intelligent & motivated to find food. When I left some fried chicken in my Jeep while in Gatlinburg, a bear tore a hole in the top & ate the chicken & part of my Jeep. He was just a bear being a bear. I'm responsible because I left the chicken in the Jeep & gave him the opportunity. Similarly, people are intelligent & motivated to survive. If we give them opportunity by not implementing good internal controls, they will take our assets. This session reviews the investigation & prosecution of the former director of a conference center who took advantage of lax internal controls of a joint-venture & stole thousands. She was just a fraudster being a fraudster.
Fraud Busters: Controls to Prevent & Detect Fraud
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This course investigates actual real-world fraud schemes and discusses what controls could have prevented the fraud from occurring and what controls could detect and curtail the fraud scheme. The instructor speaks from experience, finding multiple frauds very early in her career leading to a career-long focus on fraud prevention and detection. 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 Defending Firms: Email Fraud, Cloud Risks, Cyber Insurance & Remote Work Security
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $119
Cyber threats targeting accounting and finance professionals are growing more sophisticated, putting sensitive financial data at risk. This session explores the most pressing cybersecurity challenges accounting and finance professionals face today, including email fraud, phishing attacks, cloud security risks and securing remote work environments. It also addresses the role of cyber insurance. Through real-world case studies and practical strategies, participants will learn how to recognize and mitigate cyber threats, evaluate cyber insurance policies and implement security measures that protect their firms and clients. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to strengthen their cybersecurity posture and ensure compliance with evolving regulatory and industry standards.
Surgent's Improving Your Profits: Identifying Cost Cutting Opportunities
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Part of one's duty as a CPA working in industry is to safeguard the assets of the organization. Cost cutting is one way to preserve assets and maintain a company's competitive position in the industry. However, what keeps us from ridding our organizations of unnecessary costs? In this course, we will look at the factors that prevent our companies from being as streamlined as they could be. By using statistics and survey data, we will attempt to show how to better negotiate and navigate budgeting and contracting decisions. We will also discuss financial statement analysis techniques, benchmarking and cash flow management in an effort to better cut costs and maintain the long-run viability of an organization.
Surgent's Public Speaking & Presentation Skills
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Gerald Ford once said that "[n]othing in life is more important that the ability to communicate effectively." Public speaking remains a centuries-old skill that allows individuals to effectively communicate both at a personal and professional level. The benefits of good public speaking run long, whether it be the ability to persuade others, lead a team, or encourage critical thinking. This course is designed to refresh and refine speaking skills for professionals. Through this webinar, participants will gain a better understanding of the core skills of how to communicate effectively in groups — big or small. The webinar is intended to help those who already speak in public better improve their skills, while at the same time teaching more novice speakers how to approach a task that so many professionals dread — speaking in front of others.
Surgent's Top Business Tax Planning Strategies
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Business strategies for 2026 are based on important tax changes made in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). There are a number of important business tax changes that can be used to develop tax planning strategies that have great advantages for businesses and their owners. This program covers many important business tax changes and the implications for tax planning founded on them.
Money Laundering 101 for CPAs
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
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 they know 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.
Selected Ethics Topics 2025: 2026
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This course will help you to stay current on recent changes to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct, as well as keep you abreast of emerging trends in ethics standards and regulatory initiatives and their potential impact on your practice. We will also explore frequent practitioner ethics compliance challenges, including competence, due professional care, audit quality and independence. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Note: This course qualifies to count toward the WICPA membership Ethics CPE requirement.
New Corporate Transparency Act Developments & Proposed FinCen Reporting Requirements for Real Estate Sellers
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
U.S. Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imposed a new reporting requirement that went into effect on January 1, 2024. Millions of businesses may have to file a Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report. In a surprise turn of events, the Federal District Court From the Northern District of Alabama ruled on March 1, 2024 in National Small Business United v. Yellen ("NSB") that the CTA is unconstitutional. This course will discuss the CTA's provisions & the court's decision in NSB. Also covered will be future implications for business entities & steps to consider given the recent ruling. We will also discuss recent proposed rulemaking by FinCen with respect to nonfinanced purchases of residential real estate & gratuitous transfers so that businesses can prepare for any additional reporting burdens that might arise. 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 & submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com.
The Controllership Series: The Future Role of the Controller Part I
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Online
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $79
This is a two-part series that discuss new trends & concepts the financial controller should begin to execute in order to truly become a valued member of the senior leadership team. The rapid pace of the evolving technological landscape has promoted changes in how accountants & financial professionals focus attention on strategy & modernize their roles to leverage digital technology. There is increased demand for enhancing flexibility into finance cycles & initiating real-time reporting & insights. These are the core attributes that will assist in transforming the work that controllership function performs. Is the financial controllership prepared to meet future business demands? The IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) & Deloitte's Center for Controllership aimed to better understand the current state of controllership & expectations of future demands for controllers & accounting professionals. They conducted a survey in late 2022 & identified several trends. The survey takes a look at how prepared controllership is to meet future business demands. It also highlights some insights for leaders to consider that may increase their preparedness. It also identified areas of additional insight & questions to answer on the controllership transformation journey. In this segment one, we go through numerous concepts in detail & the remaining concepts will be covered in segment two.
Introduction to Not-for-Profit Accounting
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Not-for-profit organizations encounter distinct accounting complexities. This course provides an introduction to the financial statements & specialized accounting principles relevant to nonprofits. Attendees will explore key topics such as net assets, agency transactions, contributions & endowments, focusing on the unique transactions & account balances that define not-for-profit accounting.
Basic Individual Taxation Course
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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.
Public Procurement Basics: Protecting the People's Money
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Procurement is a critical component of successful government operations. While there are challenges in public procurement, there are a number of guidelines and requirements that will help lead you to success. This course will offer guidance on how governments can meet complicated procurement needs and develop best practices that protect public and Federal funds. 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 Build an AI Agent With ChatGPT: A Hands-on Lab for Financial Professionals
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $119
This hands-on course introduces accountants, auditors and finance professionals to agentic AI by simulating autonomous behavior using the basic version of ChatGPT. Participants will use role-play, prompt engineering and guided interaction loops to create agents that simulate planning, decision-making and communication workflows. No coding or advanced access is required. Participants will practice designing task-specific prompts, simulating agent autonomy using flipped interaction patterns and evaluating agent output for risk and effectiveness. This course makes agentic AI accessible to all learners through practical, scenario-based exercises using tools they already have.
Managerial Accounting: Your Prescription for Better Decision Making
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
This session revisits useful, but potentially underutilized, managerial accounting techniques. You will appreciate a fresh look at concepts you may not have considered since your college days. We will illustrate practical ways you can immediately implement managerial accounting analysis in your professional endeavors.
Using ChatGPT with Excel
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
In this innovative course, participants will learn to combine the power of artificial intelligence with the functionality of Microsoft Excel. You will learn how to leverage ChatGPT, OpenAI's powerful language model, to improve your Excel skills and decrease the time it takes to build spreadsheets. The course will include a quick introduction to ChatGPT but the majority of the time will be spent using ChatGPT to create an Excel spreadsheet. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Businesses Receiving Government Assistance
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Many for-profit entities receive government assistance or are required to have financial statement or compliance audits due to law or regulation. This course will discuss the requirements under Generally Accepted Auditing Standards relevant to for-profit entity audits.
The Three Million Dollar Ribbon
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Two conmen used lies & falsified documents to convince the State of Tennessee to give them a $3,000,000 economic development grant to create 1,000 jobs by purchasing & rehabilitating a vacant factory in rural Tennessee. Instead, they spent most of the money on an extravagant lifestyle & invested over $1M in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) out of over $30,000,000 pursuant to a contract to provide the tarps for areas such as Puerto Rico, affected by hurricanes. This session provides a detailed case study of how the investigators accumulated, organized & analyzed hundreds of documents, identified the falsifications & misrepresentations, conducted multiple interviews & ultimately convicted the conmen. This case study provides multiple takeaways for detecting & investigating grant fraud, which is especially relevant in light of the numerous federal stimulus programs in recent years.
