WICPA CPE & Special Event Catalog
Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
In today's data-driven world, spreadsheets serve as the backbone of business and personal productivity. However, creating complex and error-prone spreadsheets can lead to critical mistakes and inefficiencies. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to build robust spreadsheets, implementing a range of controls and safeguards to ensure data integrity, streamline processes and maximize accuracy. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
K2's What’s New With QuickBooks 26-27
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
The entire QuickBooks product family continues to evolve at a very rapid rate. Participate in this session to learn about the significant changes affecting QuickBooks Desktop, Online and Enterprise Solutions users.
It Is Legal, But Is It Really Ethical? featuring Rob Berry & Bob Mims
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
This discussion outlines situations where 'legal' & 'ethical' are not necessarily in alignment. How should you handle these issues? We will detail a better thought process to help you avoid 'crossing the line.'Note: This course qualifies to count toward the WICPA membership Ethics CPE requirement.
Yellow Book Ethics
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The Yellow Book outlines essential ethical principles for governmental auditors, including serving the public interest, maintaining integrity, objectivity & professional behavior. This course provides a focused review of these key concepts & their practical application in governmental auditing. Participants will also explore the independence standards, gaining insights on maintaining objectivity & avoiding conflicts of interest to ensure unbiased & professional audits.Note: This course qualifies to count toward the WICPA membership Ethics CPE requirement.
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.
Peeking Behind the Curtain: Exploring IRS Audit Technique Guides
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Have you ever considered a tax audit From the perspective of an IRS examiner? This session explains how you can use IRS Audit Technique Guides (ATGs) to enhance tax compliance. You will obtain a glimpse of the audit process From the viewpoint of an IRS agent as we explore insights that the IRS provides to its own examiners.
Integrate ChatGPT into Your Client Advisory Services-Updated
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Two of the hottest topics in the CPA profession today are CAS (client advisory services) and ChatGPT. This course will explain how to bring these two worlds together by integrating ChatGPT and other generative AI applications into your client advisory services. John Higgins, a leading advisor to the profession on ChatGPT and a seasoned client advisor on technology based solutions, will show you how you can position your firm and yourself as a "go to" advisor on how to embrace this technology in virtually any type of business. John will address how to use this technology as a research and writing assistant in your client services and how to advise your clients on this revolutionary technology and all benefits and "gotchas" that come with it. If you want to step up your advisory game, this course is a "must take." This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Invest in Your Mental Health & Avoid Burnout
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
For the ambitious female finance professional, working hard and going above and beyond are necessary for success. Sadly, taking time to care for themselves can be seen as counter-productive to meeting their career goals. Over ninety percent of women executives are feeling significantly higher levels of stress that they attribute to increased responsibilities and priorities outside the workplace compared to life before the pandemic. Burnout is a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress that causes exhaustion, negativity toward one's job and reduced professional efficacy. It has become so pervasive that it's now recognized as an occupational phenomenon by the World Health Organization. To reignite your enthusiasm at work, you don't necessarily need to find a new job or time for a spa day or bubble bath. You need concrete strategies to invest in your mental health without compromising your ability to rise to the next level in your career. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Tax Implications of Retirement Plan Distributions
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
This session will address the complex rules of retirement distributions, review key provisions of the SECURE Act 2.0 and provide practical strategies of maximizing tax benefits for your client. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
CalCPA Workplace Wellness 2026 - The Art of Meaningful Choices
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Online
1.00 Credits
Co-hosted by CalCPA President & CEO Denise LeDuc Froemming and CalCPA Health CEO Ron Lang, CalCPA's Workplace Wellness Series offer actionable strategies to support employee wellbeing, and are free to members. Explore how intentional sacrifice, smart prioritization, and realistic expectations can help you grow personally and professionally. This session provides tools like the Eisenhower Matrix and MoSCoW Method to help you focus on what truly matters and make choices that align with your long-term goals. Learn to navigate fear, protect your well-being, and build a support system that keeps you grounded while pursuing what's most important.
Looking at the AICPA’s “Non-authoritative Guidance” From an Ethics Perspective
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Most professional accountants are at least somewhat familiar with the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct, available at the AICPA's online ethics library. But the online ethics library also includes other information, such as non-authoritative case studies. This course provides an overview of: & commentary on: these instructive supplemental materials.Note: This course qualifies to count toward the WICPA membership Ethics CPE requirement.
Surgent's Current Issues in Accounting & Auditing: An Annual Update
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
Designed for accounting, auditing and attestation practitioners at all levels in public accounting and business and industry, this course provides a detailed review of the multitude of FASB and AICPA standards and reports issued over the past few years, including a discussion of the FASB's Stage 3 PIR report on ASC 606. It also provides an overview of recent PCAOB inspection report findings and SEC rulemaking activity. Through hands-on examples and illustrations, this course will help you apply the guidance in practice. We further discuss other important A&A practice matters to be aware of, including an update on the quality management standards and soon-to-be-effective requirements for engagement quality reviews.
Surgent's Individual & Financial-Planning Tax Camp
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $299
Each year brings its own set of tax planning challenges and this year is no exception. This course aims to arm tax planners with planning strategies and ideas that all clients, but in particular, wealthy clients, middle-income clients and closely held business owners need to consider right now to take advantage of present opportunities and plan for future tax advantages. Learn strategies that can really have an impact on client lives, while also bringing value to you and your firm. Please Note: 2026 returns are not covered in this course. They will be covered after their issuance, as part of our spring 2027 course release.
State Tax Nexus: Frequently Awkward Questions
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Award winning discussion leader Mark Hugh discusses both nexus basics & new developments in the dynamic, ever changing world of state income & sales tax nexus. This valuable course answers your frequently asked questions, reviews key factors in examining potential nexus consequences, takes a tour through the rules in states comprising 50% of the US & identifies free, online multistate resources. 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
Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction (199A): The Ins & Outs
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $300
The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA) was a major overhaul of our tax system that lowered the income tax rates for individual & corporate taxpayers & introduced the new 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction for sole proprietors & pass-through entities. The cornerstone of this course is the comprehensive discussion of the 20% QBI deduction final regulations under IRC 199A. 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 terri.storer@acpen.com
K2’s Getting Control Of Your OneDrive Account
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Many professionals use OneDrive but don't realize-or use-its full capabilities. Whether you have a business or personal account-or both-OneDrive offers features to enhance productivity & improve data security. Join this exclusive session to discover the advantages of using OneDrive for data storage & collaboration. In it, you will learn how to manage relevant risks & integrate OneDrive seamlessly into your daily workflows. Don't miss this chance to enhance your efficiency & security. Sign up now & unlock the full potential of OneDrive for you & your team.
Cost of Capital: What It Is & How to Use It
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Every business needs capital & capital has a cost. Providers of debt & equity demand a return & the combination is the cost of capital for the business. This session discusses how to calculate the cost of capital, how to use it to make superior business decisions every day & some common ways organizations misuse this number. Who should understand your organization's cost of capital? Even if you are not yet the CFO, you need to thoroughly understand the cost of capital & its use. The cost of capital allows managers to, Get the biggest bang for the buck. If you want to enhance your corporate finance skills, this session is for you.
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
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Online
1.60 Credits
Member Price: $79
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries, decision-making & everyday life at an unprecedented pace. While its potential for innovation is immense, AI also raises profound ethical challenges around fairness, accountability, transparency & human rights. Bias in algorithms, misuse of personal data, opaque decision-making & the displacement of human judgment underscore the urgent need for ethical frameworks to guide AI development & use.Note: This course qualifies to count toward the WICPA membership Ethics CPE requirement.
Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
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 & assessing the risks of material misstatement. This session will attempt to simplify the requirements using common sense examples & language.
IT Controls & SOC Reporting in Financial Audits
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Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
This course provides a practical understanding of IT controls & SOC reporting within financial audits. Participants will learn how to interpret SOC reports, evaluate control effectiveness & determine reliance strategies. Real-world examples will demonstrate how IT controls tie directly to relevant financial statement areas & alignment with Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs).
