WICPA CPE & Special Event Catalog
Staff Retention Keep the Best People
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Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $109
The COVID pandemic changed the way many people worked, yet others have had remote teams for decades & little changed. Many organizations trying to bring people back to the office have experienced significant turnover. Some practices have changed forever while some principles will always remain the same. Keeping your people happy equals keeping your best people. Learn the changes you should make now & the things you should do forever!
Financial Planning: Auto & Homeowners Insurance
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
While many financial services professionals advise their clients on tax, investment and life insurance issues, far fewer venture to help in the area of property and casualty insurance. Auto and homeowners policies are mandatory products that everyone generally needs - yet they are also complex products. This complexity raises questions in clients' minds: Are all my belongings covered under my policy? Do I have to adjust my policy if I want to let my neighbor borrow my car? Do I need an additional policy if I want to work as a rideshare driver? And will my premium go up when I move? In this course, we will cover the fundamentals of auto and homeowners' policies. We will touch on these questions, explore basic coverages and offer some guidance on what practitioners should cover with their clients in this area, so you can offer guidance and give them the peace of mind they need. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Section 199A Compliance: Rules & Reporting After OBBA
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Section 199A compliance has evolved after OBBA -- & so have the risks of getting it wrong. From revised definitions of qualified business income to updated reporting obligations, practitioners must navigate nuanced guidance affecting partnerships, S corporations & sole proprietorships. Walk away with practical tools, compliance checklists & calculation frameworks you can apply immediately.
Drive Results With Metrics
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Many organizations struggle to keep budgets current in an ever-changing business climate. Twenty-first century performance metrics focus on determining what budgets should be rather than what they were in the past. Using performance metrics effectively reduces work, reduces politics, provides flexibility & substantially improves the performance management process. This session will show you powerful techniques to drive your organization's performance.
Surgent's Introduction to Required Minimum Distributions
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $119
Required minimum distributions (RMDs) must be taken from certain tax-deferred retirement accounts, starting when the account owner reaches their applicable age. The RMD rules are complex and must be simplified to help ensure clients understand them. Accounting and finance professionals must understand the basics of RMDs for IRAs and employer plan accounts so as to help IRA owners, plan participants and beneficiaries meet their RMD obligations and avoid penalties that apply to RMDs not taken by their applicable deadline. Accounting and finance professionals should also be able to demonstrate tax-efficient solutions for RMDs. This course will walk accounting and finance professionals through the fundamental concepts and rules that apply to RMDs, demonstrate how to calculate RMDs and explain how to correct RMD errors. It can be taken by anyone, including those without any experience working with RMDs. The course will include cases to promote understanding of the rules.
Viewing A&A Through the Eyes of a Tax Practitioner
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This session offers insight for tax practitioners beyond merely checking a box to satisfy accounting and auditing requirements for license renewal. We devote significant attention to extracting utility from financial statements to support decision needs of both external financial statement users and internal stakeholders. We explore best practices for cross-functional support within firms that perform tax, accounting solutions, financial statement and consulting services. We also highlight similarities and differences between U.S. GAAP and tax-basis accounting. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Yellow Book Ethics
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Government Auditing Standards (or Yellow Book) has a unique perspective on ethics and transparency due to accountability owed to taxpayers, oversight bodies and others. This course will discuss the foundational principles in the Yellow Book relevant to professional conduct on related engagements. 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.
Surgent's Fraud In Single Audits
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
With all the planning, procedures and reporting involved in a single audit, sometimes things can slip through the cracks. But what if the thing that slips through is fraud? Compiled from news releases, court records and the thrilling annals of the Federal Audit Clearinghouse, this course tells the tale of seven real-world frauds that seemingly dodged detection in the single audit process. Leveraging the incredible gift of hindsight, this course is designed to raise your awareness and sharpen your focus on the potential for fraud in single audits!
Surgent's Gaining a Competitive Advantage: Critical Skills for CFOs & Controllers
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $159
All organizations are looking for ways to gain an advantage over the competition. This practical and interactive session will present a toolkit of ideas to help CFOs, controllers and finance professionals better position their organizations for the future. We know change is occurring at an exponential rate and that has proven to be the case in all areas of finance, management and leadership over the past year. The course deals with these new issues and will continue to be updated as necessary throughout the year. This year, we will take a special interest in the opportunities and threats of AI for the finance professional. Become the "financial hero" of your organization and make a positive impact on the bottom line.
Building a Better Budget in a Time of Uncertainty
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Most financial leaders would agree that budgeting is easy when business and the economy are stable. When revenues and expenses are expected to remain the same, the process becomes merely an exercise in carrying over what was done before to the current year. However, what happens when we are not sure about how the market will react to our product? What happens when the competitive landscape changes? In this course, we will discuss budgeting techniques and considerations when business lacks stability. Through a combination of theory and real-world examples, we will explore how to build flexibility into our budget - so that it can inform and drive decision-making when we don't quite know what is ahead. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Let's Play The 90 Day Money Game!
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The key to building a long-lasting relationship with your clients is to become more than just their accountant. Your clients already trust you with their tax & compliance work, but why not take it to the next level. By learning how to play the 90-day money game, you can help your clients elevate their income & take their earning power to the next level. Once you master the philosophy & practical tools for yourself, they can be easily shared with your own clients. Many clients silently suffer financially & are afraid to ask for help. By helping them play their own 90 day money game, you can support their financial wellbeing & turn good clients into GREAT ones! Here's how it works: Take your money challenges & turn them into money confidences by playing the 90-day money game. We will address three areas: INCOME: creating & working toward a Bold Money Goal IMPACT: expanding your reach in the world with clients & contacts INNER PEACE: turning the stress around income creation into a fun, peaceful experience. Reclaim your personal power around this important topic! Don't stay stuck in your story, waiting for the outside world to change before you claim your financial success. Action that is fueled by stress is inefficient & exhausting. Learn how to take action From inspiration. Discover a new way to think about money creation & nourish yourself in the process. Remember...You are you OWN economy. Learn how to create this reality now! The next 90 days will pass by one way or the other: let's decide to use that time in a clear & direct way to create a Money Breakthrough! Learn this winning philosophy for yourself & then use these principles & tools in your work with clients.
Finance & Innovation: Reinvent Your Department & Company 26-27
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Innovation drives economic growth. The key to reigniting the American economy is reigniting innovation. Innovation can be fostered, nurtured, encouraged and sustained by our companies and organizations. Innovation is not solely the purview of marketing, sales, service or production. Financial managers can create organizations that thrive on innovation or kill new ideas. They may choose to help develop and maintain practices that nurture innovation, or they can just maintain the status quo. Truly innovative finance professionals provide new, more meaningful and actionable information to all employees.
Internal & External Fraud: Underst&ing It & Working to Control It 26-27
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Regardless of size, all organizations must be aware of the risks associated with intentionally fraudulent acts. Fraud can be executed from within an organization, by external parties, or both. Therefore, a primary method to thwart fraud is understanding how and why it occurs. First, understand why internal and external intentional defalcations take place. Discuss the difficulty in understanding the motives driving those who undertake fraud. Finally, review measures organizations can implement to stop fraud and add security to the enterprise.
U.S. GAAP Disclosures for Non-Public Entities 26-27
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Disclosure has never been more critical. This course covers the most commonly encountered U.S. GAAP disclosure requirements. The course is an overview of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification and its more significant disclosure requirements applicable to non-public entities. In addition to U.S. GAAP, the course includes discussion of disclosure requirements for financial statements prepared using a special purpose framework, e.g., tax basis.
A&A Update for Nonprofits & Single Audit: 2026
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $239
This course provides a high-level overview of the most important accounting, financial reporting, compliance and audit issues facing nonprofit entities and their accountants. The focus is on explaining the basis behind major issues and trends in executive summary (yet practical) form, enabling professionals to understand the most important aspects of relevant standards and the basis for any potential changes on the horizon. 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 Advanced Individual Income Tax Return Issues
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
Most accounting and financial professionals have been preparing individual income tax returns for years and while many of the returns are easy, there are always a number of issues that come up in busy season of which experienced practitioners wish they had more knowledge. This course is designed to explore the tough tax issues for experienced practitioners and help them provide better planning strategies and results for their higher income clients.
Surgent's Annual Tax-Planning Guide for S Corporations, Partnerships & LLCs
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
As long as LLCs, partnerships and S corporations form the backbone of many CPAs' practices, in-depth knowledge of all tax aspects of these entities will be essential. The purpose of this practical course is to focus on planning issues in creating, operating and liquidating S corporations, partnerships and LLCs. This course is essential for CPAs in public accounting and industry who advise these entities or their investors.
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Legal, Tax & Health Care Issues
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
The employer-employee relationship strains both sides in uncertain times and businesses need CPAs, controllers and other advisors to provide understanding of the complex legal, tax and health care issues associated with all aspects of employment. This course provides in-depth coverage of this critical area. It will be updated and supplemented throughout the year to cover breaking developments.
Fraud & Embezzlement: Case Studies from the Trenches
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Governmental entities are the second largest victims of embezzlement. This seminar examines recent events involving theft of public money and circumstances that allowed the fraud to occur. Case studies we examine include the 2012 $54 million embezzlement from the City of Dixon by Rita Crundwell. The events that impacted the small Illinois town of 16,000 residents was the largest governmental fraud case to date and spanned an astonishing 20 years. This remarkable story inspired an award-winning documentary, "All the Queen's Horses." We will also examine factors that led to scandals involving the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, World Com, Collin Street Bakery and the Ohio American Cancer Society, among others. This course is ideal for CPAs, government finance personnel, all Internal Auditors, lawyers, governance professionals, accountants and human resource personnel. 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.
Al Capone to Cybercrime: The Journey of IRS Special Agents
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Since 1919, the Internal Revenue Service had a civil and criminal function in the United States tax system. Little do people know, the IRS has an elite criminal function that started with five United States Postal Inspectors. From its early days in taking down Al Capone to now solving cybercrimes, the IRS special agents are tasked with investigating tax fraud, money laundering and other white collar crimes. This presentation will show you the importance of this law enforcement function, the training, techniques, expertise and actions that cause them to be known as the "world's finest financial investigators." This presentation has been prepared by a 20 year veteran with the IRS-Criminal Investigation. The presenter investigated crimes and trained and mentored other special agents. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
