WICPA CPE & Special Event Catalog
Internal Controls Over Compliance versus Compliance
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
Accurately identifying and testing controls over compliance is critical, yet it remains a common deficiency highlighted in peer reviews. This course offers a comprehensive overview of internal controls over compliance, with a focus on their application to Single Audits. Participants will learn how to effectively align internal controls with specific compliance requirements. Additionally, we will address one of the most frequent findings in audits of governmental entities receiving federal grants: the misidentification of controls and the confusion between compliance and control processes. This course will help clarify the distinction, equipping you with the tools to enhance audit quality and ensure compliance effectiveness. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Internal Control Fundamentals
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
AU-C Section 315 requires the auditor to gain an understanding of the entity & its environment & the entity's internal controls in order to design appropriate audit procedures. This course will review the key requirements of COSO which is one of the most widely used internal control frameworks. We'll also review the limitations of internal controls. Additionally, this course will introduce the risk assessment process & the various audit procedures to evaluate controls & to determine whether to test the operating effectiveness of controls.
The Preparation of Form 709: Line-by-Line
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Gift taxation is a critical component of estate planning & Form 709 serves as the key reporting tool. This course provides a comprehensive line-by-line guide to preparing Form 709, ensuring accuracy & compliance. Participants will learn how to determine taxable gifts, apply exclusions & utilize available deductions. Special attention will be given to valuation techniques, gift-splitting & generation-skipping transfer tax (GSTT) considerations. Additionally, this course will examine any new legislative changes From the current administration & how they may impact gift tax planning & reporting. 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
Advanced ChatGPT for Accountants
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This course concisely explains the latest "see, hear, speak" multi-modal updates to ChatGPT and how they can be used in an accounting context. New features include vision processing, voice conversation, image generation, real-time Internet access, advanced data analysis, plugins and more. Discover how this technology can be used in mind-blowing ways to analyze financial data, optimize processes and solve problems in the accounting domain. Through the lens of ChatGPT, practitioners can explore innovative solutions, automate routine tasks and generate deeper insights and value to their clients and organizations in previously unimaginable workflows. You'll walk away with scores of advanced ChatGPT strategies and tips that can be immediately applied and deliver instant results to elevate the efficiency and effectiveness of your accounting projects and tasks. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Case Studies in Accounting Fraud 26-27
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
This course is designed to present the most common types of financial statement fraud and embezzlement, illustrated through real cases and situations. We'll distinguish financial reporting fraud from misappropriation of assets and highlight common schemes involving one or both types of fraud. We'll review high-profile cases and other real-world situations to emphasize the CPA's role and responsibility. This course will also touch on updated GAAS requirements. Get ready to examine the methods used to perpetrate and disguise schemes, learn how fraud can be detected by both management and auditors and explore the CPA's role in preventing and detecting both types of fraud.
Preparation, Compilation & Review Services 26-27
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
SSARS 21 significantly changed the way CPA services are being offered. There is still confusion about CPA responsibilities and procedures. The course will discuss differences between bookkeeping, preparation and compilation engagements and how they differ. It will also discuss financial statement frameworks and how they influence the engagement as well as analytical procedures in review engagements.
Optimize Your Staff's Performance
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The same theory applies to departmental performance-- the overall result is only as strong as its weakest contributor. Leave our interactive & entertaining session with insight for developing & sustaining the best team you can possibly assemble. The four elements in this process are (1) development, (2) leadership, (3) hiring & (4) environment. Discuss how to effectively use these elements in your creation of an outstanding organization. Discover the power of the 10 Attributes for Leadership Success & the negative impact of Leadership's Fatal 13. Above all, learn how to combine these four elements as a successful catalyst for sustained high-quality output & results.
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.
CalCPA Express Federal Tax Update January 2027
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Fast, focused, and essential. Get the federal tax updates you need for filing season in one efficient course. With the increasing complexity and ever-changing nature of tax laws and issues, today's accountant needs a one-day fast-paced update course focusing on the hottest Federal income tax topics affecting individuals, businesses and their owners with an emphasis of newly enacted income tax legislation. This fast-paced session is a comprehensive review of newly enacted income tax legislation, issuance of income tax regulations, court cases, IRS notices, revenue procedures and private letter rulings affecting individuals and businesses. Each participant will receive a comprehensive manual with the hottest tax topics including Pat Garverick's Quick Reference Chart.
Self-Rental Real Estate: Passive Activity & Section 199A
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This program presents a detailed analysis of the self-rental passive activity rules, including forms reporting examples and integrates them with the flow-through entity rules related to self-rental. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
CPA to CFO: Essential Competencies for Finance Leaders
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
The path from CPA to CFO has evolved dramatically in recent years, with only 43% of S&P 1000 CFOs holding CPA licenses in 2022, down from 55% a decade earlier. This comprehensive course, based on groundbreaking research from the Pennsylvania Institute of CPAs surveying over 320 CEOs and hiring executives, reveals what today's leaders truly seek in CFO candidates and provides a roadmap for CPAs to secure their seat at the executive table. Participants will discover the five critical competencies that distinguish successful CFO candidates: forward-looking financial acumen that goes beyond traditional reporting, strategic leadership skills including critical thinking and strategy creation, the evolving role of emotional intelligence, industry-specific expertise requirements and the balance between technical proficiency and visionary leadership. Through practical frameworks, real-world examples and actionable strategies, attendees will learn how to transform their CPA foundation into a comprehensive skill set that meets the dynamic demands of modern CFO roles, whether in high-growth companies, nonprofits, or traditional corporations. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Individual Tax Update 2026: Cases, Rulings & Real-World Impact
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Tax law continues to evolve-- and so do the risks & opportunities for individual taxpayers. This 2026 update examines the most important cases, IRS rulings & administrative guidance From the past year, translating complex developments into practical takeaways. Learn how new interpretations affect deductions, credits, reporting obligations, controversy issues & tax planning strategies. Walk away with tools you can immediately apply in practice. 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
Analytical Procedures for Nonprofits
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Strong analytical procedures are critical for evaluating the fair presentation of financial statements. In addition, Financial statements are only as good as the information & trends that they produce for operational, strategic, or compliance purposes. This course will provide insights into how to determine the strength & efficiency of nonprofits in achieving objectives & knowledge to improve the analysis of the fair presentation of a nonprofit's financial statements.
International Tax Treaties
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This course presents an overview of tax treaties & how they are used in structuring transactions & determining the tax impact of cross-border transactions. It discusses the ordering rules for local laws versus treaty laws & the purpose of the tax treaties in avoiding & eliminating double taxation to promote trade & investment. The participant will learn about planning opportunities to contemplate when structuring foreign operations. 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.
Tax Depreciation: How to Optimize Deductions
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Following the ever-changing tax deprecation rules is not a game for the faint hearted! This course analyzes the current landscape of depreciating, capitalizing & disposing of business assets, with examples & illustrated case studies to enhance the CPAs understanding of the most current tax depreciation provisions. 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
AI 101 for CPAs: Core Concepts & Practical Applications 26-27
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
New to AI" Start here. This beginner-friendly course explains how generative AI works, what terms like "LLM" and "agentic AI" really mean and how CPAs can safely put these tools to use. You'll leave with a solid understanding of AI fundamentals and how they apply to accounting, tax and finance.
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.
Erase the Mark: Best Practices in Penalty Abatement
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
If there is a potential error, the IRS will assess a tax and add a hefty penalty, without even knowing the facts. As a tax professional, you will be exposed to the IRS and their methods of penalizing taxpayers for the smallest of violations. This presentation will focus on the rules and regulations that create the penalty and the reasons that exist that the IRS will consider to remove those penalties. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
2026 Business Tax Credits
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
Tax credit and incentive programs offer significant but rarely utilized savings. This presentation will introduce the most important federal and California tax credits and incentives available to business taxpayers. Attendees will hear an overview of these benefits and learn how to identify these opportunities for their clients.
Corporate Finance Technology Selection: Practical Frameworks
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
Finance technology decisions (ERP, FP&A, AP/expense automation, close/consolidation, bank integrations and AI-enabled tools) can dramatically improve close speed, forecasting and control execution-but vendor demos and "AI" marketing often hide integration complexity, data readiness gaps, governance risk and long-term total cost. This course provides a practical, vendor-neutral approach for CPAs and finance leaders to evaluate and implement corporate finance technology with an audit-ready mindset. Participants learn how to cut through AI claims using an AI capability framework, apply a weighted vendor evaluation scorecard focused on controls and assurance, build a five-year total cost model that captures hidden and ongoing costs and follow an implementation roadmap with checkpoints and red flags to reduce failure risk and improve ROI realization. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
