WICPA CPE & Special Event Catalog
K2's Improving Productivity With Microsoft 365 Cloud Tools 26-27
-
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
Isn't it time you learned how to unlock the full potential of Microsoft 365 and take advantage of critical features available in your Microsoft 365 subscription" In this session, you will learn to use tools such as Teams, Planner, Power Automate and others to enhance productivity and efficiency.
Acquisitions for Business Growth: Strategy, Integration & Due Diligence 26-27
-
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Mergers, acquisitions and alliances have been — and will continue to be — major avenues to organizational growth and increased competitive advantage. Yet, despite the great initial promise of many business mergers and alliances, few seem to yield the anticipated results. Numerous studies indicate that between 55% and 77% of mergers fail to accomplish their intended purpose. This course helps CFOs, controllers and their advisors identify, negotiate and consummate mergers and acquisitions that create shareholder value while avoiding the many traps that can cause post-acquisition failure.
K2's Better Reporting With QuickBooks Online 26-27
-
Online
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $55
If you're using or plan to transition to QuickBooks Online, will you be able to get the reports you need from the platform" In this session, you'll learn how to maximize your reporting options when working with QuickBooks Online.
Four Most Overlooked Business Risks: Preparing for the Future 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
We tend to focus on fighting today's fires without spending adequate time on bigger, more important risks inherent in today's inter-connected, competitive world. This seminar drills down into four commonly overlooked business risks, looking at how to anticipate, manage, mitigate or exploit them. We will discuss the professional obligations of the board and executive management to assess risks and the responsibility of internal and external auditors to evaluate the adequacy of these assessments.
K2's Excel Essentials For Staff Accountants 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Staff accountants often need guidance to learn which features can help them create effective Excel workbooks. This course will teach them about many of Excel's accounting-centric features enabling them to work more efficiently and generate accurate results.
Accounting & Auditing Update 26-27
-
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
This annual update covers activities of the FASB and Private Company Council (PCC) and reviews new SAS and SSARS. Stay current on new standards related to financial accounting and attest and assurance services including compilations, review and auditing. You'll learn the specific requirements of the standards and their potential impact on financial statements and we will review the pipeline of proposed standards. This years' update will cover induced conversions of convertible debt, stock compensation accounting and disclosure, income tax disclosures, crypto currency accounting, joint venture accounting and updates to the accounting for government grants. We will cover new audit standards including group audit standards and new fraud, evidence and materiality standards. We'll do a deep dive into SAS 145 and the new quality management standards. Note: SEC reporting requirements and public company audit requirements will not be covered.
Estate Planning Strategies Using Irrevocable Trusts 26-27
-
Online
6.00 Credits
Member Price: $259
Many of our clients are looking for techniques to transfer wealth to their loved ones while minimizing gift and estate taxes. Irrevocable trusts take advantage of the currently high exclusion amount to freeze their estates. This course will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using a wide variety of noncharitable trusts, such as spousal lifetime access trusts (SLATs), grantor retained interest trusts (GRATs and GRUTs), intentionally defective grantor trusts (IDGTs), qualified personal residence trusts (QPRTs), life insurance trusts (ILITs), domestic asset protection trusts (DAPTs) and dynasty trusts.
Four Most Overlooked Business Risks: Preparing for the Future 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
We tend to focus on fighting today's fires without spending adequate time on bigger, more important risks inherent in today's inter-connected, competitive world. This seminar drills down into four commonly overlooked business risks, looking at how to anticipate, manage, mitigate or exploit them. We will discuss the professional obligations of the board and executive management to assess risks and the responsibility of internal and external auditors to evaluate the adequacy of these assessments.
K2's Excel Essentials For Staff Accountants 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Staff accountants often need guidance to learn which features can help them create effective Excel workbooks. This course will teach them about many of Excel's accounting-centric features enabling them to work more efficiently and generate accurate results.
Build Your Team: Get Results 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Is teamwork the ultimate competitive advantage" Every manager's primary purpose is to lead a team. This seminar will help you get every member of your team on the same page, improve performance and realize the potential of the talent you have.
K2's Excel Best Practices 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
There are right and wrong ways to work with Excel. In this session, you will learn a series of best practices to help you create Excel workbooks efficiently and effectively, including handling security issues, collaboration needs and reporting options.
Financial Statement Analysis for Managers 26-27
-
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
Financial statements tell a story. Ratios reveal the plot. Desegregate key ratios that show effective management of a company. Learn a compact, efficient approach to financial statement analysis. Be introduced to a set of basic-to-intermediate analytic techniques and tools that provide insightful outputs to a broad spectrum of users with varied analytical objectives. Evaluate management performance, address the changing economic landscape and the need for a new way of thinking.
Fraud --How to Find, How to Prevent 26-27
-
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
Participants will review how to maintain a heightened awareness of fraud with clients and gain a better understanding of how to detect fraud. This interactive workshop, designed for practitioners in small and medium-sized CPA firms, will include a lecture with generous time for questions and case studies to reinforce the concepts.
Build Your Team: Get Results 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Is teamwork the ultimate competitive advantage" Every manager's primary purpose is to lead a team. This seminar will help you get every member of your team on the same page, improve performance and realize the potential of the talent you have.
K2's Excel Best Practices 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
There are right and wrong ways to work with Excel. In this session, you will learn a series of best practices to help you create Excel workbooks efficiently and effectively, including handling security issues, collaboration needs and reporting options.
Financial Accounting Standards: A Comprehensive Review 26-27
-
Online
16.00 Credits
Member Price: $589
This two-day, interactive workshop reviews the hottest accounting topics and recent changes in areas such as private company accounting, revenue recognition, going concern and other specialized subjects. Refresh your research skills and practice using the Codification. Case studies and real-life examples will help attendees readily apply the information covered.
Not-For-Profit Organizations: Financial Overview 26-27
-
Online
3.00 Credits
Member Price: $139
Not-for-profit organizations always need volunteers as treasurers or members of the financial oversight committee! CPAs are often asked to fulfill these roles. This course highlights the financial accounting needs of such organizations. Along with covering the status of the not-for-profit organizations, an update on recent ASC updates affecting nonprofit entities is covered. This course is geared toward hands-on, or future hands-on, treasurers of service clubs and similar not-for-profit organizations.
Preparation, Compilations & Reviews--A Practical Workshop 26-27
-
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
Participants will go over the changes on preparation, compilation and review engagements using SSARS rules, followed by a general overview of how to perform these services. This interactive workshop is designed for practitioners in small and medium-sized CPA firms and will include a lecture with generous time for questions and case studies.
Preparing Financial Statements for Clients 26-27
-
Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $175
This course provides an overview of standards for preparation services, accountants' risks and strategies to minimize risks. The course objective is to furnish current guidance and examples from the AICPA's professional standards for financial statement preparation so that you can apply these to reduce the risk of material misstatements caused by fraud or by error. In addition, this course covers the AICPA's guidance about professional judgments when providing preparation engagements. Together with the four-hour course "Start-up and Small-Business Financial Statements: Issues and Fraud," these two courses meet the eight-hour accounting CPE requirement for accountants that prepare financial statements for clients but do not perform client audits, reviews or compilations.
Preparation, Compilation & Review Issues - Highlights 26-27
-
Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
This course is a refresher of the more significant SSARS requirements for preparation, compilation and review engagements. Includes discussion of SSARS 26 and SSARS 27.
