WICPA CPE & Special Event Catalog
Revenue Recognition: Topic 606 Disclosures
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Online
1.20 Credits
Member Price: $39
The standard also requires information about the following categories: disaggregation of revenue contract balances performance obligations This webinar will deal directly with disclosure requirements for the standard. Several courses currently exist on the platform related to an overview of the standard & deep dive into individual steps of the standards.
Sarbanes-Oxley 20 years later: Sourcing Emerging Risks Part II
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Online
1.80 Credits
Member Price: $79
It would be amiss to not recognize that the passage of time has changed our world. Think of various events such as economic change, technological evolution, the pandemic etc. These are just a few of the changes that may have impacted the manner in which we execute some of the processes outlined in the SOX legislation. In this segment we will focus on sourcing of emerging risks by utilizing to COSO principles.
Cash Management: Strategies for Long-Term Success
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Many finance departments spend considerable time managing cash, particularly if the organization is highly leveraged or cash rich. Many opportunities exist to reduce your financing costs or increase short-term cash returns if you manage cash effectively. This session will cover a wide variety of day-to-day cash management tools.
Tax Practice Ethical Challenges & Circular 230
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This presentation will provide a detailed analysis of the Circular 230 rules for conduct of a tax practice, with a review of the political, legislative & regulatory rules impacting every accounting & tax professional. Best practices & guidance provided by the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct will be discussed. 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.comNote: This course qualifies to count toward the WICPA membership Ethics CPE requirement.
Compilation, Preparation & Review Basics & Peer Reviews
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Cover the basic requirements for performing preparation, compilation and review engagements under Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS), including the new SSARS No. 25, Materiality in a Review of Financial Statements and Adverse Conclusions. Review common issues found on SSARS engagements in connection with peer reviews and the impact of various findings on the results of a peer review. Identify key issues to consider during SSARS engagements and determine how to incorporate quality control recommendations and tips for performing high-quality SSARS engagements. 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 Excel for Accountants: Using Excel to Cleanse & Prepare Data
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
Do you ever import data into Excel and then spend a bunch of time manually preparing it for use? Perhaps you delete extra columns or rows. Maybe you need to split a single column into multiple columns, or, combine multiple columns into a single column. The good news is that many of these transformations can be fully automated with Excel! The Get & Transform tools built-in to Excel 2016 for Windows, formerly available as the Power Query add-in, are incredibly powerful. At a high level, they enable us to retrieve data from a variety of sources and prepare it for use as needed. In this session, we'll use Get & Transform queries to help with several common tasks, including flattening data, splitting and combining columns, formatting data, unpivoting summarized data and combining several csv exports. If you frequently export/import data from one system to another, you will want to understand how to use a Get & Transform query to streamline your work.
OBBA 2025 Unpacked: Impact for Taxpayers & Business Owners
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Whether you asked for it (or not) & its here! The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed on July 4. This program will dig into the meat of the Act that will matter to your clients, including No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, increased Section 199A Deduction, 100% Section 168(k) Bonus & much, much more! 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
Everything You Need to Know About the Pass-Through Entity Rules: IRC 199A The Code & Regulations
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
As part of the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act (TCJA), IRC 199A was added. This Internal Revenue Code section allows certain pass-through entities the ability to has made it deduct up to 20% of their qualified business. Although practitioners have had over three years of "experience" utilizing IRC 100A, many practitioners still do not feel comfortable with this part of the Internal Revenue Code. The purpose of this presentation is to provide the practitioner with an understanding of the rules of IRC 199A as well as an understanding of the IRC 199A regulations. 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.
Fundamentals of Form 1040: Business
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
This course builds on the foundational knowledge from Part 1, Fundamentals of the 1040 - Core Concepts. It expands into business income taxation and additional reporting requirements. Participants will learn how to accurately report self-employment income, income from pass-through entities on Form 1040. This course covers Schedule C, Schedule E and essential forms such as Form 7203 and Form 7217 to ensure accurate tax preparation for clients with business activities. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
Understanding & Creating an Internal Control System
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $239
Successful organizations, both large and small, must understand the importance of effective internal controls and be able to develop a system of controls that will keep the entity on its intended course. Moreover, those that design policies and procedures benefit by knowing why control measures are necessary. This session sets forth internal control concepts and explains the importance of strong internal control policies. The material highlights some of the reasons that measures are needed and it also provides an overview of control creation methods. Finally, it discusses ways to successfully implement the developed policies and procedures. Participants that take this course will gain a well-rounded understanding of internal control procedures of all types. 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.
The Controllership Series: Managerial Accounting Basics & Costs
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Online
1.20 Credits
Member Price: $39
Managerial accounting provides economic & financial information for managers & other internal users. Managerial & Financial Accounting have similarities & differences. Each field of accounting deals with the economic events of a business. Both managerial & financial accounting require that a company's economic events be quantified & communicated to interested parties. This another course in our series on the controller's role. The controller's role encompasses many traditional functions. Within this segment of our controllership series, we discuss the area of managerial accounting & the basic concepts that surround this discipline as it primarily relates to cost accounting issues.
Accountants & Malpractice: Can We Get Sued for This?
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This seminar reviews situations in which a CPA or accounting professional may be in danger of being sued. We cover common law causes of action, such as negligence and the relevant standards and case law defining what constitutes reasonable practitioner behavior. This course is ideal for lawyers, CPAs, EAs, tax preparers, accountants and insurance 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.
Better Business Writing: Improve Your Speed & Quality
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Technology has given us many new writing tools, but they may just allow an inexperienced novice to turn out poor communications more quickly. Whatever your expertise level, this webinar will help you take your writing skills to another level, saving your time & making it far more likely your reader will read & understand your message.
Comprehensive Roth IRA Strategies Analysis 26-27
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
There is a lot of buzz and rules of thumb about Roth strategies, but very little discussion on what the fiduciary-level analysis methodology should be. This course will provide insights on creating and evaluating an analysis and recommendations with targeted vetting questions. Rules of thumb can sometimes be detrimental, causing families to pay much more in taxes over their lifetimes than necessary. A very significant portion of the population is prevented from executing a straight-forward Roth Contribution due to the income restrictions. What was once a risky way to thwart that rule has now become accepted and many clients can benefit. These contributions should typically take precedence to saving to a brokerage/taxable account, but there are some steps that need to be addressed to prevent unwanted taxation. In addition, you'll learn about the mega-backdoor Roth. SECURE 2.0 includes many new rules and some of them address Roth IRA/401k. We'll cover these and how they can help your clients.
Strategic CFO: Strategic Risk Management
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Risk management is no longer a compliance exercise-it is a core strategic responsibility of today's CFO & CPA. This session demystifies Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) by walking through the COSO framework in clear, practical terms. Participants will learn how risk integrates with strategy & performance, how organizations identify & assess risk & how leaders respond to uncertainty in a disciplined way. Using examples, polling & case discussions, this session equips financial professionals to communicate risk effectively & help organizations protect & create value. Some funny video clips will be used to focus on the learning material.
AI Lessons Learned for Accountants
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This course provides accountants with the leading AI insights and strategies drawn from real-world experience, empirical studies, countless CPA case studies and social media commentary. It goes beyond theory, offering practical lessons learned from the front lines of AI implementation in the business world and accounting industry. Participants will gain actionable knowledge on bridging the theory-application gap, navigating exponential technological changes and creating secure, adaptive AI policies. By the end of the session, accountants will be equipped to leverage AI responsibly and innovatively in their roles. 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.
2026/27 Not-for-Profit GAAP Update
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
Stay current on the latest accounting developments affecting not-for-profit organizations with this timely GAAP update. This course reviews recently issued Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) impacting NFP financial reporting, along with standard-setting projects currently in the FASB pipeline. The course also introduces the International Non-Profit Accounting Standard (INPAS)-the first comprehensive global accounting framework designed specifically for non-profit organizations, launched in October 2025. Participants will gain perspective on the purpose and structure of INPAS and how it compares conceptually to U.S. GAAP requirements for NFPs. This course is designed to help practitioners, financial leaders and auditors of not-for-profit organizations understand both current GAAP requirements and emerging global developments shaping the future of nonprofit financial reporting. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.
International Tax Forum - March 2027
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
Every month, a new international tax topic. Join the Hodgen Law team live'fresh insights, straight from the source. Check back for specific topics, as they're updated monthly. 2026 Dates: May 29, June 26, July 31, August 28, September 25, October 30, November 20, December 18 2027 Dates: February 26, March 26, April 30
