CPE Catalog & Events

Comment letter analysis from several Big Four accounting firms Non-GAAP financial measures Comments from the SEC and FASB

An introduction to special purpose frameworks Authoritative and non-authoritative guidance used to prepare SPF financial statements Common issues in preparing SPF financial statements Cash basis and modified cash basis financial statements Income tax basis financial statements The AICPA’s special purpose framework – FRF for SMEsTM

What is blockchain technology? How do you buy crypto? How do you store crypto? Use cases of cryptocurrency Blockchain technology  Use cases of cryptocurrency Tax overview How taxes work for cryptocurrency investors How taxes work for cryptocurrency mining Taxation of other transactions Foreign reporting requirements and crypto How to use a tool like CoinTracker to calculate capital gains and losses New developments in the space Tax planning opportunities  Why do accountants need to care?

The three primary organizational cultures The best cultural fit for certain types of businesses How the finance professional affects culture How to choose the culture you want, and how to get it Greatest things that affect the culture of an organization

Treatment of state and local taxes (SALT) Taxation of overtime pay Treatment of income from tips New deduction for senior citizens Marginal tax rates, personal exemptions, itemized deductions, Child Tax Credit, alternative minimum tax, casualty losses, and other return items Moving expense exclusion Dependent care assistance program and child and dependent care tax credit Home mortgage interest deduction Deduction for new vehicle loan interest Non-itemizer tax deductions Trump accounts/pilot program Estate and gift tax changes Energy deductions and credits Education: expanded use of 529 plans; student loans Many, many other newly enacted individual tax provisions in the far-reaching legislation affecting nearly all taxpayers and their advisors

Employer treatment of new tips and overtime legislation Qualified business income (QBI) deduction 100% bonus depreciation/Section 179 depreciation Increased dollar limitations for expensing of certain depreciable business assets Qualified production property Full expensing for domestic research and development expenses Opportunity zones Section 1202 - treatment of qualified small business stock Business interest deduction Increased threshold for reporting payments to independent contractors and other payees Extension and enhancement of paid family and medical leave Termination of auto and other energy-related subsidies Excess business losses Increased penalties connected to Employee Retention Credits Many, many other newly enacted business tax provisions in the far-reaching legislation affecting nearly all taxpayers and their advisors

Reporting requirements for Schedules K-2 and K-3 Capital account reporting requirements Schedule K-1 reporting for §743 adjustments Schedule K-1 reporting for §704 gains and losses Comprehensive case on partnership/partner application of the business interest deduction Section 704(b) basis versus tax basis for capital accounts Detailed rules of §704 for preventing the shifting of tax consequences among partners or members Unreasonable uses of the traditional and curative allocation methods Layers of §704(c) allocations Treatment of recourse versus nonrecourse debt basis How to calculate basis limitations and the implications on each partner’s own tax return How §179 limitations affect partnership/LLC basis Regulations for handling basis step-ups under §754 elections and mandatory adjustments under §743 and §734 for partnerships that have not made a §754 election Subsequent contributions of property with §754 adjusted basis to another partnership or corporation Capital account adjustments in connection with admission of new members Special allocations and substantial economic effect LLCs and self-employment tax to members Distributions – current or liquidating, cash or property, and the substituted basis rule Termination and liquidation of an LLC

Structure of the ASC codification Content included and not included in the ASC Other information contained in the codification Best practices for performing effective and efficient accounting research

Preliminary analytical procedures as risk assessment procedures Performing final analytical procedures to assess the conclusions reached during the audit and evaluate the overall financial statement presentation. When to use substantive analytical procedures for efficiency and effectiveness Establishing expectations for substantive analytic procedures Setting a threshold for differences Following up on differences from expectations Concluding on substantive analytical procedures

Inventory observation procedures When attendance at the inventory observation is impractical Inventory under the control of a third party Consideration of the risk of fraud in inventory counts Sampling related to inventory observations Considerations related to retail inventories, multiple locations Considerations for inventory observations

Compare and contrast the basis and requirements of preparation, compilation, and review engagements Identifying key reporting elements of compilation and review reports Impact of special purpose accounting frameworks and other special issues

Relevant sections of SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification Updates to SSARS No. 21 guidance due to issuance of SSARS Nos. 22-25 Review of AR-C Section 60 requirements for all SSARS engagements Detailed guidance on performing compilation engagements under AR-C Section 80

Relevant sections of SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification Updates to SSARS No. 21 guidance due to issuance of SSARS Nos. 22-25 Review of AR-C Section 60 requirements for all SSARS engagements Detailed guidance on performing preparation engagements under AR-C Section 70

Differences between planning and budgeting Building change into the planning process The business model Strategic plan Marketing plan Financial forecasting Financial risk analysis Five-year operating plan

Demonstration in Power BI Desktop of the following data tools: Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power View Skills demonstrated: DAX, data visualizations including AI visuals, and data storytelling Demonstration of DAX function types: Aggregation, Iterator, CALCULATE, CALCULATE Modifiers, Time Intelligence, Ranking, and Percentages Demonstration of how to curate a visual in PBI Desktop with a variety of formatting tools; visuals for exploratory analysis; and AI visuals for exploratory analysis

Demonstration of publishing from the desktop to the service Demonstration of workspaces – who has access, and what can they do? Demonstration of pinning tiles to a dashboard: quick insights, questions and answers, and what you can pin Demonstration of sharing content: analyze in Excel, apps, and dataflows Demonstration of administrative settings in the service: security, data access, and data quality

Create a new column from existing columns Adding columns is determined by the data type of the column Adding new columns Hands-on examples: column from examples, merging columns, duplicate columns, custom columns, conditional column, index column

What is an append query? What are the data requirements for an append query? Hands-on examples: combining worksheets in the same workbook, listing all objects in a workbook, combining files in a folder

Functions and parameters Demonstration of invoking a function Basics of data modeling Power Query is everywhere Power BI preview features Hands-on examples: creating a data model from a flat file; transferring an Excel data model to Power BI desktop; preview feature: using text by examples in Power BI desktop

Workflow of a data transformation, including data cleaning, data enrichment, and data shaping How to perform data transformations Hands-on example: flattening a general ledger