CPE Catalog & Events

Comprehensive coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act, including: The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, The Clean Vehicle Credit, Credit for Previously Owned Clean Vehicles, Credit for Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicles, §45L New Energy Efficient Home Credit, Elective Payment, Transferability, and Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements Principles and considerations for nonresident withholding, composite payments, and passthrough entity taxes Comprehensive coverage of the SECURE 2.0 Act with a focus on provisions applicable to employers Thinking beyond §163(j) -- Interest Allocation Rules, Original Issue Discount, Applicable High Yield Discount Obligations, Convertible Corporate Debt Instruments, and Debt-Financed Distributions  Retirements and redemptions: considerations for partnerships and S corporations Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Selected Practice and Reporting Issues: What’s new? A review of recent cases and tax law changes and IRS guidance affecting S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships Form 1099-K reporting requirements Bonus depreciation in 2024 Section 174 Research & Experimental Expenditures -- new guidance under Notice 2023-63 and Notice 2024-12 New FinCEN reporting requirements in 2024, including recently updated FAQs Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Ethics Leadership Practice Management

Election year dynamics and legislative leadership changes shaping the political landscape Navigating a budget deficit Regulating the use of AI systems Environmental reporting BOI reporting What's next in licensure changes to support the CPA pipeline

Critical audit matters (CAM) PCAOB Expanded audit report XBRL Footnote disclosure Textual analysis Market reaction Unexpected disclosures Audit quality Audit fees

Performance cycle How to prepare a review How to deliver a review

Benefit Plan Audits Financial Statement Audit

Blockchain (BC) Transformative strategic role Leading vendors Event study Market reactions

Diversity Equity Inclusion

What Sustainability is in today's world and why a business owner should care How Sustainability Frameworks are starting to shift business Where accounting fits into the Sustainability and ESG puzzle The benefits of embracing Sustainability frameworks A focused look at B Corporation certification

Behavioral profiling Psychology and reasoning related to both investigators and perpetrators

Mapping mechanics Common pitfalls Popular retirement myths Defining retirement Developing a plan Savings Assets

Building an effective time management framework Three time factors-time wasters, time savers and time management techniques Managing "oneself" to improve the management of time

Fraud Accounting and Auditing

Will Your Advance Directive Protect You Both Personally and Financially? Creating Trusted Planning Relationships Retirement Plans, Roth Planning and Conversions Reverse Mortgages

New developments: Federal and California update IRS audits of estate tax returns New RMD rules, Roth conversions and estate planning for large retirement plans Update from Washington regarding tax law changes Helping your clients reduce, defer or eliminate capital gains taxes Trust reformation and decanting update Hot topics in international tax and estate planning and considerations for transfers to non-U.S. citizen spouses Valuation of notes The feasibility of using IDGTs and how you use it Planning for changing exemption in 5 Flow-through entities and impact on trusts Changing exemption panel discussion Charitable planning Special needs trusts

Team roles High-performing teams Success behaviors

Cognitive routines Psychological safety Learning from risk and failure

How close is a typical CPA to financial planning? Tax-related financial planning activities Retirement Planning and financial planning activities CPAs perform