CPE Catalog & Events
Surgent's The Road Ahead: Critical OBBBA Changes Impacting Accounting and Finance Professionals
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Marginal tax rates effective in 2025 and beyond The QBI deduction Qualified residential interest Child Care Credit Miscellaneous itemized deductions, including the educator deduction Rollovers from 529 plans to ABLE accounts Additional expenses treated as qualified higher education expenses for purposes of 529 accounts Termination of credits for environmentally clean autos and expenditures Other timely topics
Webcast: K2's Getting Started With Artificial Intelligence 26-27
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Understanding AI tools available today
Webcast: K2's What’s New With QuickBooks 26-27
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Webcast
1.0 Credits
Licensing issues
Webcast: K2's Excel Best Practices 26-27
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Best practices associated with creating Excel workbooks, including managing workbooks
Surgent's Annual Accounting and Auditing Update
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Recently issued FASB Accounting Standards Updates, PCC Update, and items on the FASB’s Technical Agenda Recently issued ASUs covering derivatives, credit losses under ASC 326, government grants, and expense disaggregation FASB Final PIR Report for Leases (Topic 842) Statement on Quality Management Standards: SQMS 1, SQMS 2, and SQMS 3 Proposed SAS on the auditor’s responsibility relating to fraud Recently issued SASs and other AICPA activity Recently issued PCAOB standards and SEC rulemaking activities Other important A&A practice matters
Surgent's Perplexing Financial and Economic Issues for the CFO/Controller
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Regulatory, fiscal, and monetary policies impact on the organization Dodd-Frank Bill and impact on financial reform Health insurance reform and the impact on the employer Managing risk in an uncertain economic climate
The Best Individual Income Tax Update Course by Surgent
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Comprehensive coverage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Review of key components of President Trump's tax bill, including a tip income exemption, overtime pay relief, Social Security tax exemption, auto loan interest deductibility, SALT deduction modifications, a lower corporate tax rate, restoration of 100% bonus depreciation, immediate R&D expensing, and permanent extension of select TCJA provisions Tariff policy and implementation - analyze the use of tariffs as a fiscal and trade policy tool Digital assets and tax implications - understand the new Form 1099-DA for reporting digital asset transactions, along with updated IRS guidance on cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and broker responsibilities Artificial intelligence - discover how AI and generative tools are transforming tax practices, as well as how the IRS is leveraging AI to enhance audit selection Form 1099-K reporting requirements - understand the evolving IRS thresholds and rules for third-party payment platforms The Gig Economy - examine key tax implications for gig workers, including Independent Contractor vs. Employee classification challenges, reporting responsibilities, and the impact of the 2024 Department of Labor Final Rule on worker status Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Real Estate professional requirements Review of pertinent cases and rulings affecting taxpayers Practice aids, including all the numbers applicable for the current year -- inflation-adjusted amounts, mileage rates, retirement contributions, and more Advanced practice, reporting, and other issues intertwined with advanced planning and discussion ideas
Surgent's Understanding S Corporation Taxation: Late S Corporation Elections, Disproportionate Distributions, and Selling Shares
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Making an S corporation election and late filing relief Disproportionate distributions Selling S corporation shares Redemption rules
Webcast: Auditing Standards Update & Best Practices 26-27
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
Designing and performing sufficient audit procedures required for all audits, particularly when auditing privately-owned companies Identify controls that exist, especially when those controls are not clearly identified or formalized Evaluate if those controls prevent or detect material misstatements in the financial statements Design effective audit procedures (including testing of controls where appropriate) in response to the auditor's assessed risk of the potential material misstatements in the financial statements
Webcast: How to Review Financial Statements 26-27
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
Practice reviewing financial statements Financial statement case studies
Webcast: Driving Corporate Performance: The CFO’s Role in Competitiveness 26-27
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Know why successful companies focus their strategy Translate strategic initiatives into accomplishments
Webcast: K2's Excel Best Practices 26-27
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Best practices associated with creating Excel workbooks, including managing workbooks
Webcast: Microsoft 365 for CPAs: Unlocking Hidden Productivity Tools 26-27
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Round robin review of lesser-known M365 apps
Surgent's Hiring New Workers and Payroll Taxes
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Form W-4 Form I-9 Form W-9 End-of-year compliance Payroll tax returns Unemployment insurance
Surgent's Emotional Intelligence
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
Self-awareness Self-regulation & motivation Empathy Managing relationships
Surgent's Advising a Client Regarding the Tax Consequences Associated with Buying or Selling a Business
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Webcast
3.0 Credits
Due diligence checklist items Asset sales and stock sales and their attendant results to buyers and sellers Section 1060 and the residual method Selling sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations Consequences of making a Section 754 election with adjustments under Sections 743(b) and 734(b) Section 338 and Section 338(h)(10) elections Allocating some of the purchase price of a business to personal goodwill Partnership distributions to retiring partners under Section 736(a) and 736(b) Consulting agreements and employment agreements as between buyers and sellers Advantages of a C corporation having Section 1202 stock
Webcast: Comprehensive FASB & AICPA Update for Tax Professionals 26-27
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Webcast
6.0 Credits
Broadly applicable ASU effective in 2025 and beyond Significant recent SAS Tax-basis financial statements
Webcast: Estate Planning: A Comprehensive Overview 26-27
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Intestate succession and probate administration Holding title to assets Lifetime asset transfers and testamentary asset transfer planning Structures to avoid or minimize transfer taxes Living trusts, including A-B and A-B-C, life insurance trusts, terminating irrevocable trusts, use of trust protectors, trust administration during incapacity and post-mortem
Webcast: Not-for-Profit Organizations: Treasury Utilizing QuickBooks 26-27
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Financial entity IRS filing status Recent ASC updates affecting nonprofits Inflows and Outflows QuickBooks Desktop Setup Data entry Reporting Governance policies and budgeting
Webcast: Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis 26-27
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Webcast
8.0 Credits
Detailed coverage of any new legislation affecting basis computations and distributions and changes to the schedule K-1s (including the Form 7203—S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations) Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect an S shareholder's stock and debt basis and a partner/member's outside basis and where the items get reported on Federal individual income tax return The three loss and deduction limitations on the owner's individual income tax return (i.e. basis, at-risk and other Form 1040 limitations) How cash or non-cash distributions affect the basis calculations and whether or not they are taxable to the owners Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder's stock in an S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership What constitutes debt basis for an S corporation shareholder under the final regulations The tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders and on open account debt How recourse and non-recourse debt affect a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk