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This course concisely explains the latest "see, hear, speak" multi-modal updates to ChatGPT and how they can be used in an accounting context. New features include vision processing, voice conversation, image generation, real-time Internet access, advanced data analysis, plugins and more. Discover how this technology can be used in mind-blowing ways to analyze financial data, optimize processes, and solve problems in the accounting domain. Through the lens of ChatGPT, practitioners can explore innovative solutions, automate routine tasks, and generate deeper insights and value to their clients and organizations in previously unimaginable workflows. You'll walk away with scores of advanced ChatGPT strategies and tips that can be immediately applied and deliver instant results to elevate the efficiency and effectiveness of your accounting projects and tasks.

This CPE course can be purchased individually or as part of the Estate Planning Certificate Program. Advanced estate planning strategies employ the use of family entities, including family limited partnerships, family limited liability corporations, and family offices. To be effective in advanced estate planning, you must have an awareness and knowledge of these strategies, as well as the accompanying law and regulations. Updated for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017, this CPE course covers advanced estate planning strategies and the various types of generational skipping transfers, so you can provide reasoned recommendations to your clients. Enhanced On-Demand Format This enhanced on-demand format offers meaningful and relevant content in the form of tables, charts, and discussion points on slides. An instructor who is an expert on the topical area breaks down complex topics, offers best practices, provides clarity, and shares insights that help the learner achieve the learning objectives for the course.

This course dives into the powerful, but potentially under-utilized, capabilities of Microsoft Excel. Designed for sophisticated users willing to approach spreadsheets from a unique perspective, this program encourages users to challenge the status quo by considering opportunities to take acceptable spreadsheets to a new level.

Save when you buy the complete Tax Staff Essentials, Level 4 online bundle. This course will help tax professionals understand the increasingly complex rules governing income tax accounting with active scenarios and practical exercises that guide you on how to address these rules. Learn the specifics of applying FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 740, Income Taxes: Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes, as well as the impact IFRS has had on accounting for income taxes. You will also take on issues in dealing with other accounting standards in conjunction with FASB ASC 740. This course will also discuss intra-entity transfer of assets other than inventory; classification of deferred taxes; and improvements to employee share-based payment accounting - all updated for the most recent legislation.

Unless you expect your organization to be stable in the short, medium and long term, you need to understand how to create long-term balance sheet and cash flow projections. Growing organizations must know whether they will have the resources to execute their business plan. Struggling organizations need to know if they will have the cash to survive. This session will increase your organization's ability to see its future and increase the confidence that your CEO, Board and bank have in you.

Save when you buy the complete Tax Staff Essentials, Level 3 online bundle. Help S corporation clients with tax planning Understand the intricacies of the S corporation form of doing business and consider the tax effect that various types of S corporation distributions will have on the corporation's shareholders. Learn about planning and reporting successful complex S corporation transactions, updated for the latest tax legislation. Explore the uses of qualified subchapter S subsidiaries to help you minimize your client's tax bill with winning strategies related to this type of entity. This course provides CPE in the Taxation field of study.

Save when you buy the complete Tax Staff Essentials, Level 4 online bundle. Rules and regulations Learn the IRC's partnership tax rules and regulations to effectively serve your business and individual partner clients. Partnership taxation concepts Master the advanced concepts of partnership taxation so you can provide your clients with valuable advice and tax planning strategies, updated with the most recent legislation and IRS guidance affecting partnerships and LLCs. Tax consequences Learn more about the tax consequences of special allocations, liquidating and nonliquidating distributions, property basis calculations under various scenarios, and sales of a partnership interest.

Get up-to-date skills and information Key issues Learn about key issues that can arise in a single audit engagement conducted under the Uniform Guidance. Enhance your knowledge and test your ability to plan, perform and evaluate single audits in accordance with the requirements of the Uniform Guidance using case studies and real-world examples.

Be ready for compliance auditing Key issues Gain insight into key issues related to internal control and compliance auditing. As it relates to internal control, gain an understanding about the following requirements of the Uniform Guidance: perform procedures to obtain an understanding of internal control over federal programs sufficient to plan the audit to support a low assessed level of control risk of noncompliance for major programs; plan the testing of internal control over compliance for major programs to support a low assessed level of control risk of noncompliance for the assertions relevant to the compliance requirements for each major program; and perform testing of internal control over compliance as planned; and report on internal control over compliance, describing the scope of testing of internal control and the results of the tests and, where applicable, referring to the separate schedule of findings and questioned costs. Understand the importance of documenting the work that was done. Learn about various aspects of the compliance audit that require particular attention, including information about performing a compliance audit and obtaining the audit evidence needed to express an opinion on compliance. Advanced topics Explore advanced topics including the following: Ineffective internal controls Dual-purpose testing Subrecipients Program clusters

In most organizations, strategic planning and budgeting are separate processes, making them out of alignment from their inception. This webinar explores a practical "real world" planning approach that aligns spending to long-term strategy, creates a culture of accountability and responsibility, and might actually be fun when everyone gets on board. The result will create a model for your organization's future growth and profitability.

This video-based CPE course is included in the Not-for-Profit Certificate II Program. It can be purchased individually or as a part of the Not-for-Profit Certificate II - Governance and Assurance track. Not-for-profits (NFPs) vary significantly in their purpose, size, and complexity, but they all have one thing in common: they exist to fulfill a societal need or accomplish a public benefit. Strategic planning helps set priorities, allocate resources, and align staff and volunteers' efforts to effectively accomplish the NFP's mission. Successful NFPs can execute a clear strategy, monitor progress and evaluate results. This CPE course offers detail-rich examples and case studies to help you apply proven techniques to strategic planning. Note: As of August 1, 2018, course content has been updated to reflect implementation of FASB Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) effective for most not-for-profit entities for their next financial reporting period, including those related to financial statement presentation (ASU 2016-14) and revenue recognition (ASU 2014-09 and ASU 2018-08).

Fraud activities can be executed from within an organization, by parties outside an entity, or by both. Importantly, as the business world becomes more technological, the way fraud is carried out is changing. There must be an increased focus on understanding where new fraud vulnerabilities exist. In this session, we delve into the reasons that both internal and external intentional defalcations take place. The material discusses the new ways fraud is being actuated and looks at the factors driving those that undertake fraud. We spend time examining measures that can be implemented in order to stop fraud via the deployment of added security across the enterprise.

Fraud activities can be executed from within an organization, by parties outside an entity, or by both. Importantly, as the business world becomes more technological, the way fraud is carried out is changing. There must be an increased focus on understanding where new fraud vulnerabilities exist. In this session, we delve into the reasons that both internal and external intentional defalcations take place. The material discusses the new ways fraud is being actuated and looks at the factors driving those that undertake fraud. We spend time examining measures that can be implemented in order to stop fraud via the deployment of added security across the enterprise.

Leases overview Implementation Get a bird's-eye view of FASB ASC 842, Leases, and learn how a lease contract is identified, recognized, initially measured, subsequently measured, presented in the financial statements, and disclosed in the notes to the financial statements. Also gain a high-level view of lease modifications, sale and leaseback transactions, and tips on implementing FASB ASC 842.

This session explores the nature of analytical procedures, with significant emphasis placed upon professional standards involving the use of analytical procedures in audit and review engagements. Practical examples to illustrate the application process will also be given.

This CPE course can be purchased individually or as part of the Retirement Planning Certificate Program. The SECURE Act is the first major legislation to revamp retirement plans in over a decade. The provisions and planning strategies to help your clients avoid unintended tax consequences on their estate and retirement plans have been implemented into this learning program. Are you ready to help your clients set realistic expectations and goals? In this four-part narrated PowerPoint presentation, Tom Tillery will examine Key assumptions and risks, Modeling techniques, Taxation and income tax planning, and Integration with other areas of PFP. Personal financial planners have numerous techniques available to estimate what financial independence looks like in their client's personal financial plan. This course will look at several of these techniques; as well as address taxation and income tax planning issues and strategies, and the integration of financial independence planning with other areas of personal financial planning. Note: This course has been updated for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("Tax Reform"). Moderator, Tom Tillery Thomas Neal Tillery, CFPr, AEPr, CLUr, ChFCr, CRPCr, LUTCF is Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of Parakleter Financial, Inc. Parakleter provides integrated fee-for-service financial planning without asset management or product sales. Enhanced On-Demand Format This on-demand format utilizes a slide deck format, enhanced with narration and interactive exercises that are designed to increase the level of engagement and hands-on application. Drag and drop exercises, case studies, and interactive diagrams are some examples of the interactive exercises that are used to supplement traditional instruction in this learning experience.

This CPE course can be purchased individually or as part of the Risk Management and Insurance Planning Certificate Program. What is an annuity? The short answer is that it's a contract that provides a periodic payment for a fixed period or for the duration of one's life. Annuity contracts can be complex, from both design and income tax perspectives. As the personal financial planner, you must be educated in the numerous applications and products available, and their tax consequences, to offer a reasoned opinion to clients regarding annuities in their overall financial plan. In this audiovisual CPE course, Tom Tillery will cover several types of annuities, including traditional, private placement variable, private, and charitable annuities. Additionally, you will learn how an annuity contract may be structured, based on the following factors: Commencement of benefit payments-immediate or deferred Method of premium payment-single or periodic payment Number of lives insured by the contract-single or joint Payment type-fixed or variable payment Plan of payment-settlement options or distributions

This video-based CPE course is included in the Not-for-Profit Certificate II Program. It can be purchased individually or as a part of the Not-for-Profit Certificate II - Governance and Assurance track. How does your not-for-profit (NFP) ensure stewardship for funds received and accountability to constituents? Do you consider potential challenges or weaknesses - both operational and organizational - that could lead to negative consequences? Risk management is a continuous process. Failure to effectively consider and respond to risks could lead to lost revenue, increased costs, a tarnished reputation, and a decrease in constituents' perceived value of services. Not only is risk management an essential element of good governance, but it also informs the strategic planning process to keep an NFP on a path to mission success. In this CPE course, you will learn how to apply risk management techniques using the COSO Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework to create a strategy and an internal control structure tailored for the NFP environment. This course contains step-by-step examples and case studies to help you create a scalable risk management structure for any NFP.

Gain efficiency The Uniform Guidance Learn how to be more efficient and effective at planning and performing audits in accordance with the Uniform Guidance. Highlights Gain knowledge regarding performing a compliance audit under the Uniform Guidance, including the responsibilities of both the auditee and auditor. Learn how to identify federal assistance and how to determine a nonfederal entity's major programs. Gain an understanding of assessing, and testing internal control over compliance, and learn what is involved in identifying and testing compliance requirements in a single audit, as well as reporting on the results.

The more you know The Uniform Guidance Gain an understanding of Subparts A through E of the Uniform Guidance with an emphasis on the areas related to administrative requirements and cost principles. Learn the federal administrative requirements for nonfederal entities administering federal awards. Gain information regarding the federal cost principles that must be followed when charging direct and indirect costs to federal awards.