CPE Catalog & Events
OCBOA Case Studies 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of alternatives to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) financial statement presentations is vital to making proper client choices. For example, practitioners may seek to use the Other Comprehensive Basis of Accounting (OCBOA) financial statement presentations, as GAAP will increase complexity and the cost of compliance. Here, we'll explore compliance with the preparation, presentation, disclosure and reporting nuances of cash- and tax-basis financial statements. We'll also discuss the AICPA's Financial Reporting Framework for Small- and Medium-Sized Entities (FRF for SMEs). This course meets the specific OCBOA requirements that CPAs must meet for the re-issuance of their license.
K2's Six Essential Teams Features 26-27
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
Microsoft Teams is now one of the most widely used tools in the business world today. Yet, most business professionals take advantage of only a fraction of its features. Participate in this session to learn six essential Teams features you should use and how they will improve your productivity.
Build Your Team: Get Results 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Is teamwork the ultimate competitive advantage" Every manager's primary purpose is to lead a team. This seminar will help you get every member of your team on the same page, improve performance and realize the potential of the talent you have.
K2's Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Tools 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Business intelligence efforts continue to grow, and Microsoft's Power BI platform is central to many of these efforts. Participate in this session to learn more about business intelligence and how to create dashboards using Power BI.
Build Your Team: Get Results 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Is teamwork the ultimate competitive advantage" Every manager's primary purpose is to lead a team. This seminar will help you get every member of your team on the same page, improve performance and realize the potential of the talent you have.
K2's Business Intelligence with Microsoft Power BI Tools 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Business intelligence efforts continue to grow, and Microsoft's Power BI platform is central to many of these efforts. Participate in this session to learn more about business intelligence and how to create dashboards using Power BI.
Four Most Overlooked Business Risks: Preparing for the Future 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
We tend to focus on fighting today's fires without spending adequate time on bigger, more important risks inherent in today's inter-connected, competitive world. This seminar drills down into four commonly overlooked business risks, looking at how to anticipate, manage, mitigate or exploit them. We will discuss the professional obligations of the board and executive management to assess risks and the responsibility of internal and external auditors to evaluate the adequacy of these assessments.
Preparation, Compilation and Review Issues - Highlights 26-27
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
This course is a refresher of the more significant SSARS requirements for preparation, compilation and review engagements. Includes discussion of SSARS 26 and SSARS 27.
Fraud—How to Find, How to Prevent 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Participants will review how to maintain a heightened awareness of fraud with clients and gain a better understanding of how to detect fraud. This interactive workshop, designed for practitioners in small and medium-sized CPA firms, will include a lecture with generous time for questions and case studies to reinforce the concepts.
K2's Internal Controls in QuickBooks Online Environments 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Internal control issues often arise in QuickBooks Online environments. However, that need not be the case! In this session, you will learn about internal control features that can help you maximize your QBO experience while simultaneously reducing risk.
Preparing Financial Statements for Clients 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
This course provides an overview of standards for preparation services, accountants' risks, and strategies to minimize risks. The course objective is to furnish current guidance and examples from the AICPA's professional standards for financial statement preparation so that you can apply these to reduce the risk of material misstatements caused by fraud or by error. In addition, this course covers the AICPA's guidance about professional judgments when providing preparation engagements. Together with the four-hour course "Start-up and Small-Business Financial Statements: Issues and Fraud," these two courses meet the eight-hour accounting CPE requirement for accountants that prepare financial statements for clients but do not perform client audits, reviews or compilations.
Four Most Overlooked Business Risks: Preparing for the Future 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
We tend to focus on fighting today's fires without spending adequate time on bigger, more important risks inherent in today's inter-connected, competitive world. This seminar drills down into four commonly overlooked business risks, looking at how to anticipate, manage, mitigate or exploit them. We will discuss the professional obligations of the board and executive management to assess risks and the responsibility of internal and external auditors to evaluate the adequacy of these assessments.
Balance Sheet Management: The Least Understood Risk” 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Most organizations manage their income statement, but many virtually ignore the balance sheet until balance sheet problems create seemingly insurmountable emergencies. This session discusses how to analyze and manage your financial statements more holistically, allowing you to identify and correct balance sheet issues early. How do you choose whether to raise debt or equity" What are the key considerations and the advantages of each" What is the cost of capital" What are the "hidden" balance sheet risks" We will also examine several crucial ideas you can incorporate into your analyses to enhance performance and reduce risk. If you want to enhance your corporate finance skills, this session is for you.
K2's Excel’s Best Practices & Features 26-27
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Excel remains a staple tool for virtually all accounting and financial professionals. In this session, learn about many of the newer features in Excel, along with some you may have overlooked in the past'truly "must-see CPE!?
K2's Top PDF Features You Should Know 26-27
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
PDF documents are a staple of the business community, yet most users are unaware of how to utilize this technology effectively. Participate in this session to learn ten valuable tips to help you get more from your PDFs.
World Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application—Part 1 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Enhance your career with an invaluable skill set in this two-part series, where you'll explore the cost system of a real company from the ground up. Learn how to link variable and base costs, identify fluctuating and semi-fixed direct costs, and accurately trace direct materials, labor, and labor burden to products. Gain practical tools for budgeting, setting standard costs, and seamlessly embedding Activity-Based Costing (ABC) into a comprehensive cost system. Be sure to also register for Part 2: World Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application - Part 2
Predicting the Future: 21st Century Budgets and Projections 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
We all make predictions in our personal and professional lives. We base our decisions to marry, buy a house, launch a new product or hire staff on expectations about the future. How can we use best practices and current research to improve our ability to predict the future" We will examine current best practices in forecasting to help us prepare better budgets and projections. We will also examine budgeting pitfalls and ways to avoid budget traps. We will discuss the risks that cause actual results to vary from our predictions and discuss methods to deal with both known and unknown risks.
Accounting Industry Update 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Stay current on recent changes in accounting and auditing. Review Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Private Company Council (PCC), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standard-setting activity in the current year. Implementation dates will be provided so you can plan for changes, and the course will highlight the changes that will be implemented in the current year. Also, we'll discuss the difference between public and private company requirements.
K2's Advanced Excel 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
If you're ready to move beyond Excel's fundamental features, participate in K2's Advanced Excel. This course will teach you about collaboration options, security techniques, tables, data models, PivotTables, and advanced formulas.
World Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application—Part 2 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Build on the foundation from Part 1 and deepen your expertise by mastering the treatment of manufacturing overhead. Using the cost system of a real company, you'll learn to distinguish overhead costs that can be directly traced versus directly assigned, and how to structure inventory cost pools for accurate product costing. Explore methods for handling deviations from normal manufacturing processes and see how all overhead costs can be systematically integrated into a comprehensive cost system. Completing Part 1 is highly recommended, as its principles carry forward into this advanced application. World Class Cost Accounting: A Practical Application - Part 1