CPE Catalog & Events
Metrics Management: Choose and Use Key Performance Indicators 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Financial managers have long struggled to drive results through their financial planning and control processes. This seminar shows how to build a performance management framework, linking the company's high-level strategic objectives to performance metrics at the individual responsibility center level. The result will be an easier to use financial planning process that produces better projections and better control.
Not-for-Profit Organizations: Treasury Utilizing QuickBooks 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
Not-for-profit organizations always need volunteers as treasurers or members of the financial oversight committee! CPAs are often asked to fulfill these roles. This course highlights the accounting needs of such organizations. Along with covering the status of the not-for-profit organizations, an update on recent ASC updates affecting nonprofit entities is covered. QuickBooks 2024 Desktop will be used to demonstrate how its tools provide more efficient and effective financial management for your not-for-profit entity. This course is geared toward hands-on, or future hands-on, treasurers of service clubs and similar not-for-profit organizations.
Acquisitions for Business Growth: Strategy, Integration, and Due Diligence 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Mergers, acquisitions and alliances have been — and will continue to be — major avenues to organizational growth and increased competitive advantage. Yet, despite the great initial promise of many business mergers and alliances, few seem to yield the anticipated results. Numerous studies indicate that between 55% and 77% of mergers fail to accomplish their intended purpose. This course helps CFOs, controllers and their advisors identify, negotiate and consummate mergers and acquisitions that create shareholder value while avoiding the many traps that can cause post-acquisition failure.
Financial Statement Analysis for Managers 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Financial statements tell a story. Ratios reveal the plot. Desegregate key ratios that show effective management of a company. Learn a compact, efficient approach to financial statement analysis. Be introduced to a set of basic-to-intermediate analytic techniques and tools that provide insightful outputs to a broad spectrum of users with varied analytical objectives. Evaluate management performance, address the changing economic landscape, and the need for a new way of thinking.
K2's Excel Charting And Visualizations 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Excel charts and other visualizations can be excellent tools for conveying your intended message. Join the K2 team in this session to learn more about how you can create compelling visualizations to help you communicate key business messages.
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
Divorce Concerns: Taxes, Valuation, Finances, Retirement, & Obligations 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
When contemplating a divorce, financial, retirement and tax issues are critical. Many clients need to think through the problems that are about to unfold. As a result, they need more time to be ready. Therefore, understanding, assessing, and deciding how to proceed is essential before completing the marital separation agreement. Discover how to re-design your client's financial plan with these unforeseen issues now part of the mainstream. During this course, you'll learn business valuation; discuss property, retirement and other assets; gain insights on the tax and financial ramifications of divorce; and navigate the assessment and division of financial assets before, during and after the divorce.
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
Divorce Concerns: Taxes, Valuation, Finances, Retirement, & Obligations 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
When contemplating a divorce, financial, retirement and tax issues are critical. Many clients need to think through the problems that are about to unfold. As a result, they need more time to be ready. Therefore, understanding, assessing, and deciding how to proceed is essential before completing the marital separation agreement. Discover how to re-design your client's financial plan with these unforeseen issues now part of the mainstream. During this course, you'll learn business valuation; discuss property, retirement and other assets; gain insights on the tax and financial ramifications of divorce; and navigate the assessment and division of financial assets before, during and after the divorce.
Lease Implementation for Private Entities 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued a new accounting standard for leases. This new standard—ASC Topic 842'replaces the existing ASC Topic 840, changes the accounting for operating leases (requiring capitalization in the financial statements), and upgrades many other lease accounting and reporting aspects.
Fraud Stories Series March 2027
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Each course in the Fraud Stories Series will examine a fraud case in detail. What factors lead the company to go astray" What could have prevented the fraud" What lesson can be learned" A new case presented Live at every session! Fraud Stories Series September 2026 Fraud Stories Series November 2026 Fraud Stories Series January 2027 Fraud Stories Series March 2027
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!?
Microsoft 365 for CPAs: Unlocking Hidden Productivity Tools 26-27
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Microsoft 365 is likely the most underutilized software investment in your firm or business. This course will show how to tap it to many of the lesser known features of the Microsoft 365 ecosystems of apps to maximize your productivity and produce better outputs. Through a series of practical case study demonstrations you will learn how to leverage the full potential of Microsoft 365 in your organization.
2026 Business Tax Credits
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
Tax credit and incentive programs offer significant but rarely utilized savings. This presentation will introduce the most important federal and California tax credits and incentives available to business taxpayers. Attendees will hear an overview of these benefits and learn how to identify these opportunities for their clients.
SSARS 27 - Alternative Preparations 26-27
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Online
2.0 Credits
Member Price: $99
Recently issued SSARS 27, Applicability of AR-C Section 70 to Financial Statements Prepared as Part of a Consulting Services Engagement, will significantly change the way public accounting firms assist in the preparation of financial statements. This program will discuss the practical implications of the standard, how it can affect the need to adhere to SSARS standards, peer review applicability, and how CPAs can help businesses using the Consulting Standards instead of SSARS.
K2's Harnessing ChatGPT 26-27
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Online
1.0 Credits
Member Price: $55
Are you ready to maximize the utility of ChatGPT" If so, participate in this session to learn how to leverage this tool's best features and options.
K2's Mastering Advanced Excel Functions 26-27
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Online
4.0 Credits
Member Price: $175
Are you ready to move past Excel's simple functions, such as SUM" If so, participate in this session to learn about many of Excel's advanced functions, including XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and SWITCH. You'll also learn about the revolutionary Dynamic Arrays feature.
Advanced Personal Financial Planning Update 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
New personal financial planning strategies are emerging due to passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill and evolving personal goals in difficult economic and legal environments. Drawn from recent publications and government directives, this course reviews the latest financial strategies and planning changes from the past year in insurance, investments, tax, estate and retirement, including Social Security and Medicare. Additionally, Randy covers estate and tax planning strategies that enable practitioners to better serve clients by allowing them to take advantage of new opportunities.
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.
Leases: ASC Topic 842 in Depth 26-27
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Online
8.0 Credits
Member Price: $329
An in-depth coverage of ASC Topic 842, Leases . Leasing is popular among corporations for needs including office space and equipment. Since ASC Topic 842, Leases has been adopted by most entities, it is time to review the topic, including any recently issued updates. Excerpts from publicly traded companies' recent disclosures on Leases are also examined.