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August 7, 2025  |  December 4, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.  |  8 credits (Multiple)
  
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Do more than check the compliance box! Strengthen core financial accounting, audit and assurance, tax, and ethics competencies at CoreCon CPE Day, where you'll engage in next-level learning with national, state and local thought leaders.

 


CoreCon Topics

Unlock access to important topics covering:

  • Financial reporting and auditing
  • State and local tax developments including a legislative update
  • Professional standards and responsibilities (ethics)
  • The economy and what's ahead in 2025

 

 


 

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August 7, 2025  |  December 4, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.  |  8 credits (Multiple)
  
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Agenda

August 7, 2025

Virtual

 


Note: This agenda will continue to evolve as we move closer to the event date. Check back for updates.

 

 

1. From Compliance to Impact: Reclaiming Control and Purpose in Public Accounting
Sam Mansour, CPA, Mansour Advisory Group

  • Recognize the hidden value in their accumulated client knowledge and how to use it beyond compliance work to drive financial performance for clients.
  • Differentiate between compliance services and financial performance services and understand the strategic advantage of offering the latter.
  • Understand the personal and professional benefits of aligning firm services with high-impact, advisory-driven work that leads to more meaningful client relationships.
  • Identify the critical role of client acquisition in reshaping a CPA practice and learn how taking control of the client pipeline can unlock pricing power, freedom, and firm sustainability.
  • Apply mindset shifts and practical strategies that allow CPAs to build healthier firms, reduce stress, and reclaim the career satisfaction that inspired them to enter the profession.

 

2. PSR Ethics
Justin Breidenbach, CPA, CFE, Owner, Breidenbach Consulting Services, Assistant Professor, Capital University

  • Develop a clear understanding of professional standards and ethical responsibilities
  • Identify common ethical dilemmas and challenges encountered in professional practice, and explore effective strategies for ethical decision-making and resolution.
  • Enhance awareness of the broader implications of ethical behavior on organizational reputation, client trust, and long-term professional success.

 

3. Ins and Outs of an IRS Audit
Justin Yarnell, CPA, J.D., Senior Associate, Frost Brown Todd, LLC

  • Describe the Internal Revenue Service audit process.
  • Discuss how to deal with an IRS Revenue Agent during an IRS audit.
  • Explain how, where, and when to Appeal an IRS audit


4. OSCPA Legislative Update
Adam Garn, Plante MoranChris Smyke, Plant Moran

  • Gain insights into timely state and federal legislative issues.
  • Unpack regulatory reforms at the Ohio Department of Taxation and Accountancy Board of Ohio.
  • Review state and federal judicial decisions impacting tax developments.

 

5. Accounting and Auditing Updates

John Krizansky, CPA, Citrin Cooperman

  • Understand recent and proposed guidance issued by the FASB
  • Financial reporting updates, including impact of tariffs
  • Technology updates in accounting and auditing

 

6. Tax Update
Rebecca Schievelbein, Plante Moran
Logan Linkhart, CPA, Plante Moran
  • Obtain an understanding of State tax developments across the country
  • Learn hot topics in State tax audits
  • State tax litigation updates

 

7. FASB Update
Tom Groskopf, CPA, Barnes Denning
  • Stay current with the latest developments and initiatives undertaken by the FASB in standard-setting and regulatory updates.
  • Gain insights into upcoming changes in accounting standards and their potential impacts on financial reporting practices.
  • Understand key FASB projects, priorities, and their implications for stakeholders, enabling better-informed decision-making and compliance efforts.

 

8. Tax Efficient Investing
Tom Carline, Everhart Advisors
  • Understand how different investments are taxed when held in different accounts
  • Learn to manage, defer and reduce tax exposure on investments
  • Gain insights into creative tax savings strategies for individuals and business owners

 

9. Drivers of the Next Economy

David Staley, Associate Professor of History, Design, Educational Studies, The Ohio State University

  • Identify and describe the key demographic, technological, and geographic drivers influencing the next phase of economic development.
  • Analyze how rising life expectancy, fertility trends, and workforce participation rates interact to shape labor markets and economic potential.
  • Assess the impact of automation and deglobalization on future patterns of production, trade, and employment.
  • Understand the role of social capital and happiness as emerging economic metrics beyond GDP.
  • Evaluate the role of cities as dominant engines of growth in an increasingly localized but interconnected world.

 


 

 

 
 
August 7, 2025  |  December 4, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.  |  8 credits (Multiple)
  
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