This course will start with the Accounting Standard Updates effective in 2024 for public entities, private entities, and nonprofits. We'll then switch our attention to the items coming down the pike, including a look at the projects identified by the FASB's Invitation to Comment: Agenda Consultation. We'll also review year 2 considerations for leases including modification accounting. Then we will switch gears, switching to the audit side of the house. We'll review the impact of the changes to auditing group audits as well as the status of the AICPA's quality management project management. This course will keep auditors up to date on the work of the ASB.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Technology Hot Topics for Audits.
• Accounting Standard Updates
• Projects identified by the FASB's Invitation to Comment: Agenda Consultation.
• Year 2 considerations for leases including modification accounting.
• The impact of the changes to auditing group audits
• The status of the AICPA's quality management project management.
• The current work of the ASB.

Who will benefit:

Accountants in public practice and industry

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

How does a forensic accountant calculate financial losses? Federal courts have approved various ways to calculate losses ranging from net worth method of proof to the expenditures method. Each method of proof depends on the available facts to the forensic accountant. This presentation will focus on the various court approved methods of proof, when to use them, and how to calculate the total loss.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

• The role of methods of proof in forensic accounting.
• The various types of methods of proof approved by the courts.
• The weakness and strengths of the methods of proof.
• The formulas in calculating methods of proof.
• Applying the formulas in various circumstances.

Who will benefit:

CPAs and forensic accountants.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

For the past two decades the trend has been to move away from brick and mortar offices and have a greater number of people work or telecommute from home. Because of the upheaval caused by recent events, the rate of this move has been accelerated. This has and will continue to create control challenges and organizations must work to address these. Such things as moving from time based employee value to task completion based measurement and the ability to drive needed inter-company communication are just a sample of the issues with which entities must contend. This session looks at the benefits and pitfalls of workers that telecommute. It then discusses important risks and controls to consider as this trend continues and evolves in the business world.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics covered in this course include:

• The benefits and pitfalls of remote employees.
• How to maximize the value provided by distance workers.
• Policies, procedures, and control measures designed for a more geographically dispersed workforce.

Who will benefit:

Accounting and other business professionals that are tasked with supporting and controlling remote workers.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

This program addresses the role of client internal controls for balancing efficiency and effectiveness in a risk-based audit. Practical insights regarding an auditor's assessment of the risk of material misstatement when auditing financial statements of non-issuers will be explored, with particular emphasis on internal controls of small-to-medium clients. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available for your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Specific matters auditors should consider when obtaining and documenting an understanding of the client's internal control system
• Development of a tailored audit approach that considers the potential reliance on internal controls
• Guidance for establishing an adequate basis for reliance on internal controls of less formal, smaller clients

Who will benefit:

CPAs in public practice and members in industry.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Many accountants desire to have a quick overview of only the most current issues in accounting and financial reporting. This course will provide an executive summary of the most important changes in U.S. GAAP.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• New accounting standards.
• The impact on Financial Reporting.
• Hot topics in financial reporting.
• Current and emerging US GAAP requirements.

Who will benefit:

Accountants looking to stay up to date on current standards and hot topics.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

In this webinar, accountants will discover how to double their firm's revenue through CFO and advisory services. Many accounting firm owners are stuck in what we call The Accountant's Trap. It's where the firm owner is trapped working for low fees, dealing with high-demanding clients, all the while being burnt out on compliance and transactional work. To make matters worse, these firm owners can't raise their fees because there is always another accountant or bookkeeper willing to do the work for less -- not to mention all the tech companies trying to get into our space.

Does this sound familiar? If so, this webinar is for you.

This course is for any practice owner looking to transform their practice - and double their revenue - by offering a productized CFO/Advisory service. We'll cover the systems you need to transform your practice and the services you should offer to double your firm's revenue.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• The average revenue of most accounting firms.
• The number of advisory clients you'll need to double your firm's revenue.
• How much you should be charging for advisory services.
• How we define CFO and advisory services.
• What business owners really want from their advisor.
• The three types of CFO/Advisory firms.
• How to get clients to pay you approximately $2,500 per month for advisory services.
• The three systems you'll need to add a CFO/Advisory service to your firm.

Who will benefit:

Accountants, CPAs, bookkeepers, enrolled agents.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Most financial leaders would agree that budgeting is easy when business and the economy are stable. When revenues and expenses are expected to remain the same, the process becomes merely an exercise in carrying over what was done before to the current year. However, what happens when we are not sure about how the market will react to our product? What happens when the competitive landscape changes? In this course, we will discuss budgeting techniques and considerations when business lacks stability. Through a combination of theory and real-world examples, we will explore how to build flexibility into our budget - so that it can inform and drive decision-making when we don't quite know what is ahead.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

• Budgets vs. Forecasts
• Cyclicality
• Core Earnings & Sustainable Growth
• Identifying Key Forecast Drivers
• Reasonableness in Forecasting
• Approaches to Budgeting
• Budgeting Variances
• Horizontal Analysis
• Flexible Budgeting

Who will benefit:

CFOs & Controllers who are involved in the budgeting process.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

If you use Outlook on a daily basis to process your email, chances are pretty good that you are missing out on a lot of opportunities to improve your efficiency in composing, processing and organizing your messages. There are many different features in Outlook that often get overlooked, even though we are working in the app all day, every day. John Higgins, a strategic advisor to the profession on Microsoft 365 deployment, will review numerous tips and features to improve your productivity in Outlook. You will learn many time-saving, practical ways to improve the quality of your email message.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

• Using Quick Parts to streamline message composition.
• Eliminating inefficient back and forth appointment scheduling with the Bookings app.
• Using category codes and contacts to send bulk emails.
• Sending emails to Teams and OneNote.
• Organizing your inbox with custom views, rules and folders.
• Mastering the search tools to find emails quickly.
• Review of key option settings to maximize email productivity.

Who will benefit:

Anyone who uses Outlook.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

This course will provide a detailed analysis of how to determine a partner's tax basis for a partnership interest, with an explanation of the use of both "inside" and "outside" basis determination. An illustrated example with filled in forms will demonstrate how the process works and the potential pitfalls.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Explain the use of both "inside" and "outside” basis determination.
• How to calculate tax basis capital accounts, including when the entity is formed, including the impact of contributed property.
• Clarify the importance of partnership capital accounts and partnerships debt on partner's tax basis.
• Explanation of how basis is impacted distributions and by sale and/or liquidation of the partnership interest.
• Comprehensive example to illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process.

Who will benefit:

CPAs working in public accounting firms and/or working for partnerships.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.

Join us for an insightful presentation featuring John Higgins, a renowned technology advisor to the CPA profession, who has assisted many firms with Microsoft 365 deployment. Discover how to leverage the Microsoft 365 suite of applications to unlock new efficiencies and opportunities within your business organization or CPA firm. Don't miss this chance to supercharge your operations with cutting-edge tools! Whether you are working in public practice or business and industry, this event will provide you with a return on investment many times greater than your investment to attend.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Appreciate the full potential of Microsoft 365 to drive efficiency in your business
• Learn best practices for harnessing the power of Microsoft 365
• Design your Teams app setup to meet the unique attributes of your business
• Use SharePoint and OneDrive to organize your files and share them securely internally and externally
• Organize your thoughts, meeting notes and other content centrally in OneNote
• Manage your projects, large and small, with the Planner app
• Deploy the Stream app to document processes efficiently and effectively

Bonus Content: Understand how to harness the power of AI with Microsoft Copilot

Who will benefit:

Anyone working with Microsoft 365 and wants to learn how to get more out of it.

This webcast is hosted on CPA Crossing platform. Attendees will receive instructions on how to attend the webcast via e-mail.