Freelance work and other non-permanent employment arrangements are becoming increasingly popular ways for people to earn a living. Although these non-traditional activities offer novel, flexible ways to earn income from diverse sources, they also introduce nuanced recordkeeping, reporting, and attestation issues. We investigate characteristics of the gig economy, employee-versus-contractor considerations, bookkeeping, regulatory compliance, and external reporting considerations. We also explore best practices for CPAs who fulfill the role of trusted advisor for gig economy clients.

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:

• Characteristics unique to the gig economy
• Independent contractor and employee classification considerations
• Recordkeeping considerations for independent contractors
• Accounting and reporting issues for gig economy participants
• Audit and attestation for clients who participate in the gig economy
• Tax and regulatory considerations
• The CPA as a trusted advisor for independent contractors

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.

Financial statement forecasting is essential for predicting a company's future financial health, guiding strategic decisions, and attracting investments. By analyzing historical data, market trends, and assumptions, businesses can anticipate risks and opportunities, enabling effective planning, resource allocation, and long-term stability and growth.

- Forecasting Process: This involves projecting future income, expenses, and resources. By leveraging historical data and market insights, businesses can predict financial health, shaping strategic planning, investment decisions, and risk management.

- Forecasting Profitability: Predicting future earnings informs strategic decisions, investment planning, and resource allocation. It facilitates effective budgeting, cash flow management, risk assessment, and enhances attractiveness to investors for sustainable growth.

- Forecasting the Balance Sheet: Analysts forecast to predict a company's future financial position, assessing growth potential, solvency, and capital structure. This informs investment decisions, strategic planning, and risk management, ensuring financial stability and growth.

Join our webinar to explore these concepts with a practical example, guiding you through the forecasting process and demonstrating its practical applications in real-world scenarios.

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:

• Introduction to Financial Statement Forecasting
• Overview of the importance and benefits of forecasting for strategic planning and investment attraction.
• The Forecasting Process: Steps to project future income, expenses, and resources using historical data and market trends.
• Analyzing Historical Data: Methods for leveraging past financial data to inform future projections.
• Incorporating Market Trends: How to integrate market insights into financial forecasts.
• Forecasting Profitability: Techniques for predicting future earnings and their implications for budgeting, cash flow management, and investment planning.
• Forecasting the Balance Sheet: Approaches for predicting future financial positions, including growth potential, solvency, and capital structure

Who will benefit:

Finance and accounting professionals interested in a better understanding of financial analysis

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

Are you a new advisor handling S Corp clients, or perhaps a seasoned professional facing this common scenario: "My S Corp client didn't take reasonable compensation last year. Now what?" Knowing that reasonable compensation isn't just a tax obligation, but a strategic financial decision, you need to be armed with expert knowledge to help your client navigate this situation. Join us to discuss IRS regulations, understand preventive measures, and address challenges within the year.

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:

• Review best practices to help your client evaluate if an S election is an appropriate choice
• How to be proactive and head off common reasonable compensation issues before they happen
• Explore strategies for cash management if cash isn't available at year end
• Explore what’s at stake when reasonable compensation isn’t paid timely

Who will benefit:

CPA & EA practitioners who advise S Corps on the issue of Reasonable Compensation who are interested in learning about what to do if a client didn't take reasonable compensation in a previous year.

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

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, accounting professionals are expected to be more than just number crunchers, they are expected to be insightful interpreters of data. In an era where data is king, this course is your gateway to becoming a savvy data analyst, giving you a competitive edge in your field. We will guide you through the intricacies of making complex data analysis approachable and engaging.

You will learn the all important Data Analysis Process Flow that will take you from collecting data all the way to making insightful decisions based upon your data. We will explore the basics of data modeling that will allow you to access data from multiple sources and use sophisticated calculations to create our data metrics. You will learn how to create interactive dashboards, perform sophisticated reporting, and uncover deep insights from your data.

Whether you're looking to streamline your reporting process, enhance your data visualization skills, or make more data-driven decisions, this course is tailored to meet those needs. It's not just about learning a tool; it's about enhancing your professional identity as a forward-thinking accounting professional.

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

• Data Analysis Process Flow: An introduction to the Data Analysis Process Flow and how it is your pathway to becoming a Data Analysis Expert.
• Data Modeling: A comprehensive discussion of building a data model and calculating metrics.
• Data Visualizations: An understanding how visualizations can present data in a more insightful and impactful manner.

Who will benefit:

This course is ideal for anyone who is looking to become a data analysis expert.

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

Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, was released in 2009. After 15 years the cryptocurrency market consists of over 5,000 unique coins/tokens with a market capitalization of over 1.5 trillion as of 1/1/24. This course will provide an update on the cryptocurrency market and the blockchain technology that supports it.

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:

• Update on the cryptocurrency marketplace
• Cryptocurrency exchanges - the good, the bad and the ugly
• Overview of cryptocurrency taxation regulations
• The technology behind cryptocurrency - Proof of stake, Layer 2, wallets and more
• Blockchain technology update

Who will benefit:

Anyone who is interested in getting up to speed on the current state of the cryptocurrency marketplace.

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

This course explores actual fraud circumstances through the lens of potential prevention. We will examine how selected frauds were accomplished and consider what internal controls may have prevented fraudsters from achieving their nefarious acts. Then we will switch gears to an interactive, case-based discussion that asks participants to reach their own conclusions by analyzing facts in concert with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and other sources of ethical guidance. This course ultimately provides practical, action-oriented insight that can be implemented by accounting professionals in both public practice and industry.

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

The major topics covered in this course include:

• Examination of actual frauds
• Discussion of internal controls that could have prevented frauds
• Contemplation of epiphanies for your own professional scenarios.
• The AICPA Code of Professional Conduct
• Other elements of professional conduct and compliance with professional standards

Who will benefit:

CPAs in public accounting, members in industry, and other business professionals who seek practical insight regarding fraud prevention and ethical behavior.

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

A detailed analysis of the calculations related to determining a shareholder's tax basis for S corporation shares and loans. How to use the Form 1120S, Schedule K-1 information for basis determination. An illustrative example demonstrates how the process works, as well as the many 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:

• Discuss the calculation of basis when the entity is formed including the impact of contributed property
• Explain the importance of shareholder loans to the entity
• Uses a comprehensive example to illustrate the mechanics of the basis determination process
• Schedule K-1 Basis and Form 7203
• Discuss how basis is impacted by distributions of corporation property
• Explain how basis is impacted by sale/or liquidation of the S corporation interest
• Discuss how S corporation losses impact Form 1040 Schedule E reporting
• Show how to get from the Schedule K-1 information to the basis calculations

Who will benefit:

CPAs working in public accounting firms and/or working for S corporations.

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

Just about every company, no matter its size or the types of activities it undertakes, is at greater risk because of all the types of fraud that can be be carried out electronically. Potential perpetrators can be operating internally or externally and the scope of the damage that occurs is almost never limited to cyber-assets. While threat awareness is improving, there are still too many owners or top level executives that underestimate the scale of the issue. In this session, we delve into the types and the nature of many electronic defalcation schemes. The material then explores measures that organizations can implement to help stop these activities and add additional layers of security.

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 actuation of online and other cyber frauds
• Fraudulent acts that are initiated electronically
• Automated and employee driven methods that can reduce cyber-fraud risk

Who will benefit:

Accounting and other business professionals with a need to understand online fraud.

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

After a false start in 2022 when it failed to pass through Congress, the Secure Act 2.0 was passed in a flurry of year-end legislation. This two hour program will cover the important changes in savings and distributions of retirement plans that impact individuals. Employers will also need to consider how Secure Act 2.0 will the administration of existing plans or the creation of new ones. This course will provide a concise look at these hot topics.

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:

• Implications for individuals
• Changes to the Saver’s Credit
• Changing the required minimum distribution rules for Roth 401(k)s
• Changes to required beginning dates for required minimum distributions of retirement plans. 
• Penalty-Free Withdrawals for Certain Emergency Expenses
• Special provisions for firefighters and military personnel spouses 
• Increases in catch-up contributions 
• Impact on 529 plans
• Opportunities for student loan payment matching
• Implications for Employers
• Starter § 401(k) plans for small employers
• Requiring automatic 401(k) enrollment
• Improving worker access to emergency savings
• Increasing part-time workers’ access to retirement accounts
• Statute of Limitations on excise taxes imposed on overcontributions to retirement plans
• Multiple employer §403(b) plans
• Automatic portability provisions
• Other changes in the administration of company retirement plans

Who will benefit:

This course is suitable for Corporate tax and finance executives, directors, managers and staff, CPAs, CAs Enrolled Agents, accountants, attorneys and business/financial advisors who work with and advise businesses and individuals that have these tax implications.

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

This Masterclass is a one-hour training exclusively for CPAs and accountants. Rely less on tax season and use your expertise to help business owners have a better future!

Designed for CPAs, but also applicable to enrolled agents and accountants, this webinar covers the steps necessary to effectively transform a tax or accounting practice into an advisory service. We explore what it means to be a CFO/advisor to small-to-medium sizes businesses and what qualifications are necessary to offer such a service. We will also cover how to find and convert leads and how to price and package services, including combining advisory services with the firm's current offerings.

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 steps necessary to effectively transform a tax or accounting practice into an advisory service.
• What it means to be a CFO/advisor to small-to-medium sizes businesses.
• What qualifications are necessary to offer an advisory service.
• How to find and convert leads and how to price and package services, including combining advisory services with the firm’s current offerings.

Who will benefit:

Accountants, CPAs, bookkeepers, and enrolled agents.

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