The self-assessment exam consists of 12 questions based on the material within CPA Voice issue. 

 You must receive a grade of  70% or better to pass. You may take the exam  up to five times , as needed, until you pass. The exam expires 13 months after the CPA Voice publish date.

The self-assessment exam consists of 12 questions based on the material within CPA Voice issue. 

You must receive a grade of  70% or better to pass. You may take the exam  up to five times , as needed, until you pass. The exam expires 13 months after the CPA Voice publish date.

9 part course that includes dynamics of group decision-making, preventing groupthink, prioritizing your alternatives, using voting techniques, using the normal group technique, using a decision matrix, using a decision tree, and other decision tools.

"The Art of Authenticity," based on the best-selling and award-winning book by Dr. Karissa Thacker, is a micro-learning performance support tool that can transform you and your team to achieve higher levels of engagement and productivity. Key training points include understand the definition of “authenticity” at work; learn why authentic behavior is important for success today; discover why your quirks can actually be positive attributes; uncover the secrets of your various “selves”; learn how to balance and process input from your team; find out how to encourage others to be more open and transparent; learn how to have “honest conversations”; and more!

Review the objective of this GASB statement which is to enhance comparability in accounting and financial reporting and to improve the consistency of authoritative literature by addressing practice issues that have been identified during implementation and application of certain GASB statements.

"In December 2019, the AICPA Auditing Standards Board (ASB) issued Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 138, Amendments to the Description of the Concept of Materiality, and Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 20 of the same title to respectively amend various AU-C and AT-C sections in AICPA Professional Standards. 

Understand the amendments to the description of the concept of materiality which aligns the materiality concepts discussed in AICPA Professional Standards with the description of materiality used by the U.S. judicial system and other U.S. standard setters and regulators. "

"In December 2019, Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 19, Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements was issued. SSAE 19 supersedes SSAE 18 AT-C section 215 of the same name and also amends certain provisions of SSAE 18 section 105, Concepts Common to All Attestation Engagements. 

Examine the flexibility that SSAE 19 provides to a practitioner performing an agreed-upon procedures engagement in the following areas; assertion requirement, development and sufficiency of procedures,understanding with engaging party and general use. "

This standard update was issued in January 2020 meant to clarify accounting for certain equity method investments. Dive into how the new guidance addresses accounting for the transition into and out of the equity method and measuring certain purchased options and forward contracts to acquire investments.

Power BI Desktop is a new stand-alone tool that adds visualization to your data. This course focus on learning the Power BI Desktop interface, connecting to data sources and creating the visualizations. We will demonstrate the creation of each of the various visualizations and the various options related to each. 

Learning Objectives: 

Identify components of the Power BI Desktop interface 

Use Power BI Desktop to connect to data sources 

Use Power BI Desktop to create interactive visualizations of your data

In this module, we are going to examine the importance and role of planning, budgeting, and forecasting. We are also going to look at process analysis and process performance issues. To help you better understand these concepts, we will look at these concepts through the lens of a business in its first year in operation and again at the end of its second year.