Financial managers rarely get fired due to lack of GAAP or tax knowledge. They get fired because they fail at the people side of their job. An accountant with good people management skills can rise to CEO, but if you can't manage and develop people, your career scope will be very limited. ...
Fraud Happens; and it can happen to your organization. The public expects accountability professionals to be the first line of defense against fraud. To meet this expectation, accountants, internal auditors, external auditors, and risk management professionals need to develop the skills needed...
* This course is #4 in the Microsoft PowerBI series of webinars. Click button in Program Content section below to see suggested viewing order. * Excel is the #1 data analysis tool for accountants, yet many accountants have never learned the basics of data analysis using Excel or the tools...
*Qualifies for Yellow Book CPE credit* "Newspaper Materiality"... It's not pretty when the media splashes a fraud on the front page that CPAs missed. Sallah is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter for the Miami Herald. He will provide a detailed analysis of major financial fraud...
The President and Congress have delivered a revolutionary tax reform plan, and Surgent will bring you all of the details critical to you and your practice. These changes will affect your clients this coming season, and they will look to you to understand the issues and develop a plan that serves...
Every business needs capital, and capital has a cost. Providers of debt and equity demand a return and the combination is the cost of capital for the business. This session discusses how to calculate the cost of capital, how to use it to make superior business decisions every day and some...
Businesses would rather avoid thinking of the possibility of failure. However, any management team that is skilled will know the warning signs of trouble as well as the steps to fix a struggling business. This course will prepare a CFO or Controller to recognize business problems and implement...
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in federal, state, and local governments. Exemptions from both minimum wage and overtime pay include executive,...
Fraud Happens; and it can happen to your organization. The public expects accountability professionals to be the first line of defense against fraud. To meet this expectation, accountants, internal auditors, external auditors, and risk management professionals need to develop the skills needed...
Not yet a CPA, Mike left a small CPA firm to become the controller of a private company that manufactured supplements. Concerned about the sales practices, he thought his accounting methods were harmless fixes to the company's growing pains - but the judge disagreed. The fraud was so outrageous...
This course will provide a comprehensive review of all of the features available to administer your SharePoint sites, including setting up and managing users and permissions. If you will have the responsibility for managing the use of SharePoint in your organization, this course will prove...
Incredible story of how a high school graduate stole $53 MILLION from a town of 16,000 people with a $10 million budget. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions either during or after the event.
Specifically designed for preparation, compilation, and review practitioners and their staff, this course will provide you with a comprehensive review and hands-on application for performing financial statement preparation, compilation, and review engagements. You will learn the ins and outs of...
Most review techniques developed by professionals are self-taught and fine-tuned via experience. Yet how does one start? The purpose of this course is to give both new and seasoned reviewers additional and advanced procedures via a multitude of checklists to more thoroughly review various tax...
A detailed analysis of the calculations related to determining an S shareholder's tax basis for S corporation shares using the Form 1120S, Schedule K-1 information. An illustrative example will demonstrate how the process works, as well as the many potential pitfalls. This course qualifies...
The Accounting and Auditing Update is designed to provide its participants with a comprehensive, in-depth review of what's happening at the FASB, AICPA, and other professional bodies who may impact accounting and auditing this year, including FASB Statements and Interpretations, Statements on...
We have all made what we thought were `small' decisions that had a HUGE result. Gary Zeune, CPA will ask Gallagher how his `immaterial' choices sent him to prison. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions either during or...
A discussion of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act provisions that impact non-profit entities. This course qualifies for PTIN credit. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions either during or after the event.
The Accounting and Auditing Update is designed to provide its participants with a comprehensive, in-depth review of what's happening at the FASB, AICPA, and other professional bodies who may impact accounting and auditing this year, including FASB Statements and Interpretations, Statements on...
You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. Unfortunately, the first impression many people have when they begin to use Office 365 is that it is confusing. The information presented in this course will help you avoid the frustration of working with Office 365 without the...
