CPE Catalog & Events
Rewards & Recognition Strategies for Leaders
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Whether you are responsible for managing 1 employee or 20, your leadership can make or break your team. Learn practical leadership strategies that you can implement when you return to your office. In today’s competitive market, it’s more imperative than ever that as leaders we are inspiring and motivating our teams to success. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1Program Level: Basic
Emerging Risks and Resilience - How Accounting and Finance are Leading the Way - Part 3: Blockchain and Financial Risks
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Online
1.20 Credits
Member Price: $39
This is Part 3 of 5 in our Emerging Risk and Resilience Series for Accountants and Finance The rapid evolution of technology, globalization, and regulatory frameworks has introduced a range of emerging risks that are transforming the fields of accounting, finance, and auditing. Innovations such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data analytics are redefining traditional business models while creating new challenges related to data integrity, cybersecurity, and ethical decision-making. In accounting and finance, the growing reliance on automated systems raises concerns about vulnerabilities, algorithmic bias, and the potential for misinformation. Auditors face heightened expectations for real-time assurance, transparency, and adaptability to new reporting standards, including sustainability and ESG disclosures. Geopolitical instability, economic volatility, and evolving regulatory pressures add layers of uncertainty to financial reporting and audit quality. This four-part seminar series explores these emerging risks, analyzes their implications for professionals and organizations, and highlights proactive strategies for risk management, continuous learning, and technological competency. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1.2Program Level: Basic
Functional Approach to Employee Benefits
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Online
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $79
Discusses the Functional Approach to Employee Benefit Plan design and provides HR professionals with a clear blueprint on how to develop a benefits strategy that is aimed at addressing employee needs. The unit will also identify pathways to develop communication strategies to ensure employees view benefit programs as compensation. The end of the unit will introduce some of the different medical plan types and how they vary in terms of how total rewards are delivered. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1.5Program Level: Intermediate
Better Forecasts: Be a Better Predictor
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Imagine being able to see into the future with confidence. The ability to be a great forecaster is not innate but learned. By examining great forecasters, we can learn to improve our ability to predict the future. We will examine best practices and current research to improve our ability to predict events that will affect our business. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Intermediate
K2's Choosing Your CPA Firm Tech Stack
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
In today's fast-evolving landscape, CPA firms face a flood of new tools promising efficiency and innovation. This course helps practitioners assess the real return on investment (ROI) from their technology stack, &-comparing suite-based solutions with best-in-breed applications and examining the latest Agentic AI and Generative AI offerings. Attendees will learn how to evaluate productivity, integration, and strategic alignment to maximize firm performance. Whether upgrading your stack or validating your current tools, this session offers practical insights for tech-savvy decision-making and smarter technology investments tailored to the unique needs of accounting professionals. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Update
K2's Optimizing Your CAS and Advisory Tech Stack
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Client Accounting Services (CAS) has become a cornerstone of modern CPA firms, offering opportunities for enhanced client relationships, recurring revenue streams, and streamlined operations. This course provides accounting professionals with practical guidance on implementing and optimizing CAS within their firms. Participants will explore the foundational elements of CAS, including service offerings, pricing models, and client communication strategies. The course delves into the technology tools essential for CAS, including accounting software, workflow automation, and reporting platforms. It offers insights into best practices for managing client expectations and delivering consistent, high-value services. In addition, participants will examine case studies of successful CAS implementations, review current trends affecting CAS, and identify critical steps to build a scalable CAS practice aligned with their firm's goals. The course also addresses the importance of data security, governance, and compliance in providing CAS, ensuring ethical and professional service delivery Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Update
Navigating Mergers & Acquisitions with AI: The Future of Deals
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Mergers and acquisitions can be complex, risky, and filled with unexpected challenges—but they don’t have to be overwhelming. This course provides a clear and practical overview of the M&A process, helping professionals understand the critical stages of evaluating opportunities, structuring deals, conducting due diligence, and navigating post-transaction integration. Participants will learn practical techniques that help organizations avoid the common traps that derail many transactions while improving the likelihood of successful outcomes. The session also explores how emerging AI tools are beginning to enhance deal analysis, uncover deeper insights, and support better decision-making throughout the M&A process. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 4Program Level: Intermediate
The Essential FASB Update with Renee Rampulla
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
This course is essential and designed to assist those who want to remain up to date on guidance issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). Learn about the accounting requirements involving crypto assets, income taxes, joint ventures, governmental grants, interim reporting, and hedging. Hear about the results and findings of the FASB's post implementation review report involving the lease standard, and much more. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 4Program Level: Update
Emerging Risks and Resilience - How Accounting and Finance are Leading the Way - Part 4: Managing Supply Chain Risks, Data Analytics, and Busines
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
This is Part 4 in our 5 part series on Emerging Risk and Resilience - How Accounting and Finance is Leading the Way The rapid evolution of technology, globalization, and regulatory frameworks has introduced a range of emerging risks that are transforming the fields of accounting, finance, and auditing. Innovations such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data analytics are redefining traditional business models while creating new challenges related to data integrity, cybersecurity, and ethical decision-making. In accounting and finance, the growing reliance on automated systems raises concerns about vulnerabilities, algorithmic bias, and the potential for misinformation. Auditors face heightened expectations for real-time assurance, transparency, and adaptability to new reporting standards, including sustainability and ESG disclosures. Geopolitical instability, economic volatility, and evolving regulatory pressures add layers of uncertainty to financial reporting and audit quality. This four-part seminar series explores these emerging risks, analyzes their implications for professionals and organizations, and highlights proactive strategies for risk management, continuous learning, and technological competency. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Basic
Leases Accounting under Topic 842 – Answers to FAQ After Implementation
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Lease accounting under FASB ASC 842 is now fully effective for all entities. Transitioning to new GAAP always leads to implementation issues and concerns. This course will answer the most common questions asked related to the latest lease accounting and financial reporting requirements after adoption and transition. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Basic
Decoding Medical Plan Structures: Fully Insured vs. Self-Funded
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $79
Learn the history of medical plans and how the American health insurance system developed into it's current state. This section will help HR and Finance professionals actually understand the mechanisms behind traditional fully insured plans and their self funded plan counterparts. It will also introduce some key concepts around Stop Loss, Third Party Administration, and Medical Plan Underwriting Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1.5Program Level: Intermediate
Emerging Risks and Resilience - How Accountants and Finance are Leading the Way - Part 5: Governance, Culture, and Regulatory Risk Pressures
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $99
This is Part 5 in our series of Emerging Risks and Resilience - How Accountants and Finance are Leading the Way The rapid evolution of technology, globalization, and regulatory frameworks has introduced a range of emerging risks that are transforming the fields of accounting, finance, and auditing. Innovations such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data analytics are redefining traditional business models while creating new challenges related to data integrity, cybersecurity, and ethical decision-making. In accounting and finance, the growing reliance on automated systems raises concerns about vulnerabilities, algorithmic bias, and the potential for misinformation. Auditors face heightened expectations for real-time assurance, transparency, and adaptability to new reporting standards, including sustainability and ESG disclosures. Geopolitical instability, economic volatility, and evolving regulatory pressures add layers of uncertainty to financial reporting and audit quality. This five-part seminar series explores these emerging risks, analyzes their implications for professionals and organizations, and highlights proactive strategies for risk management, continuous learning, and technological competency. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Basic
Advanced Cost Accounting: Eliminate Calculation Distortions
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Organizations that use primitive costing methods make predictable mistakes, allocating too much cost to easy, high-volume "gravy" products and too little cost to difficult, low-volume "dog" jobs, putting an organization with inferior information at a significant competitive disadvantage. The secret to being the “smart competitor” is learning how to deal with overhead. This session will show you how to assign 16 key overhead categories. Whether you work in a wholesale, retail, healthcare, service or manufacturing business, you will find this session invaluable. Get your cost right, and you will be able to give the "dogs" to your competitors and keep the "gravy" for yourself. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Advanced
Design Flexible Work Options To Attract & Retain Your Workforce
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
With increasing competition for finding the best qualified candidates and retaining today’s workforce, it’s more important than ever to consider flexible work options in the workplace. We will review the most popular flexible work options your company could consider implementing: telecommuting, compressed work weeks, flexible hours, phased return from leave of absence, job sharing, early release days, and more! We’ll discuss the benefits of this talent management strategy, including increased productivity, decreased costs, better work-life “integration”, and increased employee engagement and satisfaction. You’ll learn how to propose flexible scheduling to your executive team, including how to logistically roll out this program. Whether you’re in a manufacturing plant, corporate headquarters, or retail industry, you can apply any of these flexible work options to your organization. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1Program Level: Basic
Cost and Pricing Models: Boost Your Bottom Line
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Online
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
If sales increase, so should profits. Yet, the opposite result often leaves executive’s scratching their heads. When organizations work with inferior cost information, they make mistakes in four specific situations. Bad information causes sellers to overprice easy, high-volume work and under-price difficult, low-volume work. This session discusses how to use activity-based costing to build accurate costing models that consider far more than just the labor and materials necessary to provide goods and services. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 2Program Level: Intermediate
Using Psychology Secrets to Love your life and Get More Done
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The new field of Positive Psychology offers many methods and ideas for helping people be happier, healthier, and better at what they do. Nowadays, the ability to be at your best and get clients to enjoy working with you is critical to growing your business or getting ahead. Studies show that happy people make $750,000 more over the course of their life than unhappy people, have half the number of sick days, and live 9 years longer. In this fun and fascinating seminar, you’ll learn how to not only be happier, but help your clients be happier in working with you. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 4Program Level: Basic
State of AI
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Online
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Artificial Intelligence is moving fast and increasingly adopted in businesses, significantly improving efficiency in many industries, including finance, retail, healthcare and manufacturing. What is real and what is just hype? What should business leaders consider as they lead their organizations in the adoption of this technology? Why is AI governance the key to success? This webinar will cover some of the major advancements in artificial intelligence in 2025 and key insights on where AI is headed and recommend both strategic and tactical steps to take as we move into 2026. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1Program Level: Intermediate
The Psychology of Fraud
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Online
1.50 Credits
Member Price: $79
We all know that Fraud Happens. But, why? Why do people we think we can trust let us down? This session will explore the minds of white-collar criminals and examine some recent high-profile fraud cases. Why did they do it? How did they do it? What were the warning signs? If you think that fraud cannot happen to your organization, this session might give you pause. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 1.5Program Level: Basic
Audit Skills for Beginners
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Online
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
Learn the basic skills new staff need to hit the ground running and efficiently complete assigned tasks, including what new auditors are expected to know and do, including the nature, timing, and extent of common audit procedures. Focus on why certain procedures are performed and perform typical procedures. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 4Program Level: Basic
Preparing and Reviewing Workpapers – Essential Tips for Avoiding Deficient Audit and Other Attest Engagements
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Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $250
Workpapers are the primary support for findings, conclusions and opinions on any audit or other attest engagement. This course will provide the essential tips and techniques for ensuring workpaper documentation is of a high quality, yet efficient, nature. Delivery Method: Individual webcast CPE Credit: 8Program Level: Basic