CPE Catalog & Events
Webcast: Surgent's Reasonable Suspicion
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Webcast
1.0 Credits
The psychosocial, physiological, and behavioral aspects of drug and alcohol abuse in the workplace The impact of drug and alcohol abuse on workplace safety The possible connection between performance issues and drug or alcohol abuse The role of documentation in reasonable suspicion testing Confidentiality concerns in the testing process
Webcast: Surgent's Managing up the Ladder
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Influence, persuasion, and power Navigating without position power
Webcast: 2025 Galasso Arizona & AICPA Regulatory Ethics Update
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
Webcast: Audit Risk Assessment in Plain English
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Overview of Audit Risk Assessment AICPA's clarified Risk Assessment Standards SAS 145 Assessing the Entity's Environment
Webcast: Overcome Your Obstacles to Abundance
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
How to know your specific obstacles to becoming rich Why people use poor marketing and investment strategies, and how to overcome such limitations The most effective marketing methods, and how to implement them The power of being super motivated, and 3 methods to keep you motivated long term towards your goals Having a vision for your business and life that will keep you on the right track
Webcast: K2's Advanced Topics In Power BI
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Creating formulas in Power BI with Data Analysis Expressions Adding Key Performance Indicators to your Power BI reports and dashboards Managing security in Power BI Publishing your reports and dashboards to Apps and Content Packs for easy sharing with other team members
Webcast: Surgent's Management Fundamentals
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
What it takes to be effective as a manager Exploring the challenges that get in the way Looking at the driving forces that have evolved how managers engage with employees today Motivating employees of multi-generations Twelve practices that can be adopted to influence employees to become more engaged Identifying what it takes to develop employees Delegation and accountability
Webcast: Case Studies in Accounting Fraud 25-26
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
Major financial statement frauds, including sales and other types of revenue, estimates, earnings management and cut-off Major misappropriation of asset fraud schemes, including skimming, larceny, and additional schemes that occur in inventory, payables and other accounts Review of cases involving common fraud schemes (New cases will be discussed in 2024)
Webcast: Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax 25-26
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Webcast
1.0 Credits
Taxable terminations Mismatch between available exemption and GST and utilizing excess GST GST elections on Form 709 and automatic allocations
Webcast: Surgent's The Accountant as the Expert Witness
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Becoming qualified as an expert witness Best practices for testifying at trial Understanding the different roles accountants can play in litigation Working with attorneys to prepare and present a case at trial The role of experts in commercial versus personal injury litigation Confidentiality orders Compensation for expert witnesses Preparing for and attending depositions Daubert challenges to experts Expert reports The role of experts in antitrust, securities litigation, and professional liability cases Credibility as a witness
Webcast: 2025 Business Tax Credits
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Webcast
1.0 Credits
Research & Development Tax Credit Work Opportunity Tax Credit COVID-19 Tax Credits Opportunity Zones GO-Biz Incentives Employment Training Panel
Webcast: Nonprofit Taxation Rules and Form 990
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Recent tax legislation and developments related to non-profit entities Special sections of Form 990 and various form related changes Nonprofit tax exemption applications Excess compensation excise tax Excess parachute payment excise tax Unrelated business income tax Required profit motive
Webcast: Surgent's Tax Research
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Tax code hierarchy Organization of an Internal Revenue Code section Special rules for IRC citation Citing other primary authority Private letter rulings Primary vs. secondary authority Secondary sources of authority Steps in the tax research process Research memoranda
Webcast: Surgent's Tax Loss Limitations Imposed on Individuals and Pass-Through Entities
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Webcast
3.0 Credits
How to calculate a partner or S corporation shareholder’s basis Form 7203 and an S corporation shareholder’s basis The at risk basis rules and Form 6198 The passive activity loss limits The Section 461(l) loss rule The net operating loss limitation rules The Section 163(j) business interest limitation
Webcast: Surgent's Accountability and Action
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
Defining three critical elements: responsibility, empowerment and accountability, and how they work together to create results Designing and using clear agreements that provide clarity Skills for holding yourself and others accountable for results, no matter what Knowing where you are in the accountability game... what you do/don’t do well
Webcast: Surgent's Excel for Accountants: Using Excel to Cleanse and Prepare Data
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
Automation capabilities of Excel The “Get & Transform” Tool Using “Get & Transform” for flattening, splitting and combining data, unpivoting summarized data, and combining CSV exports
Webcast: Surgent's Purchase and Sale of a Residence: Critical Tax Issues
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Webcast
2.0 Credits
General rules relating to the sale of a residence under § 121 Sale of a taxpayer’s main home Qualifying for a partial exclusion of gain on the sale of a home How a taxpayer meets the residence requirement Meeting the look-back requirement Separated, divorced, and widowed taxpayers Work-related moves and unforeseeable events Inherited homes and homes received in a divorce Impact of business or rental use of home on the gain exclusion Reporting gain or loss on the sale of a home
Webcast: April 2026 AI Update: ChatGPT, Prompt Query & What's Coming
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Webcast
1.5 Credits
Recent changes in major AI languages and their uses New developments in chatbot and prompt query tools for CPAs Major AI breakthroughs in the past 6 months Recommended AI tools for CPAs
Webcast: Surgent's Managing People Through Motivation
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Webcast
4.0 Credits
What it means to engage people; discuss the meaning of motivation by getting to the core of what impacts your employees’ productivity Get your employees charged; find out what makes them tick through examining and understanding some of the classics in motivational theory Learn how to drill down to what truly motivates your employees Using the C.A.R.E. model to improve employee motivation through case studies
Webcast: ProActive Response Group De-Escalation Training
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Webcast
1.2 Credits
Definition of De-Escalation Recognizing Anger Situational Awareness LOWLINE Technique MR EBS Technique Posturing Controlling the Environment