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Exploring the 10 Types of Leadership: Styles and Strategies for Success
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $39
Overview of ten distinct leadership styles Adapting leadership to different situations, teams, and organizational culture Characteristics, strengths, and limitations of various leadership style Self-reflection and identifying personal leadership tendencies Flexibility and adapting leadership approaches when circumstances change Strategies for team engagement and performance improvement
Key Financial and Economic Issues Facing the Financial Executive
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $49
Understanding the current economic issues for the CFO/Controller to include: Strategic, operational planning and risk management Regulatory, Fiscal and Monetary policies impact on the organization Managing the finances of the organization during periods of rapid changes Managing risk in an uncertain economic climate
What If Your Client Didn't Take Reasonable Compensation
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Webinar
1.00 Credits
Member Price: $55
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 choiceHow to be proactive and head off common reasonable compensation issues before they happenExplore strategies for cash management if cash isn't available at year endExplore what’s at stake when reasonable compensation isn’t paid timely
Awesome Business Lessons from the Past: Learn from the Best!
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The six methods to get others to like you How to learn what others want What are twelve ways to win others to your way of thinking? How to destroy your enemies What are the fundamental principles of Henry Ford’s success? Focus on technology, training and ‘Scientific Method’ Value of training and education The need for fun What are the thirteen steps necessary to plan for success? All plans must adjust to changing realities What are the traps to avoid? How to use these principles to move your organization forward
Benefits and Best Practices for Telework
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Communication Business Management
Financial Accounting for Related Party Transactions
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
FASB codification provisions for transactions with related parties, including business owners and special purpose entities Compares and contrasts those rules with the AICPA financial reporting framework for small and medium-sized entities Reviews the tax accounting related taxpayer standards Several real-life situations illustrate the various authoritative standards and discuss the consequences of failing to comply with those standards
Drive Results with Metrics
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
Performance Metrics Budgets
Ethical Performance Management
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Definition and Benefits of Ethical Performance ManagementSetting Standards/Goal settingPreparing and Conducting the Appraisal InterviewLegal Considerations in Performance ManagementAvoiding Rater BiasFeedback and Coaching
Ethics: 10 Crucial Qualities of High Character CPAs
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics covered in this class include:Discover why the ten crucial qualities of high-character CPAs are essential to your successLearn how to evaluate these qualities in job candidates and why you must do so
SEC Case Studies: Ethical Dilemmas in Finance and Accounting
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $89
The major topics that will be covered in this course include:Introduction to Ethics and Ethical DilemmasEthical Codes and Professional StandardsFraud and the Fraud TriangleEthical Decision-Making ModelsFinancial Statement Manipulation TacticsCash Flow and Key Metrics Misrepresentations
Surgent's The Road Ahead: Critical OBBBA Changes Impacting Accounting and Finance Professionals
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Webinar
2.00 Credits
Member Price: $119
Marginal tax rates effective in 2025 and beyond The QBI deduction Qualified residential interest Child Care Credit Miscellaneous itemized deductions, including the educator deduction Rollovers from 529 plans to ABLE accounts Additional expenses treated as qualified higher education expenses for purposes of 529 accounts Termination of credits for environmentally clean autos and expenditures Other timely topics
Operations Level Internal Control
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $149
The major topics covered in this course include:An overview of controls that drive proceduresConsiderations for procedural control developmentUnderstanding and controlling risk that arises when organizations change
Tax Planning for Small Businesses - Tax Staff Essentials
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Webinar
4.00 Credits
Member Price: $139
The tax life of a business Selecting a business entity type Section 199A and the qualified business income deduction Accounting methods Compensation of owners and hiring family members Reasonable compensation Depreciation, including Section 179 and bonus depreciation Transactions with owners Buy-sell and noncompete agreements Retirement plan strategies for late-stage business owners Starter 401(k) plans and SIMPLE plan enhancements Provisions of H.R. 1, commonly referred to as OBBBA
Divorce Concerns: Taxes, Valuation, Finances, Retirement, & Obligations 26-27
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
• Divorce and ongoing payment issues dealing with alimony and child support• Documents protecting a client going forward, including pre-nuptials, cohabitation agreements, post-nuptials and many others• Advanced income tax issues, including like-kind exchanges, filing status issues, credits and asset sales• Advanced retirement issues, including dissecting qualified, personal retirement, and nonqualified plans, QDROs, past and defunct plans, and using retirement assets to equalize assets• High-level valuation issues, including closely held business, stock redemptions, partnership redemptions and stock options
Financial Statement Disclosures 26-27
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
• General requirements• Balance Sheet, income statement and cash flow• Stockholders" equity• Business combination and consolidation
Pass-Thru Entity Owners Schedule K-1 Analysis 26-27
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $329
• Detailed coverage of any new legislation affecting basis computations and distributions and changes to the schedule K-1s (including the Form 7203—S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations)• Line-by-line analysis of the Schedule K-1s to determine how the items affect an S shareholder's stock and debt basis and a partner/member's outside basis and where the items get reported on Federal individual income tax return• The three loss and deduction limitations on the owner's individual income tax return (i.e. basis, at-risk and other Form 1040 limitations)• How cash or non-cash distributions affect the basis calculations and whether or not they are taxable to the owners• Compare the tax treatment of the sale of a shareholder's stock in an S corporation and a partner's interest in a partnership• What constitutes debt basis for an S corporation shareholder under the final regulations• The tax ramifications of repaying loans to S corporation shareholders and on open account debt• How recourse and non-recourse debt affect a partner or member's basis calculations and amount at-risk
K2’s Excel Tips, Tricks, And Techniques For Accountants
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $250
Fundamental Excel techniques all accounting and financial professionals should know and use Creating date-based calculations in Excel How to create Excel templates Key options you should enable in Excel Linking data in Excel
Surgent's Employer's Handbook: Legal, Tax, and Health Care Issues
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
Hiring and firing issues – What questions cannot be asked in an interview; how to document employee performance; establishing an annual review system; when an employer may and may not fire an employee, and much more Employment contracts – An analysis of the legal and planning issues in structuring employment contracts; when noncompetition agreements will and will not work Employment issues in the economy – Telecommuters and other special situations Legal liability issues – Recognition of age discrimination, sex discrimination, FLSA issues, minimum wage, overtime, sexual harassment, and more Fringe benefit issues – COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care Medical plans – Who is a full-time employee?
Surgent's Industry Accountant Key Performance Metrics
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
Key tools used by businesses and financial professionals across the globe to measure performance Detailed, real-world examples of businesses utilizing these tools
Surgent's Single Auditing Made Simple
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Webinar
8.00 Credits
Member Price: $279
The key requirements and responsibilities related to the schedule of expenditures of federal awards and major program determination How the auditor determines the direct and material compliance requirements, obtains an understanding of and tests the related internal controls, and performs compliance testing The development and reporting of findings in the schedule of findings and questioned costs Additional performance and reporting responsibilities