Today's IT leaders manage far more than technology. Explore practical strategies for AI governance, Microsoft 365 security, incident response, recovery planning, and organizational resilience through real-world examples and leadership discussions. Leave with ideas you can immediately apply within your organization.
Create a clear, practical roadmap for implementing multi-factor authentication and password managers across your organization. This course outlines best practices, common adoption challenges, and rollout strategies to strengthen security while minimizing user resistance.
AI can accelerate the work. Your leadership determines its value.Join Doug Van Dyke, CEO of Leadership Simplified, for a practical, energizing program designed for CPAs, CFOs, and accounting professionals ready to rethink how work gets done.Move beyond individual productivity gains to explore how human expertise and AI capabilities can work together across your team. Discover...
Those in a supervisory or managerial role must create a culture of discipline, where a high priority is placed in accomplishing responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. This module provides best practices for various areas that support this culture of discipline, including time, team, and project management.
In the early days of a small business, the owner is often putting every dime they have back into the business. Once the business starts to make money, the question often arises as to how to get money out of the business in the most tax-advantageous way possible. In this course, we will explore this...
While accountants deal with many complicated code sections and analytical issues, perhaps the most difficult thing that every financial professional deals with is how to create a good office environment. Utilizing discussions and case studies, this course will explore how to become a better teammate. We will learn strategies for how to form better relationships...
You have probably heard the saying that "employees quit managers - not companies." Perhaps this has never been more true than now - when many people are working from home, and the only contact they often have with their employer is through their manager. There can be no doubt that one of the most important...
True financial planning is a collaborative process between a client and advisor that encompasses all aspects of an individual's financial life. However, what does the financial planning process look like and what should the approach be? By examining academic theory and illustrative case examples, this course will explore how financial planning changes over a client's...
This series will provide valuable tips and techniques from an experienced auditor to successfully design and perform financial statement audits in "real-life" circumstances. Practical understanding of principles and standards can result in a high-quality, insightful, and profitable engagement.
Properly designed and effectively operating internal control over financial reporting is critical for preventing, or detecting and correcting, material misstatement. This module will describe how to satisfy the audit requirements related to taking a control reliance strategy by testing the operating effectiveness of internal controls, while promoting an effective and efficient financial statement audit.
Those in a supervisory or managerial role must create a culture of discipline, where a high priority is placed in accomplishing responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. This module provides best practices for various areas that support this culture of discipline, including time, team, and project management.
AI-generated answers and spreadsheets can look convincing even when important requirements have been missed. Explore how attention, context, and execution can diverge, then consider practical Excel controls for checking whether the results match the intended task.This presentation answers the question:How can I use spreadsheet controls to detect gaps between what I intended and what actually...
Inventory observations are often a right of passage for audit staff. This course will cover the basics of auditing inventory, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to inventory. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff should perform, and also walk through how to conduct a physical...
Single Audits are a critical area of focus within the profession and require a thorough understanding of the Uniform Guidance and its unique requirements for auditing federal awards. This course provides a clear, practical introduction to the performance and reporting standards that distinguish Single Audits from other types of audit engagements. Participants will explore foundational...
Stay current on key developments affecting audit and attestation engagements with this comprehensive update on what's happening at the AICPA. This course begins with the next phase of quality management, with a particular focus on firms' monitoring and remediation responsibilities and what those requirements mean in practice. Participants will also review recent and upcoming standards...
Cash is essential to every business, and is often one of the first accounts audit staff are exposed to. This course will cover the basics of auditing cash, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to the cash balance. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff should...
It is imperative that audit staff understand the fundamentals of expenses & payables. This course will cover the basics of auditing expenses, accrued liabilities, and other payables, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to the expenses & payables balances. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff...
Governmental accounting differs significantly from commercial and nonprofit accounting standards and requires a distinct approach to financial reporting. This course introduces the foundational principles of governmental accounting, including fund accounting concepts and the modified accrual basis of accounting. Participants will explore the structure and purpose of governmental fund financial statements as well as the government-wide...
Practitioners who provide non-audit services must strike the right balance between complying with relevant professional and regulatory standards while mitigating litigation and other practice management risks. This course contains many best practices for managing the accounting, reporting, and performance issues associated with the attest services of compilations and reviews where reports are issued, as well...
Ensure sensitive files are shared securely while meeting retention and compliance obligations with confidence. This course covers best practices for secure file sharing, access controls, and retention policies to reduce risk and protect organizational data.
When deadlines tighten and the stakes rise, technical expertise is only part of the equation. The quality of your decisions—and how you communicate them—can shape financial outcomes, team confidence, and stakeholder trust.Join Doug Van Dyke, CEO of Leadership Simplified, for an engaging, practical program designed for CPAs, CFOs, and accounting professionals who make consequential decisions...
The sheer number of sources of tax law can be overwhelming when you are first starting off as a practitioner. How do you differentiate between each one? What does each of them do? And what happens when there are conflicts between them? Through simple, plain language explanations and examples, this course gives the new practitioner...
Answering clients' tax questions accurately and on time is a key challenge for tax practitioners. Through simple, plain language explanations and examples, this course will help practitioners perform tax research more efficiently by describing the structure of the primary sources, highlighting the difference between primary and secondary sources and describing the steps in the tax...
Accounting estimates are an approximation of a monetary amount in the absence of a precise means of measurement. The risks of material misstatement for areas of estimation tend to be higher due to the dependence on future events and the intended actions of management. This module will discuss tips and techniques for gathering sufficient appropriate...
Properly designing, documenting and evaluating results of analytic review procedures is critical for performing an effective and efficient audit engagement. This module will provide the tips and techniques necessary to gather sufficient appropriate audit evidence to support conclusions using analytic procedures common to financial statement audits.
Sampling is an important method for determining the extent of testing controls, testing compliance, and tests of substantive details. It allows the auditor to apply procedures to less than 100% of the population yet extend results to project likely conclusions about the entire population. This module will describe the proper process for both attribute testing...
This comprehensive course provides a focused update on key auditing developments affecting GAGAS and Single Audit engagements. The course integrates recent changes to the Yellow Book issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office with major updates to Uniform Guidance and related Single Audit requirements. Participants will begin with an overview of significant revisions to the...
The Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative has identified inadequate or nonexistent audit documentation as one of the most significant issues facing the profession today. Over half of the engagements reviewed by the AICPA failed to meet the requirements of AU-C 230, highlighting a critical need for improvement. This course addresses common misconceptions about audit documentation and...
A spreadsheet can produce plausible numbers while hiding broken links, unexpected formulas, or circular references. Learn practical ways to inspect workbook structure, expose formula logic, and investigate errors before relying on the results.This presentation answers the question:How can I determine whether an Excel workbook is working as intended?Topics typically covered• Workbook orientation: Workbook Statistics, Navigation...
Upper-level reviewers have significant responsibilities for ensuring high-quality audit engagements. Unfortunately, deficient audits have serious negative consequences for both the CPA firm and the profession as a whole. This module highlights the most important considerations for those at all levels of the engagement team with quality control responsibilities on audit engagements.
The financial statement auditor's overall responsibility is to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial statements are materially misstated due to fraud or error. The difficulty is that there are inherent limitations related to detecting fraud due to deliberate schemes to conceal the intent to deceive, such as...
Those in a supervisory or managerial role must create a culture of discipline, where a high priority is placed in accomplishing responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. This module provides best practices for various areas that support this culture of discipline, including time, team, and project management.
Stay current on significant developments affecting Single Audits with this focused update on recent regulatory and professional guidance. This course reviews the 2024 Uniform Guidance overhaul, including the increase in the Single Audit threshold to $1 million and other changes impacting audit planning and execution. The course also examines Appendix B of the 2025 GAS/Single...
The Uniform Guidance identifies COSO and the Green Book as best practices for internal controls in governmental audits. This course provides a comprehensive review of the COSO framework, including its 2013 update, and explores its application to the Green Book. Attendees will learn to recall the five components and 17 principles of internal control, understand...
Preparation, compilation, and review engagements continue to receive heightened attention in peer review. This course examines the most common deficiencies identified in peer reviews of SSARS engagements, with an emphasis on practical compliance and engagement quality. Participants will explore frequent problem areas in preparation, compilation, and review engagements and discuss why these deficiencies occur. The...
Be prepared to act quickly and confidently when a security incident impacts finance operations. This course provides a clear, finance-focused incident response checklist to help limit damage, meet reporting obligations, and support an effective recovery.
Learn how to use AI to draft and troubleshoot spreadsheet formulas more efficiently while ensuring results are correct. This clinic focuses on prompting techniques that generate formulas plus built-in validation steps to catch errors and logic issues. You'll leave with practical examples you can confidently apply to real-world spreadsheets.
Deadlines don’t pause for change—and neither do client expectations. For CPAs, CFOs, and accounting professionals, the challenge is advancing new systems, processes, and priorities while protecting accuracy, engagement, and team capacity.Join Doug Van Dyke, CEO of Leadership Simplified, for a practical program on leading change your team can sustain. Learn to distinguish resistance from confusion,...
Inventory observations are often a right of passage for audit staff. This course will cover the basics of auditing inventory, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to inventory. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff should perform, and also walk through how to conduct a physical...
Technology adoption often comes with resistance, but it's possible to transform this challenge into an opportunity for growth. This course explores the journey from resistance to resilience in embracing new technologies, focusing on overcoming barriers and ensuring successful implementation. Participants will examine cutting-edge audit technologies, including AI, data analytics, and automation, and learn how to...
Reinforce learning and reduce risk by taking the right actions after a phishing simulation. This course outlines effective follow-up steps to address vulnerabilities, improve employee awareness, and strengthen your organization's overall security posture.
As a practitioner, you know that sometimes small business owners make little distinction between their own pocketbook and the company's pocketbook. For this reason, distributions from smaller partnerships can be frequent. It is important for us, as their advisors, to know what the tax impact is for these distributions - which ones will be fine,...
Quality management is important. Every CPA firm that provides audit and other attest services must undergo a third-party quality control review. This session will provide you with the tips on how to avoid common quality control deficiencies in all services that are subject to peer review.
Quality management is important. Every CPA firm that provides audit and other attest services must undergo a third-party quality control review. This session will provide you with the tips on how to avoid common quality control deficiencies in all services that are subject to peer review.
This course will serve as an introduction to conducting effective walkthroughs to gain an understanding of the client's transaction processes as well as identifying internal controls within each process. This course will review the procedures, questions to ask, and documentation requirements of walkthroughs. It will also include real-world examples of the red flags that may...
Yellow Book and Single Audit engagements are routinely selected for peer review and continue to be areas of heightened scrutiny by peer reviewers and federal oversight agencies. This course examines common deficiencies identified in GAGAS and Single Audit engagements, with a focus on understanding why these issues arise and how they can be avoided. Participants...
AU-C Section 315 requires the auditor to gain an understanding of the entity and its environment and the entity's internal controls in order to design appropriate audit procedures. This course will review the key requirements of COSO which is one of the most widely used internal control frameworks. We'll also review the limitations of internal...
Step into the heart of the Cretaceous Conservatory for an unforgettable inventory observation adventure! In this immersive simulation, you'll travel to a remote island where the inventory isn't just counted, it's alive. As an auditor responsible for ensuring accuracy in the company's dinosaur-development operations, you'll face wild risks, navigate complex inventory procedures, and confront the...
Charts can make financial results easier to interpret, but they also create maintenance when source data grows or reporting needs change. This session covers building appropriate charts, keeping chart ranges current, and using a waterfall chart to illustrate changes in financial results.This presentation answers the question:How can I build charts that communicate financial results and...
Learn how to use AI to draft clear, professional client emails while protecting confidentiality and avoiding risk. This clinic walks through practical, ready-to-use prompts that help you save time without sacrificing accuracy or tone. You'll leave with examples you can confidently apply to everyday client communications.
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