This course focuses on explaining the theory behind major issues and trends, enabling professionals to understand the most important aspects of relevant technical standards related to accounting and financial reporting.
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.
Peer review deficiencies and professional liability claims result from both audit and nonaudit services. This course will provide best practices for avoiding legal liability and quality control concerns for a wide variety of professional services offered by public accountants.
This course covers ethical frameworks and rules regarding CPA practice and responsibilities. This course will meet the two-hour annual ethics requirement for SC CPAs.
In today's competitive marketplace, retaining talented employees is becoming increasingly difficult. A solid benefits program can make a difference in the fight for talent - but only if those benefits actually matter to the employees you are trying to hire! Through statistics and case studies, this course will explore what benefits are most valuable to...
Learn how to build and defend well-supported tax positions while minimizing exposure to penalties and preparer risk. This course focuses on effective tax research techniques and documentation practices that withstand scrutiny and support ethical, defensible client advice.
Having sufficient assets to live a comfortable and secure retirement is one of the concerns that many people face. This concern cannot be resolved without having a solid retirement plan. In this course, we will discuss the foundation of most people's retirement planning - qualified plans. We will discuss the types of qualified plans, how...
Financial planning for a small business is inherently tied with the owner. When you plan for the future of the company, you are planning for the individual as well. Trying to get the owner additional cash from his/her company is a common issue faced by many advisors. However, it is important to realize that the...
Sampling is often identified as a common audit deficiency in peer review. This course will review when is sampling applicable and basics of planning a sample. We'll then focus on the application of sampling in financial statement audits with a look at sampling for substantive procedures. We'll look at the use of monetary unit sampling...
When auditing management's accounting estimates, increased professional skepticism is necessary as there is always the potential for bias in areas of increased subjectivity & complexity. This course will demonstrate procedures to test the process used by management to develop estimates, as well as walk through common examples of accounting estimates that are included in the...
Performing engagements in accordance with Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS), commonly referred to as the "Yellow Book," involves additional reporting, ethics, and performance requirements that go beyond those outlined in AICPA Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS). This course provides an overview of the guidance found in the Yellow Book and explores its relationship with...
This course provides an efficient update on recent and upcoming accounting standard-setting activity issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). The course focuses on Accounting Standards Updates (ASUs) effective for December 31, 2026 year-ends for public companies, private entities, and not-for-profit organizations.Participants will also review issued ASUs with future effective dates, along with high-level...
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