CPE Catalog & Events

Annual Conference (Virtual)

Annual Conference (In Person)

Federal Tax Update for Individual with Greg and George WEBCAST

Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.

Construction Contractors: Accounting and Auditing

Contract accounting and revenue recognition from contracts with, customers, Contractor financial statements, Working with a surety, Audit planning, procedures, and reporting, Long-term contracts

Federal Tax Update for Business with Greg and George WEBCAST

Important new cases. Crucial legislative developments. Review administrative releases including revenue rulings, revenue procedures and notices.

K2’s Better Productivity Through Artificial Intelligence And Automation Tools

• Practical opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and automation in business settings• Potential risks associated with using AI and automation, including inherent ethical issues• Pros and cons associated with tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, Power Automate, and Zapier

Surgent's Top 10 Tax Topics This Year

Tax guide to exit planning, Partnership considerations: section 754 elections and section 743, C to S corporation conversions, Recurring basis issues. At-risk basis rules and Form 6198, New developments relating to IRS audits, Status of audits for high-income and high-net-worth individuals, The 2023 Dirty Dozen, Residency and domicile, Crowfunding: basic economics and related tax consequences, Choosing the right business entity

K2’s Ethics And Technology

• Understanding the differences between ethics, morals, and laws• Key technology issues that can impact ethical behavior in businesses• Examples of potential ethical conflicts precipitated by modern technologies

K2’s Excel Charting And Visualization

• Understanding the best types of visualizations to use in specific situations• Creating compelling visualizations using Excel• Adding interactivity to your Excel-based visualizations

Federal Tax Update - Individuals (Form 1040) with Pat Garverick WEBCAST

This session is a comprehensive review of the Federal individual income tax provisions and tax forms/schedules that will affect the 2024 tax returns and 2025 tax projections with an emphasis on newly enacted income tax legislation, court cases, and IRS guidance. Each participant will receive a comprehensive individual income tax reference manual that includes numerous practice aids, real world examples, new Federal income tax forms and schedules, and Pat Garverick's Quick Reference Chart. Topics include but are not limited to: Discuss the most recent individual income tax legislation passed to date, Review numerous individual income tax provisions related to business (i.e., sole proprietors and owners in pass through entities) including but not limited to the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction, Schedule 461(l) business loss limitations, and depreciation. Cover issues related and any changes to the various taxes (i.e., income tax rates, capital gain tax rates, self-employment tax and alternative minimum tax (AMT), 3.8% net investment income tax), Brush up on other topics such as income filing status, personal exemptions, itemized deductions, exclusions from income, adjustments to income, rentals, passive activity rules and individual income tax credits (e.g., child tax credit and dependent care credit), Walk through the NEW final required minimum distribution (RMD) regulations, Look at any changes to the Form 1040 and other related schedules and forms.

K2’s Mastering Advanced Excel Functions

• Powerful new functions and features in Excel, such as XLOOKUP and Dynamic Arrays• How to use “legacy” features and functions such as AGGREGATE• Creating effective forecasts in Excel

K2’s Microsoft 365/Office 365 - All the things You Need to Know

• Understanding the Microsoft 365/Office 365 subscription model• Working with vital 365-based apps and services• Using Teams as your primary collaboration tool• Taking advantage of lesser-known features and services in a Microsoft 365/Office 365 subscription

CFO - Corporate Performance Management

The 4 Topics Discussed. Corporate Performance Management. Poor strategy execution frustrates many executives as their organizations struggle with performance improvement, making decisions using intuition in the absence of hard data. Corporate performance management (CPM) seamlessly integrates many techniques including strategy maps and a balanced scorecard. Together they align manager and employee behavior, actions, and priorities using key performance indicators (KPIs) with specific targets to enable accountability. Effective Management Accounting. Critics have claimed that traditional managerial accounting is at best useless and at worst dysfunctional and misleading. Most line managers do not trust their management accounting data. 21st Century management accounting develops cost/unit metrics that are useful for budgeting, cost analysis and control. Current methods bring truly accurate fact-based costing visibility, tracing costs and identifying cause-and-effect relationships rather than broadly allocating overhead. This information provides the ability to reveal the true profit margins for products as well as for specific sales channels and customers. Removing the barriers caused by your current management accounting techniques can provide huge rewards. Driver-Based Budgeting. The annual budgeting process is often criticized as a fiscal exercise done by the accountants that is obsolete soon after it is published, prone to gamesmanship, cumbersome, not being volume sensitive, and disconnected from the strategy and needed risk mitigation spending. You can resolve these deficiencies using capacity-sensitive driver-based expense projections. Driver-based budgeting allows for quick scenario planning and far easier analysis of a growing organization whose future may look nothing like today. The budget can be periodically refreshed to create rolling financial forecasts extending beyond the fiscal year end. Learn how managerial accounting can become managerial economics. Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. Volatility and complexity are the new normal. Most organizations are drowning in data but starving for information. The finance and accounting function has the opportunity to leverage Big Data and the continuum of analytics - descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive. All are useful for better decision making. Collecting, validating, and reporting data is not the same thing as analyzing information where we can glean valuable, actionable insights. In some ways the finance function is many years behind other disciplines such as marketing, sales, and supply chain managers, in applying analytics. How can the CFO's function catch up? Understand how Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA) can help you make sense of your organization's data.

Federal Tax Update - C and S Corporations, Partnerships and LLCs (Forms 1120, 1120S and 1065) with Pat Garverick WEBCAST

This session is a comprehensive review of the Federal business income tax provisions and tax forms/schedules that will affect the 2024 tax returns and 2025 tax projections with an emphasis on newly enacted income tax legislation, court cases, and IRS guidance. Each participant will receive a comprehensive business income tax reference manual that includes numerous practice aids, real world examples, new Federal income tax forms and schedules, as well as Pat Garverick's Quick Reference Chart. Topics include but are not limited to: Discuss the most recent business income tax legislation passed to date, Review numerous business income tax provisions including but not limited to the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction; changes to NOLs, 461(l) business loss limitations, Schedule163(j) business interest deduction limitations, accounting method changes, depreciation, fringe benefits and entertainment expenses, Brush up on issues related to compensation, distributions, liquidations, selfemployment taxes and retirement plans, Look at any changes to the Forms 1120, 1120S, and 1065 and other related schedules and forms.

K2’s Next Generation Excel Reporting

• Identifying weaknesses in traditional reporting processes• Using leading-edge features in Excel to improve reporting practices• How to work with Power Query to solve common reporting challenges• Adding Slicers and Timelines to your Excel-based reports

CFO - The Effective CFO

Enhancing Sales: Work with Sales to Drive Result. Sales and Accounting are not alike. In many organizations the two functions are at odds with each other, causing wasteful infighting. Many times, sales will undercut the accountants and vice versa. Sometimes this is inadvertent and sometimes not. Both functions should work together to achieve superior financial performance. We must take the lead and develop a better relationship with the sales function and the sales team. Oftentimes the sales incentive plans cause friction and result in counterproductive behaviors. If Accounting and Sales were to work together effectively, then net income, revenue and sales incentives would all increase. Thinking differently about how to work together will dramatically enhance financial performance. Imagine at least a five percent increase in the bottom line? We will discuss how. Working together yields superior results. Topics Discussed. Understanding the sales function and sales team. Differing backgrounds, expectations, and motivations. Developing strong relationships. Credibility and trust. How to ascertain what Sales really needs. Effective incentive plans that are understood by the sales team. Becoming the key support people for sales. Communicating value and profitability. Explaining risk. Understand the large impact that accounting has on sales. Understand how to enable sales to enhance financial results in your organization. This seminar includes two (2) case studies for group discussion. Prerequisite: At least six (6) months of professional financial statement analysis experience and at least six (6) months experience working with sales or business development. Growth Opportunities for CFOs: Value Added CFOs 2 Finance credits Many CFOs place too much emphasis on external financial and statutory compliance reporting for government regulatory agencies and not enough on corporate performance management (CPM) methods including internal management accounting. The former is for valuation (e.g., inventories and COGS). The latter is for "creating wealth value" to support better decisions. This course provides tools and information for how CFOs can transition from bean counters to bean growers. The best CFOs not only keep score, which is necessary, but they enable the organization to score more, which is much more valuable. Ready to be an Effective CFO? Skills to Succeed 2 Business Management and Organization credits With all the buzz about the additional responsibilities of CFOs today, what are the essential skillsets for success? How do you excel when you are spread so thin? Becoming the multi-skilled CFO companies are looking for requires you to balance traditional responsibilities with new demands. How do you utilize your key relationships and your team to fill the gaps and make sure nothing slips through? To be effective requires a shift in the way financial leaders think and approach their day - rather than a never-ending chase after new skillsets. Thinking differently about how to accomplish the broad spectrum of CFO responsibilities is a key lesson in your essential lifelong learning. We will review many tactics to help you become even more effective. Measuring and Reporting - ESG and Sustainability 2 Finance credits ESG broadly covers many of the non-financial issues every organization faces. The use of ESG as a term however conjures images to many of tree-huggers protecting rare species at the expense of jobs and growth, requirements that well-qualified candidates are not hired or passed over for promotion because they do not meet "diversity standards" and that companies are constrained by restrictive laws and regulations from conducting their business. ESG is not about limiting growth or profitability. It is about measuring non-financial information and using that information to make companies more efficient and more profitable. ESG is not a fad that will go away but a method of viewing our organizations so that they can be better and more profitable. Topics Discussed • Defining sustainability • Environmental risks and opportunities: How your organization deals with natural resources • Social risks and opportunities: How your organization deals with people • Governance risks and Opportunities: How your organization deals with laws, regulations, and controls • Defining and measuring environmental, social and governance metrics (ESG) • Reporting on ESG metrics and your organization's efforts

The Complete Guide to the Preparation of Form 1041

How to prepare a Form 1041, Specific issues regarding a decedent's estate, Specific issues regarding a trust,Understanding the basics of Subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code, How to comply with the tax compliance issue, Case studies regarding reading an estate document, Understanding of distributable net income (DNI), Understanding of income in respect of a decedent (IRD), Line-by-line instruction

Rocky Mountain Technology Conference Virtual

K2’s Case Studies In Fraud And Technology Controls

• Key fraud risks impacting businesses today• Examples of fraud and the monetary impact on victims• How to create, implement, and assess technology-based internal controls to reduce the probability of becoming a fraud victim

K2’s Artificial Intelligence For Accounting And Financial Professionals

• Exploring AI applications in accounting and finance• Understanding AI features in everyday tools• Embracing the future: AI's+F22G22