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12 Credits
Surgent’s This Year’s Best Income Tax, Estate Tax, and Financial-Planning Ideas (SSTX154/25)
With different tax rates for individuals and trusts, tax planning takes on more importance. New legislation increases the importance of generating new ideas for financial planning and saving for retirement. The purpose of this course is to explore pr...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Disclosure Requirements for SEC Form 8-K (SSAA186/25)
This course provides an overview of the disclosure requirements for SEC Form 8-K, the broad form used to notify investors in U.S. publicly traded companies of certain events that may be important . This course provides an overview of the key disclo...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Real Estate Taxation: Critical Considerations (SSTX204/25)
This course is a 'deep dive' into many aspects involving the taxation of real estate for the mid-level practitioner moving into this complex area. You will deepen your understanding of the complex considerations and strategies that individuals must n...
2 Credits
Surgent’s U.S. GAAP vs. IFRS – Rev Rec & Business Combinations (SSAA284/25)
This course provides an overview of the similarities and key differences between the revenue recognition and business combination standards issued by the FASB and IASB. While these standards are similar in many material respects, there are notable di...
6 Credits
Surgent’s Microsoftr PowerPointr 2016: Getting Started (SSMG128/25)
This course guides you through creating and opening PowerPoint presentations; inserting, reorganizing, and deleting slides; applying a design theme and switching between different PowerPoint views. You learn how to insert various types of content on ...
6 Credits
Surgent’s Microsoft 365: Exploring Useful Excel Functions (SSMG101/25)
This course is a one-lesson intermediate level course that guides you through using the Quick Analysis feature to quickly insert row and column totals and creating formulas using Financial, Date & Time, Math & Trig, Statistical, Lookup & Reference, D...
16 Credits
Surgent’s GAAP Hot Topics – What You Need to Know (SSAA215/25)
This course provides an overview of several of the key accounting and reporting topics within U.S. GAAP. This includes a discussion of accounting for business combinations, revenue recognition principles, and leasing transactions. This course also ...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Avoiding Deficiencies in Peer Reviews: Focus on Engagement Quality (SSAA190/25)
With the AICPA's heightened focus on enhancing audit quality, increased oversight of the peer review process and the auditor's overall responsibility to provide high quality services, the focus on compliance with professional standards has never been...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Estate and Life Planning Issues for the Middle-Income Client (SSTX203/25)
Clients think that estate planning only applies to the very rich. In truth, there are many issues of critical concern for which the middle-income client needs to plan. This course is a must-attend for all Accounting and Financial Professionals who wo...
4 Credits
Surgent’s The Essential Multistate Tax Update (SSTX177/25)
With the largest overhaul of the federal income tax code in 30 years and the repeal of the physical presence nexus standards for sales tax in the Wayfair case, the states are working fast and furious to overhaul their tax laws. As some states scrambl...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Max the Tax: Crowdfunding (SSOT124/25)
Your client, Aida, wants to share an amazing new product and service with the world, but she needs funding. The product, a sensory jacket, syncs with virtual reality (VR) apps so people can use more of their senses in VR experiences. Ask relevant que...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Guide to Payroll Taxes and 1099 Issues (SSTX147/25)
Employment taxes are often overlooked as an area where more planning may be effective. Payroll taxes have become an increasing burden for the average business and IRS penalties for noncompliance have risen dramatically in recent years. As a result, t...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Auditing Not-for-Profit Entities: Superior Skills for an Effective and Efficient Audit (SSAA149/25)
It's been said that you cannot fit a square peg into a round hole. The same principle holds true for audits of not-for-profit entities. You cannot simply apply a standard commercial audit approach to the audit of a not-for-profit entity and expect a ...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Winning the Fraud Battle in the Digital Age: Prevention and Detection (SSAA157/25)
The focus of this course is reducing the overall risk of fraud. To that end, instruction will cover the factors that play a role in turning honest employees into fraudsters. Discussion will touch on integrity and ethics, as well as how the reactions ...
6 Credits
Surgent’s Securing a Comfortable Retirement (SSOT130/25)
This course gives CPAs the knowledge to help their clients plan for retirement by evaluating how much retirement income they will require and planning for how to reach their retirement goals.
1 Credit
Surgent’s Max the Tax: Entity Selection (SSTX187/25)
A client is starting a new business and needs advice on whether to choose an S or C corporation. She is seeking support to determine the most advantageous entity from a tax-efficiency perspective. Participants will first ask relevant questions about...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Taxation of the Mobile Workforce (SSTX242/25)
Today's workforce looks a lot different than it used to. With more people working from home and across state lines, employers must examine withholding and unemployment laws in a new light. In this course, we will examine tried and true rules in this ...
12 Credits
The Best Individual Income Tax Update Course by Surgent (SSTX122/25)
This highly informative course comprehensively covers all the latest tax law developments. The focus is on individual taxation and discussion of the planning opportunities practitioners need to understand to help clients respond effectively. You will...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Handbook for Mastering Basis, Distributions, and Loss Limitation Issues for S Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships (SSTX150/25)
The most difficult concepts to master when dealing with flow-through business entities are the basis and distribution concepts. Major error and malpractice issues occur if the CPA does not fully understand the impact of these rules. This course is de...
2 Credits
Surgent’s How to Settle an Estate – An Overview (SSTX152/25)
This course discusses the legal issues in probating and contesting a will, plus the practical issues involved when settling an estate - marshaling of assets, payment of creditors, and distribution and accounting to beneficiaries. Inventory of estate assets is also discussed.
8 Credits
Surgent’s Construction Contractors: Critical Accounting, Auditing, and Tax Issues (SSAA169/25)
Accounting and financial reporting for construction contractors may be the most difficult area to be in compliance with the various standards. Construction engagements are, in many instances, more "dangerous" than most lines of business due to the ma...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Preparation and Compilation Engagements Under the SSARS (SSAA259/25)
Be the go-to person on financial statement compilation and preparation engagements. Specifically designed for those performing preparation and compilation engagements, this course will provide you with a hands-on application for performing preparatio...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Latest Developments in Governmental Accounting and Auditing (SSAA219/25)
This year is indeed another year of significant change in the world of governmental accounting and auditing. Time is valuable, and it's hard to stay current in today's rapidly changing environment. Let us save you time and effort in staying current t...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Preparing Individual Tax Returns for New Staff and Paraprofessionals (SSTX197/25)
The objective of this course is to train new staff accountants, data processing employees, paraprofessionals, and bookkeepers to prepare a moderately complex federal individual income tax return (Form 1040). Over the years, thousands of new staff hav...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Government and Nonprofit Frauds and Controls to Stop Them (SSAA202/25)
George Washington once wrote, "We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience." The cost of fraud, dearly paid by governments and nonprofits, is too severe...