2 Credits
Surgent’s Review of Form 709 – Gift Tax Return (SSTX104/25)
This course will enable practitioners to understand the basic practical issues of preparing the gift tax Form 709. This course covers the disclosure requirements and the information necessary to properly prepare the form.
4 Credits
Surgent’s Fundamentals of Public Charity Taxation and Form 990 (SSTX144/25)
If you work for or with not-for-profit entities and have questions about the IRS Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax, and the related schedules, this is the course for you! The program focuses on common issues that professionals w...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Planning and Strategy Formulation for Your Organization’s Financial Success (SSMG133/25)
Did 2020 show us that planning doesn't work? It might seem that way. But, obviously some organizations survived far better than others due to their ability to handle unexpected change. Sick and tired of taking CPE that has no practical application or...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Data Analytics Readiness Series: Artificial Intelligence- Basic Concepts in Excel (SSTE112/25)
This one-hour course will serve as an introduction to artificial intelligence and how artificial intelligence is utilized in Excel. Users will be introduced to correlation and trend functions in Excel. The basics of linear regression and its applica...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Compilation and Review Overview (SSAA177/25)
Specifically designed for practitioners and their staff wanting an overview of compilation and review engagements, this course will introduce you to the objectives of compilation and review engagements, SSARS No. 21, Clarification and Recodification,...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Power Query Series: Useful Transformations (SSTE131/25)
This course covers a number of useful transformations using Power Query (Excel version) to clean, enrich, and shape data. Coverage includes pivoting and unpivoting, filtering and grouping, fuzzy matching, and more, with hands-on exercises for users t...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Securing a Comfortable Retirement in the Age of Spending (SSOT132/25)
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.
10 Credits
Surgent’s Preparing C Corporation Tax Returns for New Staff and Paraprofessionals (SSTX194/25)
This course is a great foundation to introduce new preparers to tax rules related to business returns. The course provides new staff coverage of tax areas affecting all business entities, providing staff training which they may carry to other busines...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Firm Quality Control Standards and Best Practices (SSAA263/25)
The best way to ensure engagement quality is through consistent application of a firm's system of quality control. In this course, we will review the key components of such a system, which can be found in the AICPA's quality control standards. Specif...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Preparing and Reviewing Client Prepared Financial Statements (SSAA112/25)
The ultimate objective of a financial statement audit is to issue the independent auditor's report. This module discusses the process, introduces key elements of financial statements, and provides best practices for auditors who either prepare or rev...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour (Original Air Date: 11/18/21) (SSTX256/25)
As financial and tax professionals well know, information overload is a constant struggle we face because things change quickly, and the sheer number of changes being made on a daily basis is enormous. Of great importance to small and medium tax ...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour (Original Air Date: 11/05/20) (SSTX288/25)
As financial and tax professionals well know, information overload is a constant struggle we face because things change quickly, and the sheer number of changes being made on a daily basis is enormous. Of great importance to small and medium tax ...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Excel: The Data Tools for Analysis – Power Query and Power Pivot (SSTE114/25)
With the Power BI ecosystem, a complete business intelligence solution, your company can begin the data analytics journey with Excel. Excel contains two data tools of the Power BI ecosystem to begin developing data skills: Power Query and Power Pivo...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour (Original Air Date: 7/08/21) (SSTX269/25)
As financial and tax professionals well know, information overload is a constant struggle we face because things change quickly, and the sheer number of changes being made on a daily basis is enormous. Of great importance to small and medium tax ...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Power Query Series: Use Cases (SSTE120/25)
This course presents five use cases for specific data issues a user may encounter in Power Query (Excel version). Through hands-on examples, users are guided through the process of overcoming each of these issues.Power Query is an "ETL" tool that ex...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Data Analytics for Accountants and Financial Managers (SSAA142/25)
Data analytics and mining are the fastest growing disciplines in accounting and general management. Many organizations are either planning programs or have them already underway. Unfortunately, a number of these attempts fail due to poor planning...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Effective Communications with Management and Those Charged with Governance (SSAA129/25)
As a byproduct of the audit, the auditor has a responsibility to communicate certain information to management and those charged with governance, primarily related to risk and internal control deficiencies. In some cases the auditor may be required t...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Give Me a Little Credit: Understanding the Yellow Book CPE Requirements (SSAA290/25)
Auditors who plan, direct, or perform engagement procedures or reporting on Yellow Book engagements are required to develop and maintain their professional competence by complying with the Yellow Book CPE requirements. This course is designed to help...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Reviewing Audit Workpapers (SSAA118/25)
Audit documentation provides the principal support for the independent auditor's report. Therefore, it is important that workpapers meet professional standards. Anything less could result in peer or regulatory review deficiencies at as a worse case, ...
2 Credits
Surgent’s General Ethics for Tax Practitioners (SSET106/25)
This two-hour course covers most of the specific ethical considerations that come into play as a practitioner in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service.
2 Credits
Surgent’s Audit Quality and Peer Review Update (SSAA174/25)
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...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Data Security: Best Practices to Protect Your Business and Yourself (SSTE117/25)
Data security is a front-of-mind topic for most businesses because the risk and cost statistics are sobering. Each of us is in the crosshairs because a typical internet-connected computer faces a cyberattack every 39 seconds. Businesses of all sizes ...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Hiring and Firing of Employees – What You Can and Cannot Do (SSOT119/25)
There are numerous federal laws that restrict what businesses can do in terms of hiring and firing employees. Many of these laws impose significant penalties if employers violate them. Accordingly, it is crucial that all employers and their professio...
8 Credits
Surgent’s FASB Update for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: A Practical Implementation Guide (SSAA196/25)
This course provides a detailed discussion on the key topics related to financial reporting. The course will focus on all recent ASUs issued by the FASB with a concentration on issues of greatest significance to most accounting practitioners. Specifi...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour (Original Air Date: 9/24/20) (SSTX294/25)
As financial and tax professionals well know, information overload is a constant struggle we face because things change quickly, and the sheer number of changes being made on a daily basis is enormous. Of great importance to small and medium tax ...