1 Credit
Surgent’s Crowdfunding: A General Overview (SSOT114/25)
In the past, entrepreneurs who sought investment capital for their start-ups were subject to the preferences and expectations of a small set of wealthy investors. These venture capitalists and angel investors often played the role of highly selective...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Power Query Series: Making a Connection (SSTE124/25)
This course explores the workflow of making connections to various data sources using the Excel version of Power Query. Power Query is an "ETL" tool that extracts, transforms, and loads data. This tool has a user-friendly interface that enables the E...
4 Credits
Surgent’s IA Module 4 — Maximizing Internal Audit (IA) Value, Coverage, Assurance and Reliance (SSAA228/25)
The "name of the game" in virtually any business (or profession), and most certainly for Internal Auditors, is adding the greatest possible value to and for all stakeholders of that business/profession. Internal Auditors serve a wide variety of stake...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Workplace Etiquette for Young Professionals (SSOT138/25)
Understanding the nuances of workplace protocol facilitates effective interactions within the office as well as at external business functions. In this class you will learn how to cultivate your executive presence as well as how to conduct yourself ...
4 Credits
Surgent’s IRS Tax Examinations and Hot Issues (SSTX140/25)
Due to IRS issue focused examinations, Accounting and Finance Professionals need to understand what types of returns are selected for examination and ways to help clients survive an IRS audit with little or no change. As a result of issue focused exa...
8 Credits
Surgent’s Maximizing Your Social Security Benefits (SSTX225/25)
The leading edge of the baby boomer generation has already reached retirement age. Financial and tax planners can expect increased demand for strategies that dovetail Social Security with other retirement and estate planning objectives. This course p...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour (Original Air Date: 12/09/21) (SSTX258/25)
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 Update on the AICPA’s Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative (SSAA193/25)
Quality should be the primary focus of all engagements. Since initiating its Enhancing Engagement Quality initiative in 2014, the AICPA has been using its peer review program as a way to assess the improvement in engagement quality.In this course, we...
8 Credits
Surgent’s The Complete Guide to Liquidation of Business Entities (SSTX129/25)
Liquidations may be used as an alternative to the sale of a business or as an adjunct to the sale of business assets. The objective of this course is to fully explore the technical tax and business issues in liquidating C corporations, S corporations...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Power Query Series: Append Queries (SSTE129/25)
Append queries combine two or more queries into one output query that is a combination of the originals. This course discusses best practices for creating append queries using Power Query (Excel version) and includes hands-on exercises to enable th...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Critical Conversations: Having the “Hard to Have” Discussions (SSOT103/25)
Silence isn't always golden. Problems don't solve themselves and as the engagement leader, it is your responsibility to proactively address and resolve issues, even if it means having challenging conversations.As uncomfortable as some of these conver...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Data Analytics Readiness Series: Data Extraction and Data Sources (SSTE104/25)
This one-hour course serves as the introductory module to data analytics. Users of the course will learn the basic terminology used in performing data analytic-based tasks or working with data analytics. An understanding of the sources of data and im...
4 Credits
Surgent’s Proven Controls to Steer You Clear of Fraud (SSAA204/25)
Every organization in the world will fall victim to fraud. This course will cover the means and methods available to reduce the prevalence of fraud. We will also discuss the controls that victim organizations employ in order to seek improvements for our own organizations.
2 Credits
Surgent’s Bankruptcy Basics: Understanding the Reorganization and Liquidation Process in These Uncertain Economic Times (SSOT108/25)
Consumers and businesses file for bankruptcy to seek protection from creditors and to reorganize or liquidate debts. Bankruptcy filings rise and fall with the economy. Surveys show that loss of income is the leading cause of consumer bankruptcies, ...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Monthly Accounting Update Series (Original Air Date: 5/25/21) (SSAA242/25)
The one constant in life is change. This is true in the A&A world as well. 2021 will continue to challenge the accounting profession in many areas, including accounting for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, working in a virtual environment, an...
1 Credit
Surgent’s Data Analytics Readiness Series: PivotTables (SSTE108/25)
This one-hour course will provide users with hands-on practice using PivotTables and Excel. Users will learn and apply skills to create, structure, and analyze data using PivotTables. The benefits and limitations of PivotTables will be discussed. Use...
4 Credits
Surgent’s S Corporation Taxation: Advanced Issues (SSTX211/25)
This course goes beyond the basics and addresses important practical issues that an experienced practitioner must know about S corporations.
8 Credits
Surgent’s Individual and Financial-Planning Tax Camp (SSTX156/25)
Each year brings its own set of tax planning challenges, and this year is no exception. This course aims to arm tax planners with planning strategies and ideas that all clients, but in particular, wealthy clients, middle-income clients, and closely h...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Lessons Learned: What a $53 Million Fraud Can Teach Us (SSAA200/25)
This course will take an in-depth look at the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history. What red flags did the auditors miss? What red flags did the bank miss? This course includes a conversation with former U.S. Marshal Jason Wojdylo, who was an inte...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Controllership Skills Update: Current Survival Skills (SSAA166/25)
The role of financial professionals has and continues to change in organizations. The stereotype of collecting and reporting data has been replaced by a broader vision, which focuses on improving an organization's results today and preparing it for t...
12 Credits
Surgent’s Advanced Individual Income Tax Return Issues (SSTX228/25)
Most Accounting and Financial Professionals have been preparing individual income tax returns for years, and while many of the returns are easy, there are always a number of issues that come up in busy season of which experienced practitioners wish t...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Controllership Skills Update: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances (SSAA168/25)
Mergers, acquisitions, and partnering have long been strategic vehicles to grow or change an existing organization. Corporate America has extensive experience in merging with or acquiring firms. However, its track record of being able to unify an acq...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Top Individual Tax Planning Strategies (SSTX167/25)
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and SECURE Act 2.0 both contained tax law changes that impact many individuals in 2023 and in later years. This program covers many of these changes as well as other tax topics that continue to impact individual income taxpayers.
2 Credits
Surgent’s Performing Effective Accounting Research (SSAA122/25)
Financial accounting can be complex. An integral part of a senior associate's job responsibilities is to perform effective and efficient research using the FASB's Accounting Standards Codification (ASC). In this session, participants will be introduc...
2 Credits
Surgent’s Food, Beverage, and Entertainment Expensing (SSTX136/25)
The IRS has recently issued final regulations regarding the TCJA's elimination of the deduction for expenditures related to entertainment, amusement, or recreational activities and provided guidance to determine whether an activity is considered to b...