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Whether you have an hour during lunch or an entire day, LCPA provides quality, flexible options to fit your schedule. Look for the "See more dates" dropdown to view availability. Several events/classes produced by LCPA can be taken either LIVE (In-Person) or VIRTUAL—please ensure you register for the correct one.
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Building Security and Efficiency With Internal Control
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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A well-designed internal controls system can and will drive all entity objectives. Too many times control creators focus too much on security. It is important to properly balance protection-based measures with those designed to enhance efficiency. This session works to illustrate the power of a strong and well supported control system. It also discusses steps to take in order to establish such a system. This material is becoming more and more beneficial as companies strive to address many new business challenges such as evolving markets, the rapid rate of change in the business world and the notable increase in governmental and industry-based regulation. Those that desire a balanced and workplace enhancing control system should strongly consider this session. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Karl Egnatoff, CPA.CITP
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Surgent's Single Auditing Made Simple
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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Single auditing can seem complex. With thousands of pages of potential AICPA, GAO, and OMB literature coming together for the audit of one client, auditors can easily lose focus and confidence in what they are supposed to do; however, it does not have to be that way. This course is designed to sharpen your skills and knowledge in performing single audits and eliminate wasted efforts under the 2024 Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards revision.Speaker - Charlie Blanton, CPA
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2025 Business & Energy Conference - 2nd Day Only - In Person (Formerly BIC and EC)
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New Orleans
8.00 Credits
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The Business & Energy Conference is now bigger and better than ever! This year, we’ve merged two major events into one expanded experience: • Business & Industry Conference• Energy Conference With this powerful combination, the event offers even more opportunities for learning and networking. Sessions span both tracks, giving you the chance to connect with professionals across diverse sectors—including key decision-makers and industry influencers. This is your opportunity to broaden your knowledge, strengthen your network, and gain insights from some of the brightest minds in business and energy.As part of your registration, you’ll also receive a free ticket to the Annual Meeting Lunch on Friday, where we’ll welcome new leadership and look ahead to the future of the profession. It’s a great chance to engage with your peers and hear what’s ahead for the industry. Don’t leave early—Friday night is the 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball at the Ritz-Carlton. This exciting, black-tie optional event is all about celebrating the accomplishments of CPAs in a fun, festive setting. Expect an unforgettable evening of connection and celebration!Click the agenda tab at the top of this page to view sessions, speakers, and times. When registering, you’ll select your sessions to help us plan room sizes, but feel free to attend any session you choose on the day of the event.
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2025 Business & Energy Conference - 2nd Day Only - Webcast (Formerly BIC and EC)
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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The Business & Energy Conference is now bigger and better than ever! This year, we’ve merged two major events into one expanded experience: • Business & Industry Conference• Energy Conference With this powerful combination, the event offers even more opportunities for learning and networking. Sessions span both tracks, giving you the chance to connect with professionals across diverse sectors—including key decision-makers and industry influencers. This is your opportunity to broaden your knowledge, strengthen your network, and gain insights from some of the brightest minds in business and energy.As part of your registration, you’ll also receive a free ticket to the Annual Meeting Lunch on Friday, where we’ll welcome new leadership and look ahead to the future of the profession. It’s a great chance to engage with your peers and hear what’s ahead for the industry. Don’t leave early—Friday night is the 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball at the Ritz-Carlton. This exciting, black-tie optional event is all about celebrating the accomplishments of CPAs in a fun, festive setting. Expect an unforgettable evening of connection and celebration!Click the agenda tab at the top of this page to view sessions, speakers, and times. When registering, you’ll select your sessions to help us plan room sizes, but feel free to attend any session you choose on the day of the event.
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Long-Term Care Insurance: Make the Switch
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Online/Webcast
1.00 Credits
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How to pay for the cost of long-term care remains a primary concern for most clients over the age of 50. Explore clients' motivations, misconceptions and objections to purchasing long-term care insurance, and a look at the latest long-term care solutions, including hybrids. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Katana Abbott, CFP, CSA
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How to Audit Inventory
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Inventory observations are often a right of passage for audit staff. This course will cover the basics of auditing inventory, including the related audit assertions, risks, & threats to inventory. During this course, we will also highlight the various substantive auditing procedures that staff should perform, and also walk through how to conduct a physical inventory observation. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Jaclyn M. Veno, CPA
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ChatGPT: What Every CPA Should Know-Updated
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Don't look now, but ChatGPT is taking the business world, including the accounting profession, by storm. Every CPA, whether in public accounting or working in corporate, should have a fundamental understanding of ChatGPT and generative AI applications more broadly. This course will provide you with a foundation of knowledge about ChatGPT technology that will prepare you to have conversations with clients, customers, colleagues and service providers. More importantly, you will learn how to leverage ChatGPT to increase your personal productivity. If you feel your ChatGPT knowledge is lacking, that will not be the case after you attend this course, taught by John Higgins, one of the leading technology strategists and thought leaders for the accounting profession. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - John Higgins, CPA.CITP
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Critical Thinking Skills: Prevent Mistakes Now
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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What were they thinking? Why do some people make horrible decisions that severely damage themselves and their organizations? It is tempting to assume that a poor choice must be due to a leader’s incompetence, inexperience, bad character, or low intelligence – but such easily attributed factors generally aren’t the true cause when leaders blunder. In such situations, many turn to finance and accounting professionals for evaluation, answers, remedies, and solutions for improved decision-making. Speaker - John Daly
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Surgent's Reducing a Business Owner Client's Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Many business owner clients wish to minimize their Social Security and self-employment tax liabilities. This course provides tax practitioners with the background to understand what kinds of income constitute self-employment income and earned income. It covers strategies that can be used to reduce clients' exposure to the self-employment tax and Social Security tax.Speaker - Mike Tucker, Ph.D., LL.M., J.D., CPA
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ACPEN Signature 2025: Governmental Accounting & Auditing Update
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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Practitioners and members in industry responsible for accounting and financial reporting for nonprofit and governmental entities. Stay up-to-date on rapidly changing developments by participating in the 2025 Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update! Take advantage of this opportunity to find out about breaking government issues. This is your opportunity to hear about the latest challenges facing state and local governments and practitioners who work with them and audit them, presented by leading experts on governmental accounting and auditing, both those who work in the trenches and those from the regulatory world. With all of the fiscal, regulatory, and new standards challenges facing governments and their auditors, it is important to keep current on critical issues and developments. In 2025, governments and their auditors continue to operate in a rapidly changing environment as they continue to face the many challenges associated with significant federal funding with complex requirements. From a governmental accounting, auditing, and compliance perspective, 2025 will be a critical year for addressing the complex federal and local funding challenges as well as focusing on implementing new standards and requirements! Plus, it is imperative that you start planning for the significant changes coming in 2025 and beyond! Exciting new topics this year include focused discussions on addressing the new GASB pronouncement on financial reporting model improvements and capital asset disclosures, artificial intelligence and governments, and the GAO’s 2024 Yellow Book! You’ll receive an update on the most recent accounting and auditing developments affecting governments and government auditors. This includes Single Audit issues, AICPA and Yellow Book issues, new and recently effective GASB pronouncements, audit issues, and a look at what’s on the horizon. Join ACPEN’s panel of experts as they discuss, not only the technical requirements of new standards, but also the key implementation issues that must be addressed by auditors and their governmental clients! Benefit from their experience and insights from many perspectives, as well as their long experience in governmental accounting and auditing. Speaker - Frank Crawford, David Cotton
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Auditing digital assets: Client acceptance and continuance, risk assessment, and laws regulations and related parties
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Auditing entities that hold or transact digital assets (bold) Would you like to better understand the environment of digital asset transactions? Have you ever wondered if you should accept or continue a client engagement? This webcast will help you identify challenges, risks and factors to consider when deciding to accept or continue with a client who holds or transacts with digital assets. During the webcast and discussion, you will learn: The Digital Assets Working Group's mission and the process through which nonauthoritative guidance is developed What private keys are and ways to safeguard them and the digital assets to which they enable access About the rapidly evolving nature of the digital asset ecosystem that may lead to challenges when performing required procedures surrounding laws and regulations You will gain: Insight into the unique aspects of the risk assessment process when involved in the digital assets space Awareness of the pseudo-anonymous nature of digital asset transactions that may lead to challenges in performing required procedures surrounding related-party relationships and transactions with related parties You will also gain access to valuable resources: Accounting for and Auditing of Digital Assets Practice Aid Blockchain Universal Glossary Webcast: Accounting for Digital Assets under U.S. GAAP Digital Asset Resources
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CFO Series: Crisis Management - Navigate the Storms Safely!
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
Whether it's changes in the market, a global pandemic, or loss of a supplier, at some point, most organizations will face a crisis. How you respond can make or break your organization. This intensive seminar on crisis management and business continuity planning will equip you with the knowledge and skills to manage crises confidently and ensure that your organization stays resilient. Resilient organizations recover faster from crises. Failing to plan for the next crisis is planning to fail.Speaker - Robert Berry, CPA
Google Gemini AI for Accountants
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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This course provides a concise overview of Gemini AI, Google's advanced multimodal artificial intelligence model. It explains how Gemini is integrated into different Google products, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and as a stand-alone chatbot. Participants will learn how Gemini enhances productivity by summarizing email threads, suggesting responses, drafting emails, generating formulas, creating tables, and more. By the end of the course, students will have a solid foundation in understanding Gemini AI's role in the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Garrett Wasny, MA, CMC, CITP/FIBP
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Effectively Responding to IRS Letters
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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This course equips tax professionals with the knowledge and strategies needed to handle the most common IRS letters, including general notices, audit requests, collections, return inquiries, and error notices. Participants will learn how to interpret IRS correspondence, adhere to response deadlines, and effectively communicate with the IRS to resolve issues and minimize risks. The session also highlights best practices for ensuring compliance and avoiding penalties or escalation, empowering attendees to navigate IRS correspondence with confidence. *Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com Speaker - Mary Jane Hourani
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Understanding the New Forms K-2 and K-3
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Schedules K-2 and K-3 are promulgated by the IRS in order to standardize the reporting of foreign-related tax information for pass-through entities. Even pass-through entities that have no foreign activities, investments, or partners may have a reporting requirement. Schedules K-2 and K-3 for reporting partners' income, deductions, and credits from foreign activity are now required for passthrough returns (Form 1065, 1120-S and 8858). This requirement starts with returns with a tax year that ends in 2021. This course discusses each part of these schedules and explain these new reporting obligations in detail. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Allison M. McLeod, LL.M., CPA
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Managerial Accounting: Your Prescription for Better Decision
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Online/Webcast
4.00 Credits
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This session revisits useful, but potentially underutilized, managerial accounting techniques. You will appreciate a fresh look at concepts you may not have considered since your college days. We will illustrate practical ways you can immediately implement managerial accounting analysis in your professional endeavors. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Dr. Christopher J. Harper, CPA, MBA
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Guide Strategy, Attract Investments with Financial Forecasts
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Financial statement forecasting is essential for predicting a company's future financial health, guiding strategic decisions, and attracting investments. By analyzing historical data, market trends, and assumptions, businesses can anticipate risks and opportunities, enabling effective planning, resource allocation, and long-term stability and growth. - Forecasting Process: This involves projecting future income, expenses, and resources. By leveraging historical data and market insights, businesses can predict financial health, shaping strategic planning, investment decisions, and risk management. - Forecasting Profitability: Predicting future earnings informs strategic decisions, investment planning, and resource allocation. It facilitates effective budgeting, cash flow management, risk assessment, and enhances attractiveness to investors for sustainable growth. - Forecasting the Balance Sheet: Analysts forecast to predict a company's future financial position, assessing growth potential, solvency, and capital structure. This informs investment decisions, strategic planning, and risk management, ensuring financial stability and growth. Join our webinar to explore these concepts with a practical example, guiding you through the forecasting process and demonstrating its practical applications in real-world scenarios. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Eric Knight, CPA, DBA
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What You Can Learn From the Statement of Cash Flows
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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This course allows you to get reacquainted with the statement of cash flows. We will refresh your skills regarding both the preparation and utilization of the statement of cash flows. Significant emphasis will be placed on the informational role of the statement of cash flows and insights that can be obtained using the statement of cash flows in concert with the other elements of a company's accrual-basis financial statements. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Chris Harper, CPA
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2025 Annual Meeting & Election of Officers
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New Orleans
0.00 Credits
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Join us for our annual luncheon at The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans as we usher in the 2025-26 LCPA Board of Directors. Bridget Kaigler, 2024-25 Chair, will reflect on her past year, and Incoming Chair Anthony Rutledge will share his theme for the year to come. This is the perfect time to reconnect with friends and celebrate our new leaders in this historic hotel. Stay the night and celebrate with the new board at the 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball. A night of celebration & recognition. NOTE: Registration for the Business & Energy Conference includes the annual lunch, no separate lunch registration required for conference attendees. 2025-26 BOARD NOMINEESThe LCPA Nominating Committee met April 4, 2024, and selected the following slate of candidates: Chair-ElectKenneth Champagne, CPA, CGMAConfieBaton Rouge, LA TreasurerJim Schneider, CPA, CIAThe Personnel Consulting GroupNew Orleans, LA At-Large Members (2 year terms) Samantha Falgout, CPA, MBANicholls State UniversityThibodaux, LA At-Large Member (1 year term) Jessica Cormier, CPABPMBaton Rouge, LA These positions not requiring a member vote: As current Chair-Elect, Anthony Rutledge, CPA, MBA will accede to Chair. Bridget Kaigler, CPA, CGMA will serve as Immediate Past Chair. The following members will return for the second year of their two-year terms: Nene Gianfala, CPA/ABV, ASA-BV/IA Chaffe & Associates, IncNew Orleans, LA Nicolette Releford, CPAIntuitBastrop, LA Brett Summerville, CPAHannis T. Bourgeois, LLPNew Orleans, LA Dr. Laura Wiley, CPALSU Department of AccountingBaton Rouge, LA * Only LCPA members in good standing are eligible to vote. Candidate and Student Affiliates are welcome to attend but are not eligible to vote in the election.
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Mastering IRS Form 7217: Partnership Property Distributions
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Online/Webcast
1.00 Credits
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The IRS recently released the new Form 7217 for 2024, designed for a partner to report distributions of property received from a partnership. This course dives into the complexity of the partnership distribution rules and their application to the new form, as well as discuss liquidating a partner's interest, Section 751 and the Section 754 election. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Steven C. Dilley, CPA, JD, PhD