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The Best Federal Tax Update Course by Surgent
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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In this continually revised course, tax advisors will be fully updated on the most recent enacted legislation and IRS guidance, as well as major trends on the horizon with a view toward planning considerations. This update course is designed for all practitioners, both those working in public accounting as well as those in private industry, who need the latest information on tax changes. Please Note: Due to content overlap, it is recommended that this course NOT be taken together with BITU.Speaker - Bob Lickwar, CPA
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2025 Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference - 1st Day Only- In Person
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New Orleans
8.00 Credits
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Get ready for the ultimate accounting and auditing experience! The newly combined A&A Conference for CPAs merges the previously separate Governmental Accounting & Auditing Conference and the Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference, creating one dynamic event that brings over 250 CPAs together for a unique in-person learning and networking opportunity.At this conference, you’ll be able to choose from specialized tracks tailored to your interests, making it easy to connect directly with governmental accountants, auditors, and top CPAs from across Louisiana. Whether you’re looking to enhance your knowledge or expand your professional network, this event offers the perfect setting for both.The all new Ledgers & Legends Week at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans brings together a full week of conferences, offering a wealth of CPE, networking opportunities, and exciting events. Don’t miss the Annual Meeting to welcome new leadership, or the unforgettable 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball, a night of recognition and networking. When registering, you’ll select sessions to help us estimate room sizes, but you can attend any session you choose on the day of the event.
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2025 Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference - 1st Day Only- Webcast
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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Get ready for the ultimate accounting and auditing experience! The newly combined A&A Conference for CPAs merges the previously separate Governmental Accounting & Auditing Conference and the Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference, creating one dynamic event that brings over 250 CPAs together for a unique in-person learning and networking opportunity.At this conference, you’ll be able to choose from specialized tracks tailored to your interests, making it easy to connect directly with governmental accountants, auditors, and top CPAs from across Louisiana. Whether you’re looking to enhance your knowledge or expand your professional network, this event offers the perfect setting for both.The all new Ledgers & Legends Week at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans brings together a full week of conferences, offering a wealth of CPE, networking opportunities, and exciting events. Don’t miss the Annual Meeting to welcome new leadership, or the unforgettable 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball, a night of recognition and networking. When registering, you’ll select sessions to help us estimate room sizes, but you can attend any session you choose on the day of the event.
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2025 Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference - Both Days - Webcast
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Online/Webcast
16.00 Credits
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Get ready for the ultimate accounting and auditing experience! The newly combined A&A Conference for CPAs merges the previously separate Governmental Accounting & Auditing Conference and the Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference, creating one dynamic event that brings over 250 CPAs together for a unique in-person learning and networking opportunity.At this conference, you’ll be able to choose from specialized tracks tailored to your interests, making it easy to connect directly with governmental accountants, auditors, and top CPAs from across Louisiana. Whether you’re looking to enhance your knowledge or expand your professional network, this event offers the perfect setting for both.The all new Ledgers & Legends Week at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans brings together a full week of conferences, offering a wealth of CPE, networking opportunities, and exciting events. Don’t miss the Annual Meeting to welcome new leadership, or the unforgettable 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball, a night of recognition and networking. When registering, you’ll select sessions to help us estimate room sizes, but you can attend any session you choose on the day of the event.
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2025 Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference - Both Days- In Person
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New Orleans
16.00 Credits
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Get ready for the ultimate accounting and auditing experience! The newly combined A&A Conference for CPAs merges the previously separate Governmental Accounting & Auditing Conference and the Louisiana Accounting & Auditing Conference, creating one dynamic event that brings over 250 CPAs together for a unique in-person learning and networking opportunity.At this conference, you’ll be able to choose from specialized tracks tailored to your interests, making it easy to connect directly with governmental accountants, auditors, and top CPAs from across Louisiana. Whether you’re looking to enhance your knowledge or expand your professional network, this event offers the perfect setting for both.The all new Ledgers & Legends Week at the Ritz-Carlton in New Orleans brings together a full week of conferences, offering a wealth of CPE, networking opportunities, and exciting events. Don’t miss the Annual Meeting to welcome new leadership, or the unforgettable 1st Annual Ledgers & Legends Ball, a night of recognition and networking. When registering, you’ll select sessions to help us estimate room sizes, but you can attend any session you choose on the day of the event.
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Defining Where and Why Internal Controls are Needed
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Most organizations have many of the basic controls required to operate in place. However, a notable percentage of these companies do not have important measures that can help enhance security, productivity, and the quality of information available for decision making. In this session, we work to identify areas where important internal control measures are needed. We spend time explaining why these controls should be created, and show in detail some specific controls that would be beneficial if utilized. Those wishing to strengthen an internal control system should strongly consider attending 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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2025 Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Services Conference - 1st Day Only - In Person
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New Orleans
8.00 Credits
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This year’s Forensic Litigation and Valuation Services Conference offers timely, in-depth content focused on the evolving landscape of forensic accounting and valuation. Louisiana continues to be a center for high-quality professional development in these areas, delivering valuable insights to help you stay ahead. Whether you’re a seasoned CPA or exploring new opportunities in this dynamic field join us at the Ritz this August! Full agenda with sessions and speakers coming soon.
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2025 Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Services Conference - 1st Day Only - Webcast
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Online/Webcast
8.00 Credits
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This year’s Forensic Litigation and Valuation Services Conference offers timely, in-depth content focused on the evolving landscape of forensic accounting and valuation. Louisiana continues to be a center for high-quality professional development in these areas, delivering valuable insights to help you stay ahead. Whether you’re a seasoned CPA or exploring new opportunities in this dynamic field join us at the Ritz this August! Full agenda with sessions and speakers coming soon.
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2025 Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Services Conference - Both Days - In Person
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New Orleans
16.00 Credits
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This year’s Forensic Litigation and Valuation Services Conference offers timely, in-depth content focused on the evolving landscape of forensic accounting and valuation. Louisiana continues to be a center for high-quality professional development in these areas, delivering valuable insights to help you stay ahead. Whether you’re a seasoned CPA or exploring new opportunities in this dynamic field join us at the Ritz this August! Full agenda with sessions and speakers coming soon.
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2025 Forensic, Litigation & Valuation Services Conference - Both Days - Webcast
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Online/Webcast
16.00 Credits
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This year’s Forensic Litigation and Valuation Services Conference offers timely, in-depth content focused on the evolving landscape of forensic accounting and valuation. Louisiana continues to be a center for high-quality professional development in these areas, delivering valuable insights to help you stay ahead. Whether you’re a seasoned CPA or exploring new opportunities in this dynamic field join us at the Ritz this August! Full agenda with sessions and speakers coming soon.
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AI Lessons Learned for Accountants
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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This course provides accountants with the leading AI insights and strategies drawn from real-world experience, empirical studies, countless CPA case studies, and social media commentary. It goes beyond theory, offering practical lessons learned from the front lines of AI implementation in the business world and accounting industry. Participants will gain actionable knowledge on bridging the theory-application gap, navigating exponential technological changes, and creating secure, adaptive AI policies. By the end of the session, accountants will be equipped to leverage AI responsibly and innovatively in their roles. 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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S Corporations: Calculating Shareholder Basis
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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A detailed analysis of the calculations related to determining a shareholder's tax basis for S corporation shares and loans. How to use the Form 1120S, Schedule K-1 information for basis determination. An illustrative example demonstrates how the process works, as well as the many potential pitfalls. 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
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Money Laundering 101 for CPAs
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Online/Webcast
4.00 Credits
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CPAs spend most of their working lives reviewing bank statements and books and records of businesses. They are experts in understanding how to prepare financial statements according to GAAP. But would a CPA know a possible money laundering transaction if they saw it? Would they know about a money laundering business? Money laundering is a subject of many action and thriller movies, but rarely understood. This presentation will educate the CPA in understanding the basics of money laundering and how to identify money laundering. This presentation will help the CPA know the truth about money laundering, how to identify it, the statutes that define it, and the court cases that interpret it. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Robert Nordlander, CPA, CFE
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Analyzing Financial Statements
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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This course provides tools and insights into financial statement analysis - both quantitative and qualitative. We'll look not only at the three main financial statements but also dive into the MD&A and footnotes. We'll also discuss the affect of industry nuances on comparability of different analysis tools. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Keely Gohl, CPA, CGMA
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Monthly Federal Tax Updates - August 2025
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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Seismic changes in tax legislation is currently taking place, and the well-informed tax practitioner will want to attend this two hour monthly program in order to stay abreast of these developments! Approximately one-half of the program is devoted to individual tax issues, and the remaining time is spend on business entity taxation, IRS procedure, tax legislation and other issues. Due to the changing nature of the topic, learning objectives, course descriptions and program content will vary and will be provided in more specificity closer to presentation time. This course provides a concise look at the hottest topics affecting every tax practitioner. 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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Adobe Acrobat Tips for Working with PDF Files
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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If you find yourself working with PDF files consistently throughout the day, this course will teach you how to review, annotate, format and organize PDF files more effectively and in less time. You will also learn how to use Adobe Acrobat for e-signatures to reduce document processing time significantly and enhance confidentiality. Adobe Acrobat has many features that you can take advantage of and this course will explain and demonstrate how to use them. 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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How Recent Auditing Standards Improve Risk-Based Audits
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Online/Webcast
4.00 Credits
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Recent generally accepted auditing standards were written to improve the quality of risk-based financial statement audits, audit reporting, and required by-product communications. This course will discuss the important clarifications and enhancements intended to improve audit quality to ensure better compliance with requirements contained in the SASs. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Jennifer F. Louis, CPA
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Determining Reasonable Compensation for Owner Employees
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Online/Webcast
1.00 Credits
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This session will expand on methodologies to employ when owner-employee compensation is at issue. The session will focus on determinations of reasonable replacement compensation for individuals who both provide services to a closely held business or professional practice and also have an ownership stake in the enterprise. Executive Compensation in the form of options and restricted stock will also be covered in the context of marital dissolution proceedings. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Ronald L Seigneur, CPA/ABV, ASA, CVA
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CPA to CFO
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Online/Webcast
1.00 Credits
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This Masterclass is a one-hour training exclusively for CPAs and accountants. Rely less on tax season and use your expertise to help business owners have a better future! Designed for CPAs, but also applicable to enrolled agents and accountants, this webinar covers the steps necessary to effectively transform a tax or accounting practice into an advisory service. We explore what it means to be a CFO/advisor to small-to-medium sizes businesses and what qualifications are necessary to offer such a service. We will also cover how to find and convert leads and how to price and package services, including combining advisory services with the firm's current offerings. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.Speaker - Lacey Harnar
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Partnership/LLC Taxation: Tax Basis Capital Accounts
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Online/Webcast
2.00 Credits
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This program addresses the most recent developments impacting partnerships operating as LLCs, with a focus on legislative, administrative, and tax form changes. Emphasis will be placed on partners "tax basis" capital accounts, now required for tax form reporting. 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