Webinars - September 2012

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Advanced Technical Tax Forms Training - LLCs, S Corporations and Partnerships

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.  Family Succession Planning: Entities & Wealth Management Techiques

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Calculating a Partner's or LLC Member's Basis

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Fair Value Accounting: Making the Complex Issues Understandable

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Advanced Technical Tax Forms Training - Form 1040 Issues

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  iPad – How to Use an iPad for Beginners

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Performing & Reporting Compilation Engagements (includes 2 A&A hours)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Ten Things You Must Know About Choosing the Right Business Entity in 2012

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  iPad – How to Configure Your iPad for Maximum Value

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Financial Statement Basics: Balance Sheets, Income Statements and Cash Flow

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Accounting and Reporting for Not-For-Profits: Issues and Answers

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  PowerPoint Level 1 - Creating Professional Presentations

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  IRC Section 1031:Understanding Like-Kind Exchanges

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Multistate Tax - The Hot New Issues in Determining Nexus

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.   Financial Statement Analysis: Better Decisions by the Numbers

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  PowerPoint Level 2 - Advanced Presentation Design

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Information Security Update 2012

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Tax Practice Ethics: Circular 230 Tips for Today's Tax Practitioner

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Year-End Payroll Tax Adjustments and 1099 Issues for Businesses

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  IFRS: The Basics

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Weighted Profit Sharing Plans, big benefits for your Clients

1:30 - 5:00 p.m.  Ethical Considerations for CPAs

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  IFRS Introduction - What You Need to Know

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  The Best Federal Update Course by Surgent McCoy

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Closing Best Practices - Shortening Month End

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  2012 IRS Practices and Procedures Update

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Ethics for Tax Professionals

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Sales and Marketing Tools To Help You Grow Your Practice

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Fraud Alert –How Fraud Can Impact You!

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.   S Corporations: Financial Accounting - Part 1

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Small Audits Made Easy and Profitable: An Overview (includes 2 A&A hours)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Lease Accounting: The Impact of Changing Standards on Both Lessors and Lessees

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Using Simple and SEP's for the Small Business Client

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Gift Tax Return Preparation Issues

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.   S Corporations: Financial Accounting - Part II

3:00 - 6:00 p.m.  Understanding Contracts Better Than Your Lawyer

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Surgent McCoy's Handbook to Mastering Basis, Distributions, and Loss Limitation Issues for S Corporations, LLCs and Partnerships

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.  2012 Accounting & Auditing Update

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Tax Practice Ethics: IRS Regulations of Tax Practitioners Part 1

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Interactive Excel Data Capture

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Fraud Issues for Construction Contractors

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.   Tax Issues for Construction Contractors

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.   Tax Depreciation: Review & Update

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  The Battle Between W-2 & 1099

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  The Best Income-Tax, Estate-Tax, and Financial-Planning Ideas of 2012

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  I See It! Bringing into Focus the New Clarified Auditing Standards

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Take Your Writing to the Next Level: MS Word Can Make You a Better Writer

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  iPad - Review of Top Apps for Business Professionals

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Individual and Business Compliance and Tax Form Issues Tax Practitioners Need to Know

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Resolving Ethical Conflicts

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Independence Issues: Are You in Compliance?

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  iPad - Integrating iPads Into Your Accounting Practice

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Accounting for Employee Benefit Plans

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Choosing the Best Entity Structure Under the Tax Law in 2012

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Excel - How To Build A Spreadsheet for Beginners

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.  2012 Compilation & Review Update

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Nonprofit Boards: Stepping Up to Today's Challenges

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Accounting Standards: Summer Update (includes 2 A&A hours)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.   IRS Form 1099 Reporting: What You Need to Know

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.   Excel - Printing and Formatting Your Spreadsheets

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  The Civil Advantage: Workplace Ethics and Civility

2:00 - 10:00 p.m.  2012 Compilation & Review Update

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Auditing Standards: Summer Update (includes 2 A&A hours)

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Fiduciary Income Tax Returns - Form 1041 Workshop

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Excel - Analyze Your Data Using Pivot Tables

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  iPad - Everything You Need to Know About Itunes and Your iPad

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Ins and Outs of Self Directed IRAs

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Microsoft Office 2007/2010 - What's New?

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  403(b) Plans: Understanding the Unique Characteristics

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Excel - Tips For Eliminating Errors From Your Spreadsheets

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  SOX 404 Internal Controls: Best Practices

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  The Best Individual Income Tax Update Course by Surgent McCoy

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Michigan Tax Reform: The New Corporate & Individual Income Tax Changes

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Adobe Acrobat For Accountants I - Basic Features & Functions

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Small Audits: Saving Time with Quality Control (includes 2 A&A hours)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  The Monthly Tax Reporter with Jack Surgent and Mike Tucker (rebroadcast of 9/6).

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  2012 Auditors Review: The Clarity Project

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Adobe Acrobat For Accountants II - Advanced Features & Functions

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Windows 7 - Tips & Techniques

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.  2012 Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Excel Speed Tips

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Evolving Risk Landscape and Its Impact on the Audit Opinion

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  State Amazon Laws and Federal Remote Seller Proposals

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  The Top 15 Individual Tax Planning Ideas That Save Clients Money

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Client Portals - How to Develop A Strategic Model

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Government and Nonprofit A&A Update 2012: GASB and FASB Activities

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  More Excel Speed Tips

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Internal Controls: So Much Time For So Little Benefit

2:00 - 10:00 p.m.  2012 Governmental Accounting and Auditing Update

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Google+ for Accountants

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Annual Accounting and Auditing Update

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Strategies and Tactics in the New War Against Higher Individual Taxes

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Financial Accounting for LLCs and Partnerships

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Ethics Checklist for Tax Practitioners (includes 2 Ethics hours)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  LLCs and Partnerships: Contributed Property Issues Under Section 704C

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Financial Accounting for LLCs and Partnerships - Part II

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  NPOs--Key Form 990 Issues: Part 1

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Compilations and Reviews: Engagement Performance and Annual Update

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Latest Developments in Government Accounting & Auditing 2012

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Excel - Spreadsheet Design Techniques You Must Know - Part 1

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Creating the Best Projections You Can

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  IFRS for Oil, Gas, Mining and other Extractive Industries

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Excel - Spreadsheet Design Techniques You Must Know - Part 2

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Effective Corporate Governance: Working with the Board and Audit Committee

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  What You Need To Do Now In Estate Planning Under The New Tax Law

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  New Reporting Rules for Passive Activity Groupings

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Compilations and Reviews: Fulfilling the Accountant's Responsibilities in Accordance With Current Standards

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Related Party Transactions: Key Tax Issues, and What to Watch Out For

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Repairs to Tangible Property - Capitalize or Expense?

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Social Security, Medicare, and Prescription Drug Retirement Benefits: What Every Baby Boomer Needs to Know Now

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  S Corporations: Calculation of AAA, Basis Calculations and Loans 

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Revenue Recognition and Lease Issues for Construction, Homebuilding and Real Estate

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Social Media: Potential and Peril

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  S Corporations: Election, Conversion, and the Built-in Gain Tax

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Federal Estate and Gift Tax Returns: Forms 706 and 709 Workshop

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Tax Practice Ethics: Updated AICPA Statements on Standards of Tax Practice

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.  2012 Accounting & Auditing Update

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Automating Excel-Based Financial Statements

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  LinkedIn - Basic Tips & Techniques for Accounting Professionals

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  ABCs of Compilation & Review Reports (includes 2 A&A hours)

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Contingencies: Important Accounting and Disclosure Requirements

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.   Travel & Entertainment Expenses: Review & Update

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Introduction to Excel Macros

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Using LinkedIn as a Business Development Tool

2:00 - 10:00 a.m.  2012 Accounting & Auditing Update

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  Performance Execution: Succession Planning & Mentoring

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.  Accounting for Income Taxes: Applying ASC 740 (SFAS No.109 and FIN 48)

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Social Media Best Practices for CPAs

12:00 - 2:00 p.m.  Quarterly Tax Update: Fall

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Section 754 Step-Up in Basis: Understanding the Tax Issues for Partnerships and LLCs

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Not-for-Profit Accounting and Reporting: Key Contribution Concepts

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  Social Media - An Insider’s Look at the SocialCPAs Survey

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.  NPOs--Key Form 990 Issues: Part 2

11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.  Ethics in the Real World: Power, Influence and Ethics

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Accounting for Disaster: The 2007-2008 Financial Meltdown 

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  IFRS and Inventory

1:00 - 3:00 p.m.  Year-End Tax Planning Ideas for the Closely-Held Business

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.  How Good Companies Become Great