CPE Catalog & Events
CPE & Event Classes
MTCPA offers thousands of live and online courses to meet your professional development needs. Our goal is to enhance your knowledge and help you achieve even greater success.
Most MTCPA classes are available both LIVE [In-Person] and VIRTUAL [MTCPA Webcasts (in-house) or Webinars (other providers)], so please be sure to register for the correct format under the appropriate tab below.
Also check out our on-demand learning platform, allowing you to earn CPE at your convenience. You can choose stand-alone courses or opt for an all-access subscription to our entire Anytime library. Click the Anytime CPE tab below to explore the courses!
Unlocking the Magic: The Secret to Creating Teams that Flourish and Defining Value Partnering
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Future of finance Business partnering Successful teams Generate value Emerging technologies
Financial Statement Disclosures: A Guide for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Financial statement disclosures for small and medium-sized businesses, Balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows presentation and disclosure issues, Disclosure examples from all sized entities which you can use to base your disclosures on Developing disclosure issues, including disclosures related to the adoption of Topic 606
Assessing the Real Ethics of an Organization?, featuring Joe Oringel, MBA, CPA, CIA and Don Minges, MBA
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
What are the signs of an ethical versus unethical organization? The need for clear policies Policies should be detailed, clear and unambiguous The importance of ‘doing the right thing when no one else is looking’ How exceptions offer opportunities to the unethical Should exceptions be allowed?
The Ethics Hour: I Can't Believe This Really Happened - Real World Ethics Stories
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Understanding how to make ethical choices How to solve problems compassionately Dealing with bad behavior Learning from real world situations
Navigating Leaves of Absence
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Family Medical Leave Act - full time and intermittent Americans With Disabilities Act Special rules for managers Handling fraud, abuse, and performance issues in connection with a leave of absence
Communication Miracles At Work and In Life - Part 2
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
1. Why people behave as they do, and how you can effectively motivate anyone to cooperate with you How to judge if your communication is effective in motivating someone How to get someone to really hear you How to communicate so that someone will happily do what you want 2. How to create trust and get people to like working with you The 3 most important keys for getting someone to feel rapport with you Why rapport is so important, and how to use it to profit in your work How to quickly solve problems with people once you have their rapport 3. How to handle difficult people Why some people are difficult to deal with, and what you can do about it How you can turn a difficult employee or customer into a powerful asset How to easily solve problems with people who are upset at you 4. Secret techniques that super-successful communicators use How Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton are similar, and how you can tap into their "magic abilities" The three most important keys all successful communicators use
Internal Controls - Why They Are Important
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Internal Control History COSO Internal Control Framework Types of Internal Controls Are Internal Controls Infallible? Who is Responsible for Internal Controls? Why Document Controls?
Surgent's Ensure Your Accounting Team Is Operating at Peak Performance Through Engagement and Motivation
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Increase productivity and profitability Communicate better and resolve conflict Learn teamwork principles in today's changing accounting workplace Motivate yourself and your team
Surgent's Going Concern Accounting and Reporting Considerations
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Current FASB accounting standards related to going concern, including the new requirements of ASU 2014-15 Evaluating risk of material misstatement in financial reports related to improper presentation and disclosure of going concern uncertainty The responsibility of an independent accountant for evaluating going concern uncertainty under various levels of engagement to perform attest and nonattest services New requirements of SAS No. 132 and SSARS No. 24 related to an auditor’s responsibility for considering going concern uncertainty?
Surgent's Understanding Partnership Taxation: Debt Allocations
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Recourse debt allocations Constructive liquidation scenarios Nonrecourse debt allocations Minimum gains and nonrecourse deductions Section 704(c) gains Allocations under 704(c)
Surgent's 2024 Tax Changes and Year-end Planning Opportunities
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act U.S. Supreme Court overturns Chevron and Varian Medical Systems Status of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting New fiduciary rule for financial professionals, including CPAs New Department of Labor overtime rules Expansion of the IRS’ direct file program Banning of most non-compete agreements IRS Notice 2024-35: Certain Required Minimum Distributions for 2024 IRS finalizes RMD regulations Medicare changes in 2024, including IRMAA Section 179D in 2024 Proposed stock buyback regulations Health savings account changes for 2024 Transfer and direct pay of energy credits New Department of Labor definition of an “employee” Crypto update and cost basis reporting Section 72(t) changes: Notice 2024-55 Basis-shifting transactions: Notice 2024-54 IRS settlement offer letters to taxpayers who participated in syndicated conservation easement transactions Qualified charitable distributions update Status of IRS audits of Employee Retention Tax Credit claims Changes to commissions of real estate professionals IRS Form 1099-DA, Digital Asset Proceeds from Broker Transactions IRS Form 7217: Partner’s Report of Property Distributed by a Partnership Excess 529 funds contributed to a Roth IRA
Surgent's Successful Communication
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
The communication process and barriers that get in the way Techniques for overcoming barriers Understanding and self-assessment of each component of the communication process Gaining skills to listen more effectively, especially in stressful situations with heightened emotions Action plan to apply techniques in the workplace for communication success
The Ethics Hour: Deceit and the Whys Behind the Lies: Understanding Ethics
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Understanding yourself and others in the workplace How emotion plays a vital role in ethical dilemmas and in solutions What are some of the various outlooks on ethics? Recognizing lies Managing ethics towards solutions
Top Employment Tools to Protect Your Business and Recommend to Business Clients
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
arbitration agreements confidentiality agreements restrictive covenants training severance agreements
The Ethics Hour: The Single Best and Most Overlooked Source of Fraud
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
One key area to look for fraud? It is right in front of you, but some auditors fail to see it Recognize the signals Look for those who exploit or and game the system(s)
The Ethical Side of Trust, featuring Richard A. Karwic and Don Minges
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
The seven components of trust High standards, loyalty, doing the right thing, listen, empathy and accountability The value of trust How ethics relates to trust and how trust relates to ethics
Financial Acumen for the HR Professional
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Webcast Only
1.20 Credits
Financial Statement Insight Trend Analysis Financial Benchmarks
Introduction to Yellow Book
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Ethical requirements and independence Reporting Financial statement audit differences
Emerging Innovations in Forensic Data Analytics, Crypto Currencies and AI, ChatGPT
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
AI and ChatGPT Machine learning & predictive transaction tagging Profiles of an improper or corrupt vendor payment Data Sharing Consortium and Split Learning Techniques Cryptocurrency trends and applications from an accountant's perspective
Surgent's Improving Your Profits: Identifying Cost Cutting Opportunities
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
What keeps companies from becoming streamlined? Behavioral biases Information processing biases Emotional biases How to deal with behavioral biases Connecting behavioral biases to cost cutting Creating a culture of cost cutting Rules of thumb for cost cutting Managing headcount Post-COVID common areas of excess cost Budgeting techniques Budget variances Benchmarking Common size financial statements Horizontal analysis Negotiation and contracting techniques Cash flow and the business cycle