Events

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10 Soft Skills You Need

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD007520
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

The meaning of Soft Skills can sometimes be difficult to describe. It can be that unique attribute or characteristic that facilitates great communication. It can be the special way that you show confidence in a challenging situation. These and other events can become more easily managed with this great workshop.

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A Scary Ride Through the Dark Web

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD006620
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

You have heard of the Dark Web, but have you experienced it? If not, buckle in for a scary ride through the underbelly of the Internet. Here many illicit and illegal activities occur every day, potentially affecting our personal and organizational security. In this session, you will experience first-hand the ... More Info

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Accessing & Cleaning Data with Excel®, Power Query, & Power BI®

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD009720
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

While there are a wide range of ways to analyze data, one must first retrieve, scrub, and organize data effectively before any of those techniques can be used. This session will help users understand and utilize end-user data retrieval tools like Microsoft® Power Query as well as content packs for ... More Info

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Accounting for Decision Makers

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD014820
• CPE Credits: 2

In today’s current climate businesses are having to make decisions regarding cost control. This current climate requires decisions related to cost, volume and pricing changes to help you make critical decisions.  Many of these decisions will start with a break-even analysis when you have a single product or service or ... More Info

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Advanced Excel® Functions & Formulas

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD010820
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

Excel® has more than 450 functions, many of which are unused by business professionals. This session will put you on a path to improved Excel productivity by introducing you to powerful but little used Excel functions, such as IFS (for nested IF statements), AGGREGATE (best described as SUBTOTAL on steroids), ... More Info

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Advanced Excel® Reporting: Best Practices, Tools, & Techniques

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD008420
• CPE Credits: 4

• Available with CPE Select

If you need to build advanced Excel® reports, including reports where the source data resides in your accounting software or another database, then this program should be at the top of your CPE list! In this seminar, you will learn how to use Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and Online Analytic ... More Info

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Advanced QuickBooks® Tips & Techniques

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD008520
• CPE Credits: 4

• Available with CPE Select

QuickBooks® remains one of the leading accounting solutions for small and growing businesses and Intuit has added numerous advanced features to the application over the past few releases. In this seminar, you will learn how to take advantage of many of QuickBooks’ new and advanced features to solve important issues. ... More Info

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An Introduction to Tax Accounting (ASC 740 Tax Provisions)

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD000120
• CPE Credits: 6

• Available with CPE Select

There is an abundance of complex, advanced material on tax accounting. In contrast, this introductory course explains the “how” and “why” of tax-accounting concepts and mechanics according to ASC 740 (U.S. GAAP) using clear, practical, and understandable language along with visual examples.

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Anticipate Client Needs: Beyond Best Practices in Client and CustomerService

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD000520
• CPE Credits: 1

Customer Service is moving to Customer Experience, and modern firms must keep up with their clients, or fail at sustainability. Competition is no longer just down the street. Clients are demanding more value, and wanting a shift from reactive reporting to real time services. In the future, the customer experience ... More Info

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Anticipate Development: Moving From Employee to Manager to Leader

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD000820
• CPE Credits: 1

First-time supervisors face unique challenges as they transition to management. They must supervise work with which they may be unfamiliar, and supervise employees with whom they had previously been co-workers or employees with greater seniority. They must understand the extent of responsibility and decision-making authority they have, finding ways to ... More Info

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Anticipate Engagement: Motivating the Next Workforce

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD000920
• CPE Credits: 1

Productivity. Low turnover. High performance culture. None of these buzzwords work if the organization’s engagement process is broken and people are underperforming. It’s time to look beyond the “buzzwords” and truly rethink motivation and performance management instead of tweaking “business as usual”. Good performers can become bad performers, and bad ... More Info

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Anticipate Inclusion: Building a Sustainable Culture of Diversity

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD002220
• CPE Credits: 1

There’s a perfect storm going on. We’ve got the new economy, a new generation coming online, and we have LinkedIn pulling people away from us and bringing them to us. Also, there’s ethical issues. All of these issues surround and apply to the issue of diversity. Simply put, diversity is ... More Info

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Assuming Responsibility: The Science of Great Leadership

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD005020
• CPE Credits: 1

• Available with CPE Select

Leaderships skills have never been more important, in all industries and at all levels, whether executive or front-line employee. Organizations succeed in meaningful ways when their individual members have ability to inspire action, build trust, solve complex problems, coordinate effective teams, and resolve contentious conflicts without damaging important relationships. This ... More Info

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Audit-think: The New Critical Thinking for Auditors

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD007420
• CPE Credits: 1

• Available with CPE Select

This workshop, designed especially for audit professionals, teaches the development of powerful, higher-order critical thinking skills. Dr. Groves uses the very latest cognitive research related to auditing to teach reasoning processes that are most effective for accurate interpretation, better prioritization and smarter decision making during the audit process. The session ... More Info

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Best Word®, Outlook®, and PowerPoint® Features

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD003020
• CPE Credits: 4

• Available with CPE Select

Most professionals routinely use Word®, Outlook®, and PowerPoint®, but many are self-taught and, as a result, have not been exposed to the best features of these three applications. Consequently, they often use “brute force,” inefficient means when working in these three components of Microsoft® Office. If that describes you, then ... More Info

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Beyond the Code: Ethics in the Real World

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD005120
• CPE Credits: 2

This innovative and interactive presentation taps the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and even biology to understand the point where science, emotion, and critical thinking interact. Instead of critiquing how our minds are supposed to work, we will delve inside the fascinating world of how our minds actually work when we ... More Info

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Beyond the Code: The Science of Ethics

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD005220
• CPE Credits: 1

This session delves into the fascinating neuroscience behind how our minds really work when we face conflicting motivations or difficult dilemmas for which there is no obvious best answer. Attendees will explore real-life dilemmas and learn effective cognitive processes to deal with those dilemmas as revealed by the latest research ... More Info

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Blockchain & Emerging Technologies

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD002920
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

Blockchain and other emerging technologies will affect every industry and profession. For example, some products have already implemented machine learning and artificial intelligence to help you be more effective. Further, process automation tools are now available for small- and mid-sized businesses. In this “how-to” session, you will learn about emerging ... More Info

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Blockchain Technology: What Every CPA Should Know

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD008320
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

One of the most talked about new technologies that has the potential to significantly disrupt the accounting industry is Blockchain. This course is designed to bring you up to speed on what this revolutionary technology is all about. You will learn about the concepts, nomenclature, technology, and potential applications related ... More Info

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Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Your Excel® Workbooks

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: OD002720
• CPE Credits: 2

• Available with CPE Select

If you are an Office 365® subscriber, you should know that Microsoft® is bringing artificial intelligence to your Excel® workbooks. These leading edge features include ideas, new data types, the ability to insert data from a picture, and dynamic arrays. If you know how to use these tools, these AI-powered ... More Info

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Build Your Own Ethics: Compliance & Human Nature

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: ODE01520
• CPE Credits: 0.5

Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University has written a book,  The Honest Truth about Dishonesty which documents his research on why people have so much trouble being honest and playing by the rules. The human characteristics described in the book point out the challenges for CPAs, as humans, to ... More Info

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Build Your Own Ethics: Ethics for Auditors

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: ODE00620
• CPE Credits: 0.5

Do the right thing. Sounds simple, right? As a CPA and auditor, you face challenges, situations, and hurdles that may prevent you from identifying the right choice to make. In this half-hour ethics course, Melissa Critcher, CPA, briefly reviews the rules and regulations that apply to all NC CPAs and ... More Info

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Build Your Own Ethics: Ethics for New CPAs

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: ODE00720
• CPE Credits: 0.5

As a new CPA, you are aware of all the rules and regulations that govern the profession; however, rules and regulations aren’t ethics—ethics goes further. Melissa Critcher, CPA, addresses the questions or situations that CPAs often face when new to the profession. Discussion includes how to identify ethical issues, using ... More Info

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Build Your Own Ethics: Examining Courage & Compassion

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: ODE00920
• CPE Credits: 0.5

“Rules, Ethics and Virtues and the Greatest of These is Virtues- Examining Courage and Compassion” – In this course Dr. Cal Christian will examine the role virtues have in shaping our ethical behavior. You will examine how to identify virtues and apply them to your daily life. The two virtues that will be examined ... More Info

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Build Your Own Ethics: Examining Wisdom, Responsibility, & More

• 12:00 am–11:59 pm ET

• Event Code: ODE01420
• CPE Credits: 0.5

“Rules, Ethics and Virtues and the Greatest of These is Virtues – Examining Wisdom, Responsibility and More.” – In this course Dr. Cal Christian will examine the role virtues have in shaping our ethical behavior. You will examine how to identify virtues and apply them to your daily life. The virtues that will be ... More Info

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