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!
Doing Debt Differently - Your Roadmap to Changes & Choices for Success
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Webcast Only
4.40 Credits
Education that is also transformation Key Learning Objectives A word collage to clarify your starting point with debt Practical and emotional aspects of debt Your current story about debt 3 myths and 3 truths about debt that will help you start over A new philosophy on Doing Debt Differently Key concepts that lead to success in becoming debt free A petition for debt freedom Facing your debt problem and creating relief The six ways to find relief – awareness, letting go, identifying debt patterns, creating your new relationship, the alchemy process, inspired actions Creating your personal plan for debt freedom Review and tips for continued success The secret to success is support How to build your success team
K2'S 2022 Artificial Intelligence For Accounting And Financial Professionals
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Webcast Only
4.60 Credits
Information Technology Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Surgent's Advanced Individual Income Tax Return Issues
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
New issues for the current year tax return and §199A Installment sales — understanding the complicated issues Form 8582: Passive losses with carryovers — Complicated case with filled-in forms Puts, calls, straddling, and unusual investments — Understanding the tax laws and reporting them correctly on the tax return Capital gain and loss issues — The problem with proper reporting of installment sales issues; capital gains and losses; when is a stock worthless; and much more… At-risk rules: What a return preparer really needs to know Passive loss issues — You can't just trust your software. What to watch out for and the questions you need your clients to answer in order to do it right! Incentive and nonqualified stock options — Reporting; key strategies for planning; dealing with the alternative minimum tax Alternative minimum tax — Understanding it; planning strategies to avoid it; using the minimum tax credit; explaining it to a client Form 6251: Detailed calculation example
Surgent's Annual Tax-Planning Guide for S Corporations, Partnerships, and LLCs
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
Update on latest cases, rulings, and regulations including the final regs Provisions of Revenue Procedure 2022-19: Relief for S corporations Legislative update on retirement plan changes of the SECURE Act 2.0 How to handle liabilities of LLCs Planning opportunities and pitfalls in determining basis and amounts at risk -- recourse and nonrecourse debt issues for LLCs, and much more Section 199A pass-through deduction planning Partnership planning -- Structuring partnership distributions and transfers of interests Optional basis adjustments -- §§754 and 732(d) Planning for the utilization of §179 and for the scheduled phase out of bonus depreciation beginning in 2024 Basis, distribution, redemption, and liquidation issues of S corporations Compensation in S corporations Sale of a partnership -- the best planning concepts What you need to know about family pass-throughs -- Estate planning, family income splitting, and compensation planning Partnership and LLC allocations A brief look at possible future changes to the taxation of pass-through entities The who, what, when, where, and how of the new FinCEN BOI reporting requirements
The Best S Corporation, Limited Liability, and Partnership Update Course by Surgent
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
Comprehensive coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act, including: The Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax, The Clean Vehicle Credit, Credit for Previously Owned Clean Vehicles, Credit for Qualified Commercial Clean Vehicles, §45L New Energy Efficient Home Credit, Elective Payment, Transferability, and Prevailing Wage and Apprenticeship Requirements Principles and considerations for nonresident withholding, composite payments, and passthrough entity taxes Comprehensive coverage of the SECURE 2.0 Act with a focus on provisions applicable to employers Thinking beyond §163(j) -- Interest Allocation Rules, Original Issue Discount, Applicable High Yield Discount Obligations, Convertible Corporate Debt Instruments, and Debt-Financed Distributions Retirements and redemptions: considerations for partnerships and S corporations Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Selected Practice and Reporting Issues: What’s new? A review of recent cases and tax law changes and IRS guidance affecting S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, and limited liability partnerships Form 1099-K reporting requirements Bonus depreciation in 2024 Section 174 Research & Experimental Expenditures -- new guidance under Notice 2023-63 and Notice 2024-12 New FinCEN reporting requirements in 2024, including recently updated FAQs Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
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
Surgent's Getting Ready for Busy Season: Review Individual Tax Form Changes
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Major 2024 tax form changes as they relate to individual taxpayers Key new tax developments as they relate to 2024 and how they impact the 2024 tax forms
Surgent's S Corporation Core Tax Issues From Formation Through Liquidation
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
What exactly is terminating S corporations, including recent rulings Schedules K-2 and K-3 reporting requirements and filing exceptions Form 7203, S Corporation Shareholder Stock and Debt Basis Limitations Shareholder changes Living Trust and causes S termination LLCs electing S status, changing agreement could terminate election Inherited a new client with reporting errors? What are my options? Debt vs. equity and §385; Federal Express battled and won, how do we? Are we to expect SECA tax on pass-through entities? Shareholders losing “substance over form” argument Basis neither increased by phantom income, nor reduced by non-deducted pass-through losses Can I accrue expenses payable to a shareholder? Sure, but can I deduct them? How §179 limitations affect S corp. basis Comparison of liquidation of a C corporation vs. the liquidation of an S corporation Did not timely file Form 2553? A simple method to correct Is there a “flexible standard of law” in regard to closely held entities?
K2's 2023 Accounting Solutions Mid-Market
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Probable third-party solutions required Accounting solutions for specific industries Specific strategies to use in selecting a system Guidance on preparatory steps and conversions
AI and Data Analytics for Auditing - The Big Picture
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Data Analytics and AI in Auditing and Accounting
The Seven High Quality Questions that Lead to Success & Solutions
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Webcast Only
2.50 Credits
Tolerations Goal setting Gratitude Setting a 'tone' of success Priorities as a means to mindful living Reflection & Planning as tools to generate clarity & intention Connecting with the wise resource often overlooked in business models
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
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)
K2's 2023 Kicking It Up A Notch With KPIs
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
How to look for data in your existing systems The basics of data prep tools Tools for tracking and reporting on KPIs
MBAexpress: The Art of Effective Writing - V 2.0
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Formatting words for readability Making your point Active writing versus passive writing Choosing words for understandability Using emoticons and punctuation Bad writing examples
Business Communication Essentials (Dynamic Communication in the Workplace)
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Communication Feedback Management Leadership
Surgent's Purchase and Sale of a Residence: Critical Tax Issues
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
General rules relating to the sale of a residence under § 121 Sale of a taxpayer’s main home Qualifying for a partial exclusion of gain on the sale of a home How a taxpayer meets the residence requirement Meeting the look-back requirement Separated, divorced, and widowed taxpayers Work-related moves and unforeseeable events Inherited homes and homes received in a divorce Impact of business or rental use of home on the gain exclusion Reporting gain or loss on the sale of a home
Surgent's Understanding Non-Compete Agreements
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Enforcement of non-compete agreements from the employer’s perspective Opposing enforcement of non-compete agreements from the employee’s perspective Understanding reasonable geographic scope and time limitations for non-compete agreements Understanding key issues that arise during enforcement and opposition to enforcement of non-compete agreements.
Surgent's What CPAs Should Know About Trust Instruments
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Legal definitions & principals involving estates & trusts Basic principles regarding property ownership Types of trusts commonly used Trust accounting fundamentals Certain clauses that are important to understand Formula valuation clauses Requirements for a trust to be a qualified designated beneficiary of an IRA Using IRD to fund charitable bequests
The Ethics Hour: Ethics in the Real World
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
The difficult trade-offs in making choices Functioning in the ‘gray’ areas The value of trust Consequences of ‘short-term it-is’ How lack of accountability can lead to ethical issues