CPE Catalog & Events

FASB & AICPA Update for Tax Professionals (Highlights) 26-27

Broadly applicable ASU effective in 2025 and beyond  Significant recent SAS 

Small Business Retirement Plans: Picking the Right Plan for Your Client

Which clients are best suited for each of the following plans: SEP-IRA's. Which clients are best suited for each of the following plans: SIMPLE IRA's, 401(k)'s, Traditional and Roth IRA's, Defined benefit plans. How will SEP Roth and SIMPLE Roth contributions work under the SECURE Act 2.0? What are the payroll tax consequences of choosing each type of plan. Which plans provide the greatest flexibility? Which plan can provide the quickest accumulation of retirement savings?

Comprehensive S Corporation Taxation Form 1120S 26-27

Learn how to qualify and to make the S corporation election Determine how to calculate initial and annual stock and debt basis amounts and the three reasons why they are maintained Understand the four loss limitation rules applied on the shareholder's individual income tax return (i.e., basis, at-risk, passive, and excess business loss limitations) Understand the proper tax treatment and reporting of a distribution from the S corporation to a shareholder Determine how to calculate AAA and OAA account for an S corporation as well as the 3 potential taxes Determine the impact of health insurance, the net investment income tax, qualified business income tax deduction and unreasonable compensation issues on the reporting function of the S corporation

Leases: ASC Topic 842 in Depth 26-27

FASB ASC 842, Leases All recently released updates to ASC 842, Leases

Social Security Basics and Strategies for Maximizing Benefits 26-27

Social Security planning, benefit calculation, and beneficiaries Recent changes to "file and suspend" and "restricted application" strategies Increasing benefits for divorced and surviving spouses Early retirement and the earnings test An overview of the obstacles beneficiaries face when claiming Social Security disability benefits Integrating retirement plan distribution strategies with Medicare and Social Security claiming strategies

Surgent's Guide to the AICPA Quality Management Standards

Quality management standards SAS 146, SSARS No. 26, and SSAE 23 Risk assessment, which forms the basis of the SQM Monitoring and evaluating the SQM

Tax Basis Financial Statements 26-27

Tax basis financial statements presentation and disclosure   Reporting on tax-basis financial statements 

Surgent's Controller/CFO Update: Hot Topics Facing Today's Financial Professional

Economic update Leadership and management changes because of recent developments, including AI Managing for productivity Hiring the best people for the organization New motivation techniques

Surgent's Federal Tax Update

Comprehensive coverage of individual provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including but not limited to: TCJA provisions made permanent New Tip Income Deduction New Overtime Pay Deduction New Car Loan Interest Deduction New Temporary Senior Deduction Expanded SALT Cap Trump Accounts Comprehensive coverage of business provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including but not limited to: Bonus Depreciation made permanent Increased §179 deduction Changes to §174 R&E Expenditures Changes to §163(j) Form 1099/1099-K changes Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion  The Gig Economy - examine key tax implications for gig workers, including Independent Contractor vs. Employee classification challenges and employer reporting responsibilities Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Advanced practice, reporting, and other issues intertwined with advanced planning and discussion ideas

Surgent's IRS Tax Examinations and Hot Issues

Criteria that the IRS uses to select returns for examination Substantiation requirements for travel, charitable contributions, vehicles, meals, virtual currency considerations, and tax-related identity theft Understanding worker classification determinations on who is an employee and who is an independent contractor Distinguishing S corporation officer’s reasonable compensation issues How the IRS holds persons other than an employer liable for unpaid payroll taxes, a.k.a., the trust fund recovery penalty Tax-related identity theft procedures

Surgent’s Weekly Expert Hour

Each week’s topics will change based on the most critical issues affecting financial professionals

Turning IT Budgeting into a Competitive Advantage

Surgent's Guide to Partner Capital Account Reporting

How a partner’s outside basis and capital account differ Reconciling Schedule M-2 Form 1065 with Partnership K-1 Schedule L IRS requirement to report partner tax basis on the transactional approach Implications if a capital account is negative Deficit restoration accounts and qualified income offsets Modified outside basis method and modified previously taxed capital method Determining a partner’s beginning capital account  Beginning capital account for partnerships and partners consistently reporting on the tax basis The two types of adjustments under 754 and how 743 and 734 require different capital account presentations

Surgent's Tax Practitioner Horror Stories

Tax practitioner “horror stories” that illustrate what tax practitioners should try to avoid at all costs Avoiding malpractice lawsuits brought against tax practitioners

Surgent's Mastering Accounting for Income Taxes

The sources of deferred tax assets and liabilities Calculating the deferred tax asset or liability Reporting income-tax expense and balance sheet items Defining, analyzing, and reporting uncertain tax positions Classification of deferred tax assets and liabilities Disclosure requirements Finalized and proposed changes to ASC 740, including ASU 2023-09, CAMT, and global tax transparency initiatives

Surgent's Advanced Audits of 401(k) Plans: Best Practices and Current Developments

Audit requirements for ERISA §103(a)(3)(C) audits An annual update of the changes affecting 401(k) plans Compliance issues associated with eligibility and enrollments, remittances, lack of oversight, compensation, vesting, and other topics Best practices for engagement planning, internal controls, risk assessment, and detailed testing Avoiding common mistakes while performing audit procedures Plan mergers and acquisitions Common audit reporting and disclosure issues

Surgent's Handbook for Mastering Basis, Distributions, and Loss Limitation Issues for S Corporations, LLCs, and Partnerships

Timely coverage of breaking tax legislation Applicable coverage of any basis considerations within any recent tax legislation   Passthrough basis calculations required as attachments to certain individual returns  Executor’s form for disclosing basis in certain distributed property; what about the basis of a property distribution from a trust?  How §179 limitations affect basis and how tax-benefit rule is applied  Basis implications of personal assets converted to business use  How to calculate basis of inherited qualified and joint tenancy property  Tax basis capital account reporting requirements  S corporations: Beware of final IRS regulations regarding “open debt”; determine how to calculate basis; worksheets are included; understand the effect of stock basis and debt basis and IRS’s recent focus on “at-risk basis” for shareholders; recognize how AAA applies or doesn’t apply to S corporations; learn to apply the complex basis ordering rules and special elections that can have a big tax result; discuss loss limitation rules in depth; when you can have a taxable dividend in an S corporation; understand distributions of cash and property; understand the post-termination transition rules, and temporary post-termination rules for eligible corporations, which will be important for S corps returning to C corps  LLCs and partnerships: Learn the detailed rules of §704 for preventing the shifting of tax consequences among partners or members; learn to calculate basis under §704 & for “at-risk” under §465; recognize how recourse, nonrecourse, and qualified nonrecourse debt can create significantly different tax results; learn the difference between basis and “at-risk basis”; review §754 step-up in basis rules; the economic effect equivalence test or “dumb-but-lucky” rule; learn to apply the complex rules of distribution of cash vs. property, and the basis treatment of charitable contributions and foreign taxes paid 

Surgent's Ethics for Tax Professionals

What does practicing before the IRS mean? Who may practice before the IRS? What should a tax preparer do if he or she has knowledge of a client's omission of income from a tax return? May a tax preparer rely on the work of other tax return preparers? May a tax preparer rely on and use client-provided information? Standards associated with giving advice to clients Abolition of the disclaimer requirement When must a tax preparer examine a client’s books and records?

Surgent's Taking Advantage of Installment Sales

How does the IRC define an installment sale under IRC section 453? When can a taxpayer utilize the provisions of IRC section 453? When should a taxpayer utilize the provisions of an installment sale, and when should it be avoided? How does the issue of a “dealer” vs. a “non-dealer” impact the use of the installment sale method? Reporting an installment sale when related parties are involved Calculating an installment sale How has the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act impacted the use of the installment sale method?

Shorten Month End: Closing Best Practices 26-27

Review and discuss information systems" headaches that slow you down Work through examples of close cycle "time killers" and how to resolve them Get inventory and cost of sales under control