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!
SAS No. 122, AU 240, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit
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Webcast Only
3.00 Credits
The importance of professional skepticism The dangers of making assumptions How to listen and understanding the answer to a question Why it is important to leave all of your expectations at home Anticipation and why it’s so dangerous Determining materiality The fraud triangle Thinking about, given a set of circumstances, how you would steal Management and the Tone At the Top
The Ethics Hour: Thinking Through Decisions and Recognizing the Consequences
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
The high volume of ethical decisions we face every day The true value of paying attention Understanding how each decision we make will have consequences Are you prepared for the consequences?
Are You Qualified? The Ethics of Practice Development and Skill Enhancement
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
The Catch-22 of Practice Development and Skill Enhancement The Ethics of Education and Experience Requirements Examples of Skill-Expansion Resources Practice- and Skill-Expansion Cases to Consider Conclusion
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
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)
Financial Acumen for the HR Professional
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Webcast Only
1.20 Credits
Financial Statement Insight Trend Analysis Financial Benchmarks
To Verify or Let It Fly: What to Do About Questionable Tax Return Information
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Clear Reflection of Income: Really? The Verification Drill Tax Ethics and the Conceptual Framework The Tax Uncertainties Dance (Tax and Financial Reporting) Cases and Controversies Blanco v. United States U.S. v. Fairchild Conclusion
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
2023 Compliance Update on Arbitration Agreements, Severance Agreements, Confidentiality and Non-Disparagement Agreements
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Federal laws providing greater visibility of sexual harassment and sexual assault claims Agency rulings curtailing confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in agreements
Coaching Leaders to Handle Sensitive Employee Relations Situations
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Webcast Only
1.20 Credits
Employee complaints Personality & attitude problems Performance counseling Personal hygiene problems Disability-related performance issues Misconduct due to mental conditions
Indirect Rate Recovery for Non-Profits & Pass-Through Entities
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Indirect rates Sub-recipient relationship with PTEs PPP loan forgiveness credit The District of Columbia and MD laws on settlement of indirect rates with PTEs 10% de mnimis rate vs. indirect rate negotiation
Budgeting: Presenting and Communicating your Numbers
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
360 Budgeting: A Holistic Approach to Process and Solutions
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting & Rolling Financial Forecasts
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
The shift to “predictive accounting” for Decision Making, Planning, and Budgeting Problems with traditional annual budget processes Develop a driver-based “operational budget” based on resource capacity planning Classify resource capacities and their expenses as sunk, fixed, step-variable, and variable Create closed loop capacity plans Forecast demand for budgeting and rolling financial forecasts Integrating enterprise risk management (ERM) with management accounting Applying target costing for cost estimating
Understanding and Preventing Budget Calamities
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
Profitability Pricing: Boost your Bottom Line
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Competitive bids Achieving target profitability
Building Flexible Budgeting Models: Walking Through and Crunching The Numbers
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Budget defining, Budget cultures Tacticle budget issues Ideas for budget solutions and process solutions Understanding people in the budget process Communicating your budget to non financial types
Progressive Management Accounting
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
A taxonomy of accounting: tax, financial, managerial A spectrum of direct and indirect absorption costing Fact-based Data with Activity Based Costing (ABC ) Why do we need advanced management accounting techniques, such as ABC? How the ABC cost assignment network structure connects costs to products and sales channels Learn to use ABC to manage product, service-line, channel, and customer profitability Understand two views of costs: (1) process view versus (2) product view Comparing ABC with time-driven ABC, resource consumption accounting (RCA), lean accounting, and other costing techniques Operational Costing to Optimize Process Costs - How driver-based budgets and rolling financial forecasts lead to productivity improvement and cost reduction Applying “Attributes” to assess ”value-added costs” and “costs of quality (COQ)” The Shift in ROI’s Source from Tangible to Intangible Assets Increasing the ROI from information – with Corporate Performance Management (CPM) as a Value-Multiplier Accelerating the Rate of Adoption for Implementing and CPM Understand the barriers that slow the adoption rate of CPM: technical, misperceptions, model design, and social / cultural How to overcome behavioral resistance to change
Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Analytics (BA)
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
The Rise of Business Intelligence (BI), Business Analytics (BA), and Big Data Why the interest in BI and BA? The analytics continuum How BA can provide a competitive advantage The difference between BI and BA The difference between forecasting and predictive analytics Fundamentals of analytical techniques Examples for the CFO and accounting function Benefits from applying analytics The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the accounting profession