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!
Preparing for & Conducting Discharge Meetings
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Webcast Only
1.20 Credits
Issues to be evaluated pre-discharge. Off-site/off work-misconduct. Pre-discharge interviews Resignations Discharge meetings Exit Interviews Reference checks
K2's 2023 Safeguarding Taxpayer Data - A Guide For Your RequiredSecurity Plan
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Understand the need to protect client data Learn about the required security and privacy standards Leave with a sample plan to consider your tax practice
Measuring Audit Risks
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Webcast Only
3.00 Credits
The planning process – When it starts and when it ends Determining the audit objectives The importance of the nature, timing and extent of the audit process The importance of professional skepticism The preliminary engagement activities Documentation of audit risk Determining materiality
Cost and Pricing Models: Creating an Effective Tool
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Building computer costing models & sub models The importance of volume sensitive models Your twelve most important indirect costs Using rate tables Modeling – Professional Services Job Costs Modeling – Repetitive Manufacturing Why return on sales may be an inferior way to plan for profit
2024 White-Collar Crime: What Every CPA Should Know
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Definitions of white-collar crime White-collar crime characteristics and statistics The CPA’s role in combating white-collar crime
Construction Contractors: Auditing Considerations
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Auditing contractor accounting and revenue from contracts with customers Planning and risk assessment for construction contractors Key internal controls Substantive procedures for long-term contractors
AICPA's Annual Federal Tax Update
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
Strategies for tax savings Business entity changes IRS administrative issues, compliance, and new forms Court cases settled in the last year that provide tax return guidance Position authority IRS rulings, procedures, and notices for the last year New, updated, and expiring tax deductions and credits
Business Valuation Fundamentals
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Business Valuation Fundamentals The Objective - What type of report is needed? The Process Agreed Upon Procedures Calculation of Value Conclusion of Value Industry Sanity Checks – Would you pay or accept the value if it were your company?
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
Drive Results with Metrics
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Performance Metrics Budgets
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
Achieving Balance in Work and Life - Part 2
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Why we get off balance and how to overcome those tendencies Methods that turbo charge motivation, health and happiness The power of culture and friends to affect our lives The importance of clear intention in order to effect change that lasts
Becoming a Tax Ninja: Lightning-Fast Depreciation
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
We'll cover the following important topics: Bonus depreciation after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Schedule 179 and its application to real property. How and when the de minimis rules can be used on residential real property remodels. Utilizing the partial disposition election when remodeling real property.
Forms 1120-S and 1065 Return Review Boot Camp for New and Experienced Reviewers
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
Reviews of portions of error-prone "staff-prepared" Forms 1120S and 1065 from client-provided information, What are common errors preparers make and what are the areas generating malpractice claims? Initial administrative groundwork, The importance of Schedule M-1, Reporting requirements for Schedules K-2 and K-3, Don't fall prey to reporting oddities, When can seemingly separately stated Schedule K items actually be trade or business items to report on Forms 1120S or 1065, page 1? Form 1120S - What exactly is terminating S elections today? How do I recognize a second class of stock? Maintaining shareholder basis schedules; beware of final IRS regulations regarding "open debt"; the default method of calculating basis versus the election under Schedule 1367; can an S corporation distribute earnings and profits from C corporation years? Form 1065 - Why use Schedule 704(b) to maintain capital accounts; Schedule 704(c) regulations for preventing the shifting of tax consequences among partners or members; allocating recourse, nonrecourse, and qualified nonrecourse debt; a review of Schedule 754 step-up in basis rules, Multiple checklists of efficient procedures to identify potential issues on an 1120S or 1065 tax return
2024 Was It Fraud or Just Poor Audit Quality?
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Webcast Only
1.60 Credits
Financial statement manipulation Ethics enforcement process Auditor conflicts of interest
Introduction to Yellow Book
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Ethical requirements and independence Reporting Financial statement audit differences
Inventory Accounting GAAP, Software and Recognizing Variances
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Inventory accounting GAAP Methods for dealing with variances
Financial Statement Fraud
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Financial statement fraud
Profitability Pricing: Boost your Bottom Line
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Competitive bids Achieving target profitability
Auditing For Fraud
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Auditing Fraud