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!
Negotiation Strategy: What to do Before, During and After
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Webcast Only
1.80 Credits
negotiation
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
Planning in an Uncertain World
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Why great predictions are not intuitive but the result of critical thinking, gathering information and updating predictions when needed How to separate correlation from causation How to recognize and overcome bias Who is Thomas Bayes and why he matters
Cash Forecasting, Reporting and Metrics - Managing the Lifeblood of the Business
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Key components of the Cash Flow model Receipts and Disbursements model Applying uniqueness for your organization, your industry, the macro environment Incorporating strategic analysis into cash forecasting Using reporting and metrics to make cash forecasting more complete Benchmarking as a tool to improve the accuracy of your cash forecasting
Conflicts of Interest: Dealing With Ethical Dilemmas in Business and Industry
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Do conflicts of interest matter? Are we aware of common conflicts of interest? What does the Code of Professional Conduct require? How to recognize Conflicts of Interest? Ethical issues regarding competence and gifts and entertainment. Tradeoffs involved in dealing with conflicts of interest? Suggestions on how to avoid conflicts of interest.
Business Longevity - Is Your Business Wobbling?
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Business Management Organization
How Culture Affects Risks
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Communicating core values Corporate culture built upon core values Risk awareness Behavioral-based interviewing
Small HR Team, Big Impact: 3 Employee Engagement Strategies for Lean HR Departments
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
HR Leadership Small HR Teams HR Department of One Employee Engagement Employee Experience Employee Journey
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
K2's 2023 Accessing And Managing Data In Excel
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Using Power Query to link data into Excel Manipulating Excel data with data transformations Creating data models using Power Query Examples of common and useful transformations
Reviewing S Corporation Tax Returns: What Are You Missing?
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Form 1120-S Schedule K-1 Schedule L Schedules M-1 and M-2 Form 4562 Form 4797
Creating a Culture of Trust: Build Loyal and Engaged Teams
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Webcast Only
1.50 Credits
Culture Trust
Ethics in the Real World - Living Values for Today
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Four root causes of unethical business behavior Eight steps to create an ethical business environment 1. Establish a code of conduct and make it public 2. Hire and promote people with a well-grounded sense of personal ethics 3. Interpret your code for ordinary circumstances 4. Communicate expectations for employees to act in an ethical manner 5. Lead by example 6. Teach employees the basic tools of ethical decision making 7. Back your code with enforcement 8. Factor values into every important organizational activity and decision The financial manager’s responsibility to lead and implement good ethics in his/her organization
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
Risk Management Techniques and Tools
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Enterprise risk management ISO 31000:2018 principles COSO ERM framework Tools and techniques in risk awareness and management Value stream perspective for enterprise risk management
Dashboard and Report Design Principles Using Excel
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
How to design charts for fastest possible user understanding and ease of use Review of case studies for group critique Developing a design standard for your organization Designing tables for rapid understanding and efficient space use How to use commentary, maintaining a consistent style and level of detail Using layout to support long-term memory and improve understanding The impact of trend methods on user understanding and a brief introduction to a statistically valid method for trend analysis. How to apply these techniques using Excel
Managing the Accounting Department
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Accounting Leadership Management
Defending Your Workplace Culture: Tackling the 4 Biggest Threats to Your Team Engagement and Cohesion
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Workplace Culture Team Culture Employee Engagement Employee Experience Communication Leadership
Connected Leadership: Foster and Retain an Engaged Team
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Leadership
Get Known, Get Connected, Get Ahead: Personal Connection for Professional Results
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Webcast Only
1.20 Credits
Relationships