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!
Small Firm Update
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Webcast Only
0.00 Credits
Small firm finance trends Common pitfalls Best practices used across the country Q&A session
HR Guide to Evolving Business Strategy, Finance and Development
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Webcast Only
1.20 Credits
Corporate Culture Strategic Planning Leadership Staff Development
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
Introduction to Single Audit
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Uniform Guidance Internal Controls over Compliance Reporting
Balance Sheet Management: The Least Understood Risk
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Understanding your balance sheet Analyze your balance sheet today and in the future Plan your balance sheet structure Properly balance debt and equity versus other funding sources Know the balance sheet pitfalls and risks to avoid Understand your cost of capital Interpret your cost of capital Evaluate the risks, pros and cons of debt Know how to raise debt Understand the risks, pros and cons of equity Examine alternative methods to raise financing Understand the decision process through real-world examples
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
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
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
Cost of Capital: What it is and How to Use it
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Webcast Only
2.00 Credits
Find your organization’s cost of debt Calculate the cost of equity Understanding your Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) Interpret your cost of capital Properly use the cost of capital to make decisions Avoid common cost of capital mistakes
Common Yellow Book & Single Audit Deficiencies - 2023
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Major Program Determination Internal Controls over Compliance Sampling & Reporting Yellow Book Independence & CPE
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
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
The Bottom Line on the New Lease Accounting Requirements
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Lease classification Amortization of the leased asset Derecognition of the underlying asset Recognition of lease receivables Lease modifications Sale and leaseback transactions
Advanced Tax Planning S Corporations - Tax Staff Essentials
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
S corporation current developments: tax planning impact Compensation planning Basis in S corporation stock Distributions Use of qualified subchapter S subsidiaries Liquidations, reorganizations, and redemptions Estate planning and use of trusts
Forensic Accounting: Fraud Investigations
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
Evidence in the investigative process Tools used in forensic investigations Conducting interviews Forensic accounting reports Expert witness testimony
Governmental and Not-for-Profit Annual Update
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
GASB update Not-for-profit accounting update Revenue recognition in not-for-profits FASB's lease standard - FASB update Auditor's report and conforming changes Auditing Standards Board update SSARS and SSAE update Governmental auditing update
Eight Biggest Threats to your business and introducing Three Pillars of Cybersecurity
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Webcast Only
1.00 Credits
Technology Cybersecurity
Balance Sheet Management: The Least Understood Risk
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Webcast Only
4.00 Credits
Understanding your balance sheet Analyze your balance sheet today and in the future Plan your balance sheet structure Properly balance debt and equity versus other funding sources Know the balance sheet pitfalls and risks to avoid Understand your cost of capital Interpret your cost of capital Evaluate the risks, pros and cons of debt Know how to raise debt Understand the risks, pros and cons of equity Examine alternative methods to raise financing Understand the decision process through real-world examples
Live Webinar K2
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Webcast Only
8.00 Credits
• Best practices associated with creating Excel workbooks, including managing workbooks• How to secure Excel workbooks• Collaboration options and best practices in Excel• Effective reporting techniques in Excel