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On-Demand Video Programs

Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 1: Pre-Engagement Activities: Session 1 is designed to provide participants with a solid understanding of the important judgment calls that are made before the audit engagement even begins. While these decisions are...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 2: Preliminary Planning Activities: Session 2 focuses on the initial information that is gathered and important conclusions that are reached at the on-set of engagement planning and the performance of certain risk assessm...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 3: Internal Control Considerations: Session 3 focuses on important internal control considerations. This includes both evaluating the design and implementation of internal controls, which is required on all engagements. I...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 4: Assessing and Responding to Risk: Session 4 focuses on how to appropriately identify, evaluate, document and respond to risks of material misstatement due to either fraud or error in order to effectively and efficiently...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 5: Substantive Testing: Session 5 focuses on performing the substantive audit procedures outlined in the detailed audit plan. Common deficiencies in performing and documenting these further audit procedures w...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 6: Engagement Wrap-Up: Session 6 focuses on all activities that occur during the wrap-up phase of the engagement. This aspect of an audit engagement is where all good intentions are at risk of unraveling and...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 7: Identifying, Evaluating,Communicating Internal Control Deficiencie: Session 7 focuses on how to properly fulfill the requirements for identifying, evaluating and communicating internal control deficiencies identified during the course of the financial s...
Auditing Bits in Bytes Session 8: Quality Control Considerations: Session 8 of this eight-part series emphasizes the key activities that ensure that appropriate quality control procedures were performed on the financial statement audit....
Best Practices in Accounting and Finance Writing: Being Clear and Accurate: Readers of finance and accounting documents expect the information to be complete, accurate, and readable - neither overly simplistic nor complex. Learn to select and apply language tha...
Best Practices in Accounting and Finance Writing: Putting Ideas in Order: Learn how to manage your thinking and create an organized document that highlights what you want your reader to know, think, and do. Participants will learn how to present ideas in the...
BLI Express - Leadership: Empowers leaders with business success skills -online video self-study, 50+ CPE credit hours!...
BLI Express For Leaders - Renewal: Empowers leaders with business success skills -online video self-study, 50+ CPE credit hours!...
Blog 101: First Steps to Stardom: Want to boost your brand, become a thought leader, start a conversation, and drive the world to your website all at the same time? Here's how: Start a blog. Here's a quick-start guide t...
Brand You: How to Be a Leader and Boost Your Career - With a Little Help From Social Media: You don't need to write books or earn advanced degrees to be a thought leader. We're all experts at something, and thanks to social media, it's easier than ever to tell the world about...
Business Development: Distinctions Between Marketing and Sales: Is it marketing or is it sales? And does it make a difference? This short course explores those key questions - and their implications for growing your business....
Coaching Staff to Stay on the Right Track: Retaining and developing staff is critical to the long-term success of your firm. Learn how to be a better coach, mentor and lead your staff to desired professional growth....
Critical Performance Measures: Useful Tools for Gauging Success: Successful organizations know how to effectively channel energies, abilities and knowledge of their people toward achieving short- and long-term strategic goals. Financial professionals...
Effective and Efficient Auditing in Compliance with Auditing Standards, Including Yellow Book: In recent years, the auditing standards have been strengthened in an attempt to improve the quality and effectiveness of financial statement audits. CPA firms need to act now to train a...
Employee Motivation and Engagement: Driving Results Without Driving Your Team Crazy: If you've ever wondered, "How can I more confidently, assertively, and successfully deal with underperforming staff?" then this webcast is a MUST for your professional development. This...
Ethics, Principles and Applications: While ethics training is required by many states, the true value of our CPA license is in understanding how critically important ethical behavior is to one another, our customers and to...
Ethics: Caesar's Wife: Tipping the Delicate Balance of Leadership and Ethics: In today's complicated world, CPAs carry an increasing burden of public trust. As in the past, they are expected to give sound, ethical advice on accounting matters. Yet, what used to b...
Ethics: It's Not Just What You Do, but How You Do It!: In today’s hyper-connected and increasingly transparent world, the reputation you worked so hard to build can be destroyed in an internet minute. Mere compliance with regulations is no...
Find a Need and Fill It: Your Key to Business Development: It's the oldest saw in your business toolbox -- find a need and fill it. Yet the fine art of uncovering needs is a powerful tool to help you take your business to the next level. This c...
From Technical Expert to Financial Leader: How to Make a Critical Leap in Your Career: When contemplating transitions in their careers, most individuals are uncertain about how to prepare for making these critical changes. This describes a roadmap of the skills, competenc...
Getting Things Done: Engaging People to Execute Effectively: The key to execution is knowing how to communicate expectations and how to develop people's ability to think and act appropriately and effectively....
Health Care Reform - Current Business Impact: This on-demand self-study will provide important information on the key ongoing and current Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) provisions applicable to businesses and th...
How the Best Financial Executive Create High Performance Organizations: The ability to maximize an organizations performance is increasingly difficult due to dramatic changes caused by economic pressures and competition for scarce resources....
Identifying, Developing, and Hanging on to Talent: How have successful finance and accounting organizations shed the image of policeman even in the wake of added controls to become partners and strategists to the business It is because...
Internal Controls Design, Evaluation and Communication for Not-for-Profit Entities: Significant changes in the auditing industry have highlighted the necessity for all entities, regardless of nature, size and complexity, to have a well-designed and effectively operatin...
Internal Controls Design, Evaluation and Communication for Smaller Entities: In recent years, the auditing standards have been strengthened in an attempt to improve the quality and effectiveness of financial statement audits. CPA firms need to act now to train a...
Interviewing to Avoid Costly Mistakes in Hiring: Hiring managers must effectively evaluate a wide range of competencies for a given job position, and be able to exit the interview with specific assessments for each candidate....
Leader vs. Manager vs. Facilitator: When, Why, How?: This program examines leadership, management and facilitation and when to use each. It is designed for professionals who lead others, or who might lead others. New generations are bring...
Leadership and Generations: What Are They Thinking?: Increasingly, generational differences are causing conflict and frustration in many organizations. Some of the differences, from how an employee views a dress code or work hours to how...
Leadership: Coaching to Develop and Empower - Accountability, Delegation and Dialogue: Leaders need to coach people. How to be clear about expectations How to empower How to delegate effectively....
Make it Happen! The Art of Discipline and Getting Things Done: Professionals sometimes struggle to achieve professional goals. Often, we are so busy juggling conflicting priorities and tasks that well-intentioned objectives stay indefinitely on our...
Making Rain: Strategies for Client Service, Selling and Negotiating: Learn the critical success factors and skills necessary to attract and retain quality clients for your firm....
Managing Strategic Business Partners: A growing number of organizations report that as much as 80% of their core business processes are now handled through various types of strategic or outsourced business partners. Managin...
P. Link 1: The Positivity Link to Flourishing: This is an introduction to the groundbreaking research, from positive psychology and neuroscience that is changing the way we view the world and think about our happiness....
P. Link 2: The Theory of Well-being (PERMA): The pursuit of happiness has long been a goal of the human race. However, it is as elusive today as it was when Aristotle pondered its meaning in 350 BC. This program explores the Theor...
P. Link 3: The Theory of Positivity "the pleasant life": Positive emotion is one of the five essential life domains of our well-being. Critical to our immune system, and even more importantly to how our brain functions, this webinar will prov...
P. Link 4: The Positivity Link to Strengths: This is an introduction to the groundbreaking research, from positive psychology and neuroscience that is changing the way we view the world and think about our happiness....
P. Link 5: The Positivity Link to Engagement Within "the engaged life": This is an introduction to the groundbreaking research, from positive psychology and neuroscience that is changing the way we view the world and think about our happiness....
P. Link 6: The Positivity Link to Relationships with Others "the connected life": Human beings are the most social creatures on the planet and the social ties we create to other people are the single strongest predictor of our well-being, especially in times of hards...
P. Link 7: The Positivity Link to Meaning & Purpose "the meaningful life": The fourth critical ingredient of our well-being is meaning and purpose. Driven from birth to pursue relationships and work that focus our efforts on what matters, human beings are gene...
P. Link 8: The Positivity Link to Achievement "The Accomplished Life": The fifth, and final, critical ingredient of our well-being is achievement; those things in life that we want to be, do, create, experience or have as a result of our efforts. Like the...
Public Speaking: How to Speak with Presence: Speaking with presence is a vital skill that everyone can learn. Whether you are presenting complex information to a client, speaking to colleagues, or briefing your superiors, your abi...
Strengthen Inquiry Skills Needed to Gather Evidence: Recent developments in various auditing, regulatory and compliance standards have increased the importance of effective inquiry as a means of gathering sufficient and appropriate eviden...
Succession Planning: Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today: Simply extrapolating the past is no longer adequate for firms when trying to anticipate the future. Strategic foresight does not attempt to forecast the future, but simply allows firms...
The Business Case for Social Media in an Era of Epic Change: We all know the social movement is about connecting, collaborating and building relationships. Sooner or later, though, the boss is going to utter the words every social media fan dread...
The Finance & Accounting Organization as Strategist and Partner to the Business: How have successful finance and accounting organizations shed the image of policeman even in the wake of added controls to become partners and strategists to the business It is because...
The Impact of IFRS and Other Global Standards on Private Entities: Learn the most important considerations and issues related to the impact of converging to global professional and regulatory standards for U.S. private entities that desire to adopt the...
Top 5 Ways to Get the Most Value for Your Audit Fees: This course will discuss the key factors that impact an audited entity’s ability to achieve the most value for the cost of the financial statement audit. Upon completion of this course...

Online Text-based Programs

AICPA CPExpress Select: Online interactive self-study training for MACPA members -over 300 available CPE credit hours!...
AICPA CPExpress Select - Ethics: Online self-study ethics training designed for MACPA members. Choose from 3 programs to select one that fits your needs and meets your four CPE ethics credit requirements for only $75!...
AICPA CPExpress Select Renewal: Online interactive self-study training for MACPA members -over 300 available CPE credit hours!...

Book / CD-ROM-based Programs

2011 Corporate Income Tax Returns Workshop: Give yourself an advantage with this unique perspective on the latest tax changes including the recent Tax Acts. Look at the most recent tax laws and other practical developments affect...
Accounting and Auditing with Excel: Practical Applications for Maximum Performance: Can you be doing more with Excel? Many Excel features are useful during financial audits and accounting related engagements and can help to improve both the efficiency and accuracy of y...
Accounting for Income Taxes: Applying Temporary and Uncertain Tax Positions: No other area in accounting is as far reaching, and requires knowledge of a vast number of topics in financial and tax accounting, as accounting for deferred taxes. With the FASB’s issu...
Advanced Auditing of HUD-Assisted Projects: Gain insights into compliance pitfalls for HUD-assisted housing owners and managers along with details on how you can take advantage of new possibilities. Learn to recognize and apply t...
Audits of 401 (k) Plans - Text: Over 400,000 benefit plans have 401(k) features, making it vital that CPAs know the audit requirements and the latest developments affecting them. Focus on every aspect of how to audit...
Audits of HUD-Assisted Projects: Gain in-depth, hands-on information regarding HUD organization, programs, policies and procedures. Review the professional standards affecting specific federal programs. ...
Construction Contractors Advanced Issues: Delve beyond the basics of many issues the construction industry brings to the accounting profession. Get hands-on advice on the accounting, audit and tax issues that make the construct...
Employee Benefit Plans Audit and Accounting Essentials: Master the fundamentals of auditing employee benefit plans in accordance with AICPA and EBSA standards and avoid common errors. Explore the accounting and auditing requirements unique...
Form 990: AICPA's Answer to Unlocking the Tax Complexities: Form 990, once a relatively simple form, has been completely rewritten and become more complex. Not only are CPAs required to perform numerical computations, but they must now answer pr...
Fraud and the CPA: All CPAs have a responsibility to be diligent in preventing and detecting financial statement fraud. Whether you are a preparer of financial statements, an auditor, or just want to help...
Governmental & Nonprofit Annual Update (2011-2012 Edition): Change is inevitable and at times overwhelming if you are unprepared. Ensure that you are current in governmental and not-for-profit accounting and auditing. This course is designed to...
Health Care Reform Act: Critical Tax and Insurance Ramifications: The nearly $1 trillion, 10 year cost of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Reconciliation Acts will change the way health insurance is delivered and how we will pay for it....
Internal Control Essentials for Financial Managers, Accountants and Auditors: After an overview of the latest COSO guidance on the components and principles of effective internal control, this course introduces participants to basic tools used to document an acco...
International vs US Accounting:What in the World is the Difference: With the fast pace of the convergence project, understanding the differences between IFRS and U.S. GAAP is becoming more important for businesses of all sizes. This course outlines the...
Introduction to XBRL: Revolutionizing Business Reporting!: Understand the global phenomenon of XBRL and how it is affecting the entire business reporting supply chain for more comprehensive and faster communication of financial information....
Not-For-Profit Accounting & Reporting: From Start to Finish: The accounting and reporting requirements for not-for-profits are uniquely designed to provide transparency about an organization’s financial position and how it uses its resources. Th...
Shaping Up Your Accounting Function:Trim the Fat and Go Lean: Make a successful transformation to a lean accounting function! Learn how accounting functions can be aligned with lean goals and lean performance measures and how your firm or client...
The Fast Close, Soft Close, Virtual Close: Now Days, Not Weeks: Redesign the closing process. Look at the opportunities that a soft or virtual close can bring to your organization. Develop the skills you will need to determine the resources used an...
Uncertainty in Income Taxes: A Must Know for Tax CPAs and Accountants/Auditors! (FIN48): FIN 48 adds major new tax documentation and disclosure requirements on a scale unseen since passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. Despite an outpouring of requests for an extension...
Upcoming Peer Review: Is Your Firm Ready?: Learn to create a firm environment that focuses on quality control. Prepare for a peer review and learn what can be done on a daily basis to create a strong quality-control environment...
XBRL-The New Era in Financial Reporting-Moving Beyond Theory: This is a “how to” approach to help identify key issues and provides practical ideas on how to use XBRL. A top priority of the SEC’s chairman is mandating XBRL for public company filin...