Hot Topics - Q1 2026
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CPE Credits: 2
Topic: Taxes
This course simplifies IRS Form 2848, explaining how taxpayers authorize CPAs, attorneys, or enrolled agents to represent them before the IRS. It covers key procedures, limits, and examples in clear, accessible language for students and CPA candidates.
CPE Credits: 4
Topic: Accounting
This course reviews the SEC’s 2024 final rules on climate-related disclosures, explaining new reporting requirements, investor impacts, and implementation timelines for public companies, balancing transparency and compliance costs.
CPE Credits: 2
Topic: Business Management
Enhance leadership and teamwork skills through practical coaching techniques like active listening, feedback, and goal-focused dialogue. Learn how coaching differs from managing or mentoring to build engagement.
CPE Credits: 2
Topic: Personal Development
This course equips business leaders, managers, supervisors, and HR professionals and business leaders with structured coaching frameworks, ethical guidelines, and certification pathways to enhance leadership, employee development, and organizational performance.
CPE Credits: 4
Topic: Regulatory Ethics
This course explains how to apply the AICPA Conceptual Framework, manage conflicts of interest, protect confidential information, and follow best practices to help CPAs maintain integrity and avoid acts discreditable to the profession.
CPE Credits: 2
Topic: Auditing
Learn how auditors address possible illegal acts during audits. This course covers recognizing violations, assessing their impact on financial statements, responding appropriately, documenting findings, and applying auditing standards such as PCAOB AS 2405.
CPE Credits: 2
Topic: Accounting
This course helps CPAs understand derivatives and hedge accounting, covering fundamentals, risk management strategies, fair value, cash flow, and net investment hedges, plus key concepts like designation, documentation, and effectiveness testing.
CPE Credits: 1
Topic: Information Technology
This course introduces AI fundamentals, including machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. It explores AI’s evolution and practical uses of AI and automation in the accounting profession to improve efficiency and decision-making.
CPE Credits: 3.6
Topic: Information Technology
Learn practical, low-cost strategies to protect your data from ransomware. Explore NAS, RAID, JBOD, and cloud backups to build a secure file system, reduce attack risks, and improve recovery without paying ransom - even without an IT department
CPE Credits: 4
Topic: Auditing
This course examines common financial statement fraud schemes, including inflated revenue, understated liabilities, and misreported disclosures. Learn how to identify manipulation tactics and promote accurate, transparent financial reporting for stakeholders.
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