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During this course, we will look at the questions you may want to ask a client. This will benefit your ability to better understand your clients' needs and the reason for their decisions. This allows you the ability to understand why they may or may not agree with some of your recommendations as well as possibly lead you to more options after understanding their needs. Knowing your clients' background will help you address their needs and concerns so when you put a financial plan together with them or advise them of potential asset protections this may both you and your client will have a clearer understanding.

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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During this course, we will look at the questions you may want to ask a client. This will benefit your ability to better understand your clients' needs and the reason for their decisions. This allows you the ability to understand why they may or may not agree with some of your recommendations as well as possibly lead you to more options after understanding their needs.

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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Here we will focus on traps and pitfalls, the problems that a client faces as they decide how to do a total plan as they incorporate estate and asset protection issues. We can spend many hours talking about the various different traps and pitfalls, but today we are going to focus on six (6) specific traps and pitfalls that we find to be very common in the initial phases of estate planning and show you how that is done with a client.

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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In this course, we will continue looking at disability planning, and some of the financial protections. This course will discuss briefly the medical wills and power of attorneys, medical surrogates, and financial planning for the uncertain future we all face.

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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This course provides a concise overview of how accountants can instantly and dramatically improve their Google search skills. Discover how to use the search service to spot opportunities and threats in your enterprise landscape earlier and faster, improve your research tactics as a trusted business advisor, slice through the endless online static and distractions, and interpret search results related to accounting in their proper context.

You'll walk away with scores of practical and proven online discovery lessons that can be immediately applied, deliver instant results and serve you forever in both your professional and personal life.

Topics include:

• Getting Google Ready
• Google Mobile Tools
• Google Personalization and Optimization
• Google Eyes and Ears: How Google Can Literally Read, Hear and See You
• Googling to Your Own Devices: How Results Vary by Computer
• Hiding in Plain Sight: What Youre Missing on the Google Results Page
• Google Sweet Talk
• Power Search Tools
• Google Verticals
• How to Be a Google Super Hero: Three Key Strategies

Learning Objectives:

After reading the course material, you will be able to:

• Transform Google into your backup brain, robot assistant, and ambient sidekick.
• Compose advanced search queries that generate more relevant results.
• Discover literally 10x more information thats hiding in plain sight on the Google search results page

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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This course provides a concise overview of the leading technologies and economic forces reshaping the accounting profession and how accountants are using new digital business models to thrive in the face of rapid and seismic change.

Discover how accountants once largely enterprise passengers and navigators are elevating their role using cyber tools and becoming pilots of global business. You'll walk away with a simple yet effective game plan to keep up with exploding digital transformation and translate technology ambitions into practical reality.

Topics include:

• Key technology trends in accounting
• The SMAC-down (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) of the profession
• A new generation of online accounting services
• Emerging cyber business models
• How to embrace the new normal and thrive in the face of technology change

Learning Objectives:

After reading the course material, you will be able to:

• Examine the impact of cyber applications and digital transformation on accountants.
• Explore the major shift in accounting away from historical reporting and compliance functions towards more forward-thinking and value-added services.
• Review a new generation of web-based accounting business models that are driving innovation and redefining the roles and revenue streams of practitioners.

Who Should Attend:

• Practitioners who want to step up their technology game and explore a swirl of innovation, strategy, and data opportunities in today's hyper-connected global marketplace.
• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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The course provides a concise overview of the Internet services offered by the Internal Revenue Service or IRS, the tax agency of the United States federal government. Discover scores of little-known but highly valuable IRS resources including electronic wizards, mobile apps, online payment systems, calculators and estimators, tax calendars, advocacy services, whistle-blower awards, social media, privacy guides, job opportunities, e-books, newsletters, and much more.

You'll walk away with a whole new appreciation for the IRS and a huge treasure trove of digital tools that can sharpen and accelerate your tax workflow.

Topics include:

• IRS.gov Website Update
• Key Search Filters
• Hidden IRS Cyber Resources
• Forms and Publications
• Electronic Filing
• Payment Systems
• Refund Tracking
• Online Tools
• Online Estimators and Calculators
• Assistance Services
• Affordable Care Act Tax Provisions
• Foreign Account Tax Compliant Act
• Identity Protection and Tax Fraud Alerts
• Professional Development and Accreditation
• Tax Statistics
• Social Media
• IRS Jobs and Careers
• IRS Strategic Plan
• Third-Party IRS Resources

Learning Objectives:

After reading the course material, you will be able to:

• Highlight scores of IRS online resources and apps that can help accountants in every stage of their tax workflow.
• Navigate the entire IRS website with more authority and confidence.
• Improve how you research constantly changing IRS tax rules that are getting ever more complicated and specialized.

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships:

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XBRL is revolutionizing business and financial reporting around the world. It is a reporting language that electronically communicates business and financial data globally. Besides providing major benefits in the preparation, analysis, and communication of business information, it also offers cost savings, greater efficiency, and improved accuracy and reliability to all those involved in supplying or using financial data claims XBRL International.

Topics include:

• This course will begin by recapping why and how XBRL came into existence and then defining XBRL.
• We will next discuss a few of the more common uses of XBRL reporting and some of its benefits.
• You will then be introduced to how XBRL reporting works through the use of taxonomies and specifications.
• As part of this process, you will be provided with a glossary of the more common XBRL related terminology.

Learning Objectives:

After reading the course material, you will be able to:

• Recognize the history of XBRL.
• Identify the basic XBRL technology.
• Recognize the definitions of general XBRL terminology.

Who Should Attend:

• All Certified Public Accountants (CPAs)

Qualifies and Approved with all State Boards of Accountancy and the following sponsorships: