CPA CPD Hot Topics Courses
We offer 8 courses in this series. The CPD Courses on Hot Topics cover current Critical Issues affecting the profession; soft skills and managerial accounting for the CPA in industry.
CPA professionals earn 8 hours of CPD per day of training and receive a CPD attestation.
Course 2005: Critical Issues Facing Accounting Professionals in 2025
- 27 Challenges Accounting Professionals Face
- How to Develop Internal Employees to Take on Senior Leadership Roles
- Data Analytics
- A Closer Look at Rolling Forecasts
- How to Manage Your Company's Foreign Exchange Risk
- How to Embrace Change and Thrive in it
- Crisis Management
- How to Improve Working Relationships and Productivity in a Multi-Generational Business
Course 2035: Best Practices for Reducing Fraud with Strong Internal Controls
No one wants to think about fraud occurring in their business, but did you know that 74% of companies were targets of payment scams in 2024? Moreover, 65% of treasury and finance professionals believe that remote work is to blame for an uptick in payments fraud at their companies.
Doesn’t sound good, does it? The good news is, it doesn’t have to be that way. Find out from this course the proper controls that accounting staff can put in place today to protect your business.
- Understand Fraud & How To Prevent it
- Internal Control Best Practices
- Improving Internal Controls in Small Organizations
- Top 10 list to Improve Controls
- Social Engineering, Cheque fraud & Other scams
- Committee of Sponsoring Organizations' Internal Control Best Practices
- Financial Statement Common Fraud Schemes
- Particular Fraud Schemes to Landmark Cases
Course 2046: Accounting Decision-Making Tools
Whether you work in Operations, Accounting or Analysis, this course is a must know to improve decision-making. Topics covered include:
- Managing Your Business through a Crisis
- Top Accounting & Reporting During Times of Uncertainty
- The Future of Business Planning
- Rolling Forecasts: Best Practices and Implementation
- How To Improve Decision-Making in Today's World
- Measuring Value from Your Operating Assets
- Evaluating Profitability of Your Customers
- Profitable Growth Using the Pareto 80 / 20 Rule
- How To Reward Employees - Changing Paradigm
Course 2050: Internal Controls: Top 10 Best Practices for Minimizing Fraud Risk
- Best Practices to Improve Internal and External Frauds
- How to Improve Internal Controls at Both Small and Big Companies
- Preventive, Detective and Corrective Internal Controls
- Best Practices to Implement Internal Controls with Software
- Cash Schemes Methods of Concealing Cash
- Accounts Receivable Schemes and Prevention
- Inventory Schemes and Prevention
- Purchasing Schemes and Prevention
- Types of Control Activities
- Fraud Prevention
- Assessment Process for Segregation of Duties
- Integration with Various Business Cases (Small Business and Public Companies)
- Best Practices from Sarbanes Oxley and COSO for Big Companies to Improve Internal Controls
Course 3070: Top Concerns Facing Accounting Professionals
- Optimizing the Financial Close - What it Takes
- Carrying Out Transfer Pricing Planning
- How to Communicate Financial Information Clearly and Effectively to Non-Accountants
- Best Practices to Improve Budgeting
- 18 Tips to Better Writing and Presentation Skills
- How to Tackle Cyber Risk
- External & Internal Risks Worrying the CFO & Public Practitioner
- Maintaining a Positive Workplace Attitude
Course 3080: A New Dawn for Accounting Professionals
- How Blockchain is Changing Accounting
- The Role of Bitcoin in Finance
- Cyber Risk
- Protect your Company Against Hackers and Cyber Criminals
- Effective Profitability Analytics
- Value-based Pricing
- The Future of the CPA Profession
- How to be a Value-added CPA Advisor
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Course 3081: CPA Toolkit for Turbulent Times
- Gaining Efficiencies in the Accounting Month End Process
- Challenges in Using Fair Value Measurements
- What is Keeping Controllers Up at Night?
- Financial Leadership in Difficult Times
- Rethinking Liquidity: Managing Cash and Working Capital
- Surviving a Financial Crisis: Credit and Operating Finance Issues and Solutions
- Cost Reduction Strategies & The Lean Organization
- The 10 most Common Mistakes Management Make in an Uncertain Economy
Course 3090: Management Accounting Refresher
This course is ideal for CPAs looking to get a strong handle on key cost and management accounting subjects. Topics covered include:
- Cost Estimation & Cost Drivers
- Target Costing
- High-Low Method
- Cost Classification
- Activity-based Costing
- Activity-based Management
- Transfer Pricing
- Flexible Budget vs. Master Budget
- Variance Analysis
- Variable Costing
- Absorption Costing
- Relevant Costing
- Multi-Product Breakeven Analysis
CPA CPD Hot Topics Courses - Testimonials
Leah always does a great job. Leah is an excellent and very knowledgeable presenter. Lots of data and very technical, but Leah does a wonderful job distilling the info into easily digested terms. I've been to a number of sessions with her and she always does a great job. Thanks!
Mary G. CPA
She really presents this stuff appropriately. Very technical and Leah Donti did a great job with real examples and talking slow enough to digest.
Elena O. CPA.
Thank you for two excellent webinar sessions yesterday and today. They were so interactive with lots of examples!
Maryann P. CPA
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