CPE Catalog & Events

The nonprofit sector in California is vast and diverse, embodying the spirit of community engagement. While many recognize nonprofits as vital forces for good, their significant economic and potential political influence often goes unnoticed. The year 2025 has brought unique challenges for the sector, characterized by various developments from the federal administration. This course provides a comprehensive overview of the critical role nonprofits play in shaping public life and the importance of their involvement in public policy discussions. We examine the emerging federal challenges to the sector, California's response, and key legislation that will affect nonprofits at both the state and federal levels.  This session was recorded on May 29, 2025, for CalCPA's Not-for-Profit Organizations Conference.

You'll learn to identify basic tax and compliance issues related to unrelated business income taxes of tax-exempt, not-for-profit entities.

In this innovative course, participants will learn to combine the power of artificial intelligence with the functionality of Microsoft Excel. You will learn how to leverage ChatGPT, OpenAI's powerful language model, to improve your Excel skills and decrease the time it takes to build spreadsheets. The course will include a quick introduction to ChatGPT but the majority of the time will be spent using ChatGPT to create an Excel spreadsheet.

In this innovative course, participants will learn to combine the power of artificial intelligence with the functionality of Microsoft Excel. You will learn how to leverage ChatGPT, OpenAI's powerful language model, to improve your Excel skills and decrease the time it takes to build spreadsheets. The course will include a quick introduction to ChatGPT but the majority of the time will be spent using ChatGPT to create an Excel spreadsheet.

An in-depth discussion of complex international tax matters, including cross-border formations and reorganizations, U.S. tax treaties, and more.

Updated with the most recent international tax guidance and developments, including regulations, notices, and OECD projects.

Updated with the most recent international tax guidance and developments, including regulations, notices, and OECD projects.

Providing an in-depth understanding of essential international tax topics, including effectively connected income, the foreign tax credit, global intangible low-taxed income, the base erosion and anti-abuse tax, and more.

An overview of the U.S. tax treaty definitions and their impact on permanent establishment, business profits, tax residency, hybrid entities and more.

Exploring the tax implications of cross-border transfers between related parties.

This course provides an overview of the procedures and considerations for beginning a valuation engagement for litigation purposes.

Valuation standards are outlined to help practitioners and firms looking to understand how to apply VS section 100 guidelines appropriately and compliantly.

Volume to Value: A New Era of Precision Hiring in Accounting examines how accounting firms are shifting from high-volume recruiting models to "precision hiring" as AI adoption accelerates and talent scarcity continues. Participants will explore why traditional hiring processes often overemphasize technical accounting knowledge while under-assessing the competencies that most impact performance-critical thinking, professional communication, and AI ethics awareness. The course explains how AI-enabled recruiting tools can support candidate screening, assessment, and retention forecasting, and why firms that do not modernize their hiring approach may struggle to compete for top talent. Participants will leave with practical approaches to competency-based assessment, ethical guardrails for AI use in hiring, and a high-level implementation roadmap with metrics to evaluate quality of hire, performance, and retention.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) introduces substantial updates to business tax planning, deductions, credits, and compliance. This course examines the sweeping provisions now codified into law that affect flow-through entities, corporate taxpaye

This course walks through the individual and estate tax changes created by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). From sunsetting the TCJA provisions to introducing new deduction limits, credits, and savings vehicles, these reforms are wide-reaching.

The program will highlight the expanded surtax on certain foreign payments, the interaction of OBBBA provisions with the Base-Erosion and Anti-Abuse Tax (BEAT), and the compliance impact on U.S. companies with foreign shareholders. Attendees will learn

We are bombarded with information continually. So how do we determine what is valid and what isn't? This course points out common pitfalls inherent in data interpretation and gives practical tips to overcome those pitfalls by using real life examples. The course incorporates information from key thought leaders including Adam Grant, Alex Edmans, and Hans Rosling.

Everyone knows that Excel is the most widely used spreadsheet application in the world today. However, because it is ever-changing, many users are unable to keep up with the latest features and capabilities of this ubiquitous application. In this course, we'll look at some of the most helpful new features and tools that have been added to both the Desktop version of Excel and the Web version. This course is for anyone who regularly works with Excel.