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New CPA Essentials: Ethics, Connections & Communications
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New CPA Essentials: Ethics, Connections & Communications

Gain valuable communication skills while understanding the basic tenets of ethical and professional conduct, and the principles of ethics.

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2

Format

Multiple

CPE Credits

14

Product Number

NCPAE21

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Easily prepare yourself for the future – today

This unique bundle not only gets you across the finish line in the race to be a CPA, it’s uniquely positioned to give you a good foundation for better communication within your firm and with clients.

What’s included in this bundle
Online
NASBA Field of Study: Communications and Marketing
$205
$84 - $123
40% bundle discount applied
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Learning Outcomes
  • This course will prepare you to:
  • Identify network types
  • Identify four steps to building your network
  • Recognize key influencers for building your network
  • Recognize best practices when attending conferences or business networking events
  • Describe the three types of misconceptions of communication
  • Identify the different types of personality styles in the workplace
  • Recognize how to communicate with the different types of personality styles effectively.
  • Recognize why listening is harder than we think.
  • Identify eight listening “don’ts”
  • List three steps for quality listening
  • Illustrate techniques in increasing your confidence before your presentation
  • Identify ways to connect with your audience and capture their imagination
  • Recognize the importance of restating questions during a presentation or Q&A
  • Describe steps to becoming a more polished presenter
  • Identify techniques for presenting to various audience demographics
  • Identify the importance of your presentation opening and closing remarks
  • Identify 5 tips that are key for presenting financial information
  • Recognize the value of using charts in financial presentations
  • Describe ways to give context to help explain your data
  • Describe how to write more effectively with increased clarity and a stronger impact
  • Recognize the benefits of being a good writer
  • Identify 9 rules of effective writing
Key Topics
  • Social networks
  • Professional Networks
  • Clique versus entrepreneurial networks
  • Types of Influential People
  • Building Your Network
  • Following-up with new clients
  • Characteristics, Strengths, and Weaknesses of Personality Styles
  • Connecting with Personality Styles
  • Audience Demographics
  • The importance of scheduling time and environment
  • Types of listening
  • Levels of listening
  • Listening to respond
  • Introverts and Extroverts
  • Listening bias
  • Body language
  • Using visualization
  • Practice is essential
  • Positive energy
  • Slide count calculation
  • A speech versus an experience
  • Fear of questions
  • Know your audience
  • Communication styles
  • Turn off the adrenaline
  • The power of a pause
  • Presentation Tips
  • The importance of audience demographics
  • Winning the trust of your audience
  • Providing context with your numbers
  • Tables and charts
  • Formatting words for readability
  • Making your point
  • Active versus passive writing
  • Choosing words for understandability
  • Using emoticons and punctuation
  • Bad writing examples
Product Details

MBAexpress provides essential business savvy over the course of 6 1-hour online learning modules.

Building a Stronger Professional Network – V 2.0: Having a strong network will assist you in launching a new idea or plan, developing new business and clients, reducing costs in recruiting, and leveraging your career.

Communicating for Connections with Coworkers, Clients, and Customers – V 2.0: This course will discuss different personality styles and demonstrate the different ways to communicate information to them.

Listening for Leaders - V 2.0: Listening is harder than you think. It’s not about you, it’s about the audience – about the person you’re talking to. Listening is about setting aside our issues, our concerns, our biases, and our judgment so that we can truly listen to what someone else is saying.

Powerful Presentation Skills – V 2.0: Discover how to stand in front of an audience, project confidence, and knowledge, all the while making a connection and capturing your audience’s imagination to be powerful and persuasive.

Presenting Financial Information – V 2.0: In this course, you’ll learn general tips, common mistakes and ways to improve your financial presentations.

The Art of Effective Writing – V 2.0: Your company is only as good as your writing. Despite all your efforts, are you still trying to explain the difference between good and bad writing?

This course has been developed by the Business Learning Institute. The Business Learning Institute, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site: www.nasba.org.

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Ethical accounting is a MUST

Understanding and applying ethical principles and independence requirements is every accounting and finance professional’s responsibility. You'll learn the fundamentals of ethical accounting to help you adhere to professional ethics standards. Essential ethics topics include:

  • Viewing and analyzing ethical matters
  • Adhering to the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct
  • Applying the code’s conceptual framework
  • Evaluating conflicts of interest and maintaining confidentiality

Maintaining your independence

Independence rules play a key role in professional ethics as well. Vital topics you'll explore are:

  • The AICPA independence rules
  • Independence rules regarding personal financial interests, loans, employment, and business relationships that relate to you and your immediate family
  • Independence rules from regulators, including the SEC and PCAOB

Other ethics considerations

More topics in professional ethics you'll cover include:

  • Rules that apply to government auditors and audits of employee benefit plans, federally funded charitable organizations, financial institutions, and insurance
  • Rule interpretations related to gifts and entertainment
  • Ethics rules related to professional tax services

Real-world scenarios

Case studies and realistic examples will enhance your comprehension and enable you to practice what you’ve learned.

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT YOUR CPE CREDIT:

Many states do not accept the AICPA course to meet the ethics requirement for earning or maintaining a CPA license. Please contact your state board to determine which ethics course is required to earn your license. If you are taking the course for licensure you must pass with a score of 90 percent or higher to qualify towards earning your CPA license. If you are taking the course to maintain your existing license you must pass with a score of 70 percent or higher.

Professional Ethics: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Comprehensive Course (For Licensure) is offered online. To purchase the version of this course for licensure, select the item on this page.

Who Will Benefit

  • Accounting and finance professionals earning a CPA license
  • CPAs maintaining their CPA license

Key Topics

  • AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and its Conceptual Framework
  • Ethics and independence rules from the AICPA and other regulators, including the U.S. government
  • Activities that discredit the profession
  • Ethics interpretations issued by PEEC
  • NOCLAR
  • AICPA Statements on Standards for Tax Services (SSTSs)
  • U.S. Treasury Department’s Circular No. 230
  • Internal Revenue Service (IRS) penalty provisions

Learning Outcomes

  • Recall ethical rule setters and methodologies for analyzing ethical matters.
  • Recognize the interpretations of the "Integrity and Objectivity" rule.
  • Identify the provisions of professional conduct.
  • Recall how independence rules apply to personal matters.
  • Recognize rules for a firm's independence.
  • Recognize SEC and PCAOB independence rules.
  • Identify ethical regulatory requirements of other regulators.
  • Identify ethics rules for the tax practice.
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