At CPE Inc., we offer a wide range of CPE courses for accounting professionals to earn their credits, fulfilling state licensure requirements.
We also offer a wide range of live webinars, self-study courses, and conferences, for financial professionals that cover a comprehensive assortment of topics and disciplines, including but not limited to:
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Accounting & Auditing Updates
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Accounting for Debt Restructuring
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Accounting for Exit Activities
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Blockchain Technology
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Broker-Dealer Accounting
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Accounting Issues for Not-for-Profit Organizations
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Best Practices for Disclosure Committees
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ESG Regulatory Reporting
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Fair Value Accounting
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FASB Hot Topics
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Financial Accounting & Instruments
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GAAP Refreshers
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Financial Reporting Issues
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Risk Management
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SEC Accounting
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Stock-Based Compensation Accounting Issues
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And many others
Unsurprisingly, with such a wide range of topics covered, there is a great deal you can learn from any of these conferences for finance professionals.
Benefits of Attending Conferences for Finance Professionals
There are innumerable tangible benefits of taking these courses or attending one of these conferences for finance professionals, besides the obvious benefit of fulfilling CPE requirements.
Many of these can be broken out according to what your personal goals are. Like so many things in life, what you get out of it is tied to what you put into it.
For instance, if you complete our SEC Virtual Conference, you’ll get expert updates and the latest guidance on current and former SEC regulations. The conference will also cover topics such as ESG reporting, non-GAAP measures, SEC enforcement issues, as well as the rise of AI in accounting.
Overall, this course for finance professionals is designed to prepare you to make fair-value determinations, interpret valuation reports, and understand the techniques applied by financial accountants to this discipline.
If it sounds like these are minutiae, consider this: accountants skilled in performing valuations and fair value determinations are more valuable to their organizations than those that are not.
Moreover, the skills associated with valuation and reporting are transferable and highly utilitarian, equipping participants to apply their knowledge and expand their careers.
But this only explores the specific benefits involved in one single conference for finance professionals. All of the conferences offered by CPE Online are as information-packed as this one; you can get the same benefits from attending other conferences for finance professionals.
Learn New Skills, Positioning for Career Advancement
Regardless of the conferences that you find interesting, all of them are highly educational and will equip you with new skills that you can apply on the job and elsewhere in your career.
Many of them will furnish you with new information, perspectives, and insights that you will take with you from one job to the next, and many are curated to help you cultivate your talent, positioning you for career advancement.
Legal Awareness
The financial industry is heavily regulated and the legal landscape has the potential to change every single year.
Some of our conferences for finance professionals are specifically devoted to helping financial accountants navigate the complex, changing legal landscape associated with finance, valuation, mergers, acquisitions, reporting, and more.
Being not only well educated, but up-to-date, on the legislative atmosphere in your industry is a necessity for all financial professionals.
Ethics Refreshers
As important as legal and regulatory compliance is, ethical considerations are also of substantial importance to financial accountants and other financial professionals.
Ethical considerations go beyond the legal implications of any decision and should be weighed seriously before proceeding with any initiative or process.
Some of our courses are dedicated to ethics in financial accounting and will help keep you current on current concerns in the industry.
Some Courses Require No Preparation
Another great reason to take some of our conferences for finance professionals is that for many of them, no preparation is required.
All you have to do is sign up and attend (or study at your own pace). Many of them only require a basic, baseline understanding of financial accounting and reporting.
Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Earn CPE Credits for Attending
CPAs need to earn a certain number of CPE credits per year, as determined by their state board of accountancy.
Our conferences for financial professionals furnish our customers with a twofold benefit of ongoing education and earning CPE credits that are applicable towards their yearly allotment.
Some Live-Webinars Are Also Available As In-Person Seminars
Are you the type that gets more from in-person meetings? Many of our webinars for financial professionals are also available as in-person seminars.
If you prefer the structure of an in-person course to the flexibility and freedom of self-study, attend one of our seminars, instead. Many are available in select locations, and we also offer one and two-day virtual and in person conferences on select topics. These provide for a much deeper dive into important topics in finance and accounting.
To see which courses are available as in-person seminars, check out our conferences for financial professionals via the previous link, and click on a course. At the right side of the page you can see if it’s available as a live course.
Consider Attending an in-Person Conference
While we offer a wide range of live webinars and self-study courses for financial professionals, if you can find a good opportunity to attend an in-person conference, we think you should take it - at least once.
We’ve written about this before. There is a wide range of benefits to in-person learning, including but not limited to networking opportunities, the ability to meet and speak with leading, industry experts firsthand, and the fact that they are usually much more technical, in-depth, and informative than your average self-study refresher.
There are too many good reasons to attend an in-person conference to be listed in this article. We published a whole blog on the topic that you can check out via the previous link.
Questions? Contact Us
Do you want to know more about any of our conferences before you sign up? Feel free to get in touch with us at 1-800-544-1114 and we’ll be happy to help you out.