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2021 Best Accounting CPE Platform Comparison
The convenience of online Continuing Professional Education (CPE) platforms has never been more important than during 2020 when COVID-19 forced most people to stay at home. The option to attend live, in-person CPE classes has virtually disappeared, making the...
Covid Specific CPE
COVID-19 has opened up many challenges for Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) working with accounting clients. One way CPAs can prepare for these challenges is to take continuing professional education (CPE) courses that cover some of the new risks and problems...
How to Engage Attendees in CPE
Most CPAs would agree that attending continuing professional education (CPE) courses in person is a great way to increase their learning, maintain their license and network with other professionals. However COVID-19 has made it impossible for professionals to...
Continuing Education: Non-Technical Fields of Study
Last month we focused on technical fields of study as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). These two organizations jointly issue the standards that define the...
Continuing Education: Technical Fields of Study
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) jointly issue the standards that define the framework of the Continuing Professional Education programs used by CPAs to maintain their...
How Technology is Challenging the Continuing Professional Education Program
It is unlikely to be a surprise to most that the ways and methods of providing continuing professional education courses to those in the accounting profession are facing challenges in adapting to the newest technologies. Currently continuing education courses...
The Addition of Adaptive Learning Self-Study Programs
In December 2019, the AICPA and the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) announced several changes to the Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs and the NASBA Fields of Study document. These changes...
Tracking CPE: Are Compliance Monitors that Important?
Tracking your CPE credits can be frustrating when you’re earning credits from different organizations, websites, and webinars. And when it comes to tracking CPE for your firm or organization, it’s an even bigger nightmare. Employees earning credits and forgetting to...
CPE in the Time of Corona
We’re in the middle of an unprecedented event: a global pandemic the likes of which the world hasn’t seen in more than a century. The world that we knew has shifted. Cities are in lockdown, companies have shut down, and an entire workforce is stranded at home,...
What is CPE Cheating and Should I Even Ask That Out Loud?
Okay, CPE cheating is a thing. I recently had a few CPA friends of mine tell me they only buy downloadable text-based CPE courses. They do this so they can go straight to the test, and if they miss any questions they can do a text search in the course pdf file, find...
