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SUMMARY:R&D Credits Hidden in Everyday Business
DESCRIPTION:Many companies leave money on the table because they assume R&D credits only apply to laboratories\, patents\, breakthrough inventions\, or formal research departments. \n\n\n\nIn reality\, qualifying work may be happening inside everyday business activity. It can show up when a company improves a product\, redesigns a process\, builds custom software\, tests materials\, develops prototypes\, resolves design failures\, or works through technical uncertainty. \n\n\n\nThe challenge is that many companies never get far enough to evaluate the credit. They hear “R&D” and immediately decide\, “That’s not us.” \n\n\n\nIn this session\, Bennett Thrasher Credits & Incentives Partner Nina Desai will explain how companies can identify potential R&D credit activity\, understand the four-part test\, recognize which costs may qualify\, and avoid common documentation gaps. \n\n\n\nWhat You’ll Learn: \n\n\n\n\nWhy companies often self-disqualify too early\n\n\n\nWhat R&D credit activity may look like in ordinary business operations\n\n\n\nHow the four-part test applies in plain English\n\n\n\nWhich activities generally do and do not qualify\n\n\n\nWhat expenses may be included\, including wages\, supplies\, contractors\, and certain cloud costs\n\n\n\nHow documentation can help support a defensible claim\n\n\n\nHow the payroll tax offset may benefit certain early-stage or growth companies\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend:\n\n\n\nAnyone who wants to better understand whether everyday problem-solving may support an R&D creditmation fits into your compliance process \n\n\n\nCFOs\, controllers\, and finance leaders \n\n\n\nTax directors and accounting professionals \n\n\n\nBusiness owners and executives at growing companies \n\n\n\nCompanies improving products\, processes\, software\, formulas\, or technical methods \n\n\n\nManufacturing\, software\, construction\, engineering\, food and beverage\, medical device\, distribution\, and technology companies \n\n\n\nEarly-stage or growth companies investing in technical development
URL:https://www.freelivecpe.com/event/rd-credits-hidden-in-everyday-business/
LOCATION:Free Live CPE Webinars\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Specialized Knowledge
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SUMMARY:The Risk of 'Good Enough': How Manual Debt Management Invites Audit Red Flags
DESCRIPTION:Learning Objectives\n\n\n\n\nIdentify the hidden risks of Excel-based debt management: Understand how manual amortization tables\, key-person dependency\, and fragile spreadsheets create vulnerabilities\, errors\, and compliance blind spots compared to autonomous software.\n\n\n\nAutomate continuous covenant compliance: Discover how replacing sporadic manual tracking with 24/7 continuous testing and custom alerts can help you confidently monitor critical metrics like leverage ratios and avoid career-defining covenant breaches.\n\n\n\nStreamline operational maintenance for complex debt: Explore how a dedicated platform automatically handles the heavy lifting of variable interest rate changes\, journal entries\, and the GAAP Effective Interest Method without the need for extensive tie-back files.
URL:https://www.freelivecpe.com/event/the-risk-of-good-enough-how-manual-debt-management-invites-audit-red-flags/
LOCATION:Free Live CPE Webinars\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Finance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260722T140000
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SUMMARY:Agentic AI & autonomous workflows: New governance risks and guardrails
DESCRIPTION:Description: \n\n\n\nAgentic AI presents unique governance challenges. This webinar provides a practical model for where\, how\, and when to place guardrails across the agent lifecycle. We will dissect how autonomous workflows create new exposures — cascading errors across multi-step chains\, ambiguous accountability when an agent acts\, excessive or unintended permissions\, prompt and tool-poisoning attacks\, and the difficulty of reconstructing what an agent did and why. \n\n\n\nDrawing on emerging practice\, we will map these risks to concrete control placements: pre-action authorization gates\, scoped permissions and least-privilege tool access\, human-in-the-loop checkpoints calibrated to action severity\, behavioral monitoring and circuit breakers\, and audit-grade logging of agent reasoning and decisions. \n\n\n\nRather than treating agentic AI as either a novelty to ban or a black box to accept\, this session equips risk\, compliance\, and internal audit professionals with a structured way to evaluate autonomous workflows\, identify the control points that matter most\, and design proportionate guardrails that preserve the value of automation without surrendering oversight. Attendees will leave with a practical framework they can apply to agentic deployments already emerging in their organizations. \n\n\n\nLearning objectives:  \n\n\n\n\n Identify the principal governance risks unique to autonomous workflows\, including cascading and compounding errors\, permission and privilege escalation\, accountability gaps\, adversarial manipulation of tools and instructions\, and reduced explainability.\n\n\n\nMap control points across the agent lifecycle\, determining where guardrails belong — at planning\, authorization\, tool invocation\, action execution\, and post-action review — and why placement matters.\n\n\n\nDiscuss technical and procedural guardrails\, including least-privilege tool scoping\, pre-action approval gates\, behavioral monitoring\, kill-switches and circuit breakers\, and audit-grade logging of agent reasoning and decisions.\n\n\n\nEvaluate accountability and ownership structures\, applying the three-lines model to clarify who is responsible when an autonomous agent causes harm or error.\n\n\n\nAssess an agentic deployment in their own organization using a structured evaluation approach to surface gaps and prioritize guardrail investments.\n\n\n\n\nCPE credit(s): 1 CPE upon live viewing and participation. CPEs not offered on-demand. \n\n\n\nField of study: Information Technology \n\n\n\nInstructional delivery method: Group Internet Based \n\n\n\nLevel: Basic \n\n\n\nPrerequisite: None \n\n\n\nAdvanced preparation: None  \n\n\n\n*Click here for more CPE information.
URL:https://www.freelivecpe.com/event/agentic-ai-autonomous-workflows-new-governance-risks-and-guardrails/
LOCATION:Free Live CPE Webinars\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Technology
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SUMMARY:How to use AI to build a firm full of your ideal clients that pay you what you're worth
DESCRIPTION:Description\n\n\n\nAccounting\, tax\, and bookkeeping professionals face growing pressure to compete on price rather than value. This session equips participants with practical strategies and AI-powered tools to reposition their firms around expertise and results. Participants will explore how to define and attract ideal clients\, quantify the value of their services\, implement stronger qualification and engagement processes\, and price with confidence. Through applied frameworks and AI prompts\, attendees will leave with actionable steps to reduce scope creep\, protect their time\, and build a more profitable and sustainable practice. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives:Upon completing this session\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nIdentify the measurable value of their accounting\, tax\, or bookkeeping services to support premium and value-based pricing decisions.\n\n\n\nDefine characteristics of an ideal client profile and establish qualification criteria to evaluate prospective client fit and firm profitability.\n\n\n\nApply AI prompts and tools to refine client-facing messaging and clarify ideal client targeting strategies.\n\n\n\nImplement engagement processes\, scope management practices\, and professional boundaries to reduce scope creep and protect billable time.\n\n\n\nApply a repeatable client attraction framework to increase recurring revenue and improve long-term firm sustainability.\n\n\n\n\nPrerequisites: None \n\n\n\nCourse Level: Basic \n\n\n\nCourse Length: 60 minutes \n\n\n\nAdvance Preparation: None \n\n\n\nField of Study: Business Management and Organization \n\n\n\nDelivery Method: Group – Live Internet \n\n\n\nCPE: 1 \n\n\n\nIntuit (Sponsor ID# 103311) 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 submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.Note: This event is free and there is no fee to attend. For concerns about this event or program cancellation policies\, please reach out to Protax_training@intuit.com.@intuit.com.
URL:https://www.freelivecpe.com/event/how-to-use-ai-to-build-a-firm-full-of-your-ideal-clients-that-pay-you-what-youre-worth/
LOCATION:Free Live CPE Webinars\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Business Management and Organization
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SUMMARY:The Outlook on Unclaimed Property: Conversations on Compliance\, Developments\, and Emerging Trends
DESCRIPTION:Webcast overview\n\n\n\nThis TaxWatch webcast will explore key unclaimed property compliance developments\, enforcement trends\, and emerging risks affecting organizations across industries. Join KPMG professionals as they discuss evolving state regulations\, digital assets\, audit activity\, and practical strategies for managing compliance obligations and mitigating exposure. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives:Following this webcast\, participants will be able to identify key unclaimed property developments\, assess emerging compliance risks\, and evaluate the impact of evolving regulations\, audits\, digital assets\, and voluntary disclosure opportunities. \n\n\n\nProgram Specifications \n\n\n\nEstimated CPE credit: This program is worth approximately 1 CPE credits.NASBA Delivery Method: A virtual classroom session such as a live webcast with a real-time instructor is “Group Internet-Based.”Target Audience: Tax and finance executives with unclaimed property compliance\, audit\, and risk management responsibilities.Field(s) of Study: Taxes – 81The final CPE and Field of Study will be confirmed after delivery of the program.Prerequisites: There are no prerequisite requirements for this course.Advance Preparation: There are no advanced preparation requirements for this course.Program Knowledge Level : \n\n\n\nIntermediate: Learning activity level that builds on a basic program\, most appropriate for CPAs with detailed knowledge in an area. Such persons are often at a mid-level within the organization\, with operational and/or supervisory responsibilities. \n\n\n\nPolicies & Questions \n\n\n\nRefund/cancellation policy: This program is offered free of charge. As such refunds are not applicable.Questions: If you have questions about this event\, please e-mail KPMG Events & Meetings and reference event code XDNCYPJZ2TR.CPE Certificate: CPE processing may take two to four weeks after the webcast. Once available\, certificates will be emailed and accessible in the KPMG Learning Portal/Cornerstone using this guidance. For CPE certificate questions\, please contact Client CPE Mailbox. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nKPMG 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 addresses to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors\, 150 Fourth Avenue North\, Suite 700\, Nashville\, TN 37219-2417. www.nasba.org
URL:https://www.freelivecpe.com/event/the-outlook-on-unclaimed-property-conversations-on-compliance-developments-and-emerging-trends/
LOCATION:Free Live CPE Webinars\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Accounting,Taxes
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SUMMARY:Sales tax nexus & product taxability: Risks & compliance
DESCRIPTION:From AI to impact: What it takes to run an intelligent enterprise. We’ll explore what it takes to embed AI into how decisions get made\, build accountability that holds as autonomy scales\, and turn isolated wins into enterprise-wide performance. At the center of every conversation is the shift toward the intelligent enterprise\, where the advantage doesn’t come from what you’ve invested\, but from how well your entire enterprise was designed to perform because of it. \n\n\n\nThe customer has changed. Has your business? The way customers discover\, evaluate\, and buy has fundamentally changed — and the commercial organization wasn’t built for it. This session explores what it takes to rebuild every customer-facing function as one intelligent system\, where proprietary data becomes a compounding advantage\, agents and humans are choreographed rather than automated\, and every interaction drives measurable business outcomes. \n\n\n\nLearning objectives:By the end of this webcast\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nIdentify how leading companies use their own data and AI to drive customer growth.\n\n\n\nDescribe how AI and people can work together across sales\, marketing\, and service to deliver measurable results.\n\n\n\nExplain how to use AI in everyday business decisions and keep teams accountable as it scales.\n\n\n\n\nPresenters:Dr. Pippa Malmgren\, Global economist; former US presidential advisor; CEO and founder\, Geopolitica InstituteJohannes Evenblij\, Global Consumer & Commercial Transformation Leader\, PepsiCoHeather Adkins\, Chief Marketing Officer\, TrimbleIan Kahn\, Principal\, Customer and Commercial Excellence Leader\, PwC USJon Glick\, Principal\, Advisory Marketing Leader\, PwC US \n\n\n\nWho should attend: C-suite leaders and their direct reports across commercial\, finance\, risk\, operations\, and strategy functions. Each session is designed to be valuable individually\, with the full series offering a complete view of enterprise design in the AI era. \n\n\n\nCPE Credit: This webcast is eligible for 1.0 CPE credit in the field of Business Management & Organization.nd heads of policy\, strategy\, and risk.
URL:https://www.freelivecpe.com/event/sales-tax-nexus-product-taxability-risks-compliance-2/
LOCATION:Free Live CPE Webinars\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
CATEGORIES:Business Management and Organization,Specialized Knowledge
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