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Featured learning · Q2 2026
Explore ten timely courses.
Select a topic that supports your professional goals, strengthens your practice, or helps you prepare for what comes next.
Understanding IRS Form 2848
This course simplifies IRS Form 2848, explaining how taxpayers authorize CPAs, attorneys, or enrolled agents to represent them before the IRS. It covers key procedures, limits, and examples in clear, accessible language.
Meaningful Internal Audit Reports
Learn how to create Internal Audit Reports with clear, concise insights and actionable recommendations. This course covers communicating findings effectively, addressing audit issues, and delivering reports that highlight the most important information.
Whistleblowers in the Corporate World
Learn the roles, risks, and protections related to corporate whistleblowing. This course covers key laws including SOX, Dodd-Frank, and the False Claims Act, plus whistleblower challenges, reporting processes, and best practices for organizations.
Coaching for Managers
Enhance leadership and teamwork skills through practical coaching techniques such as active listening, feedback, and goal-focused dialogue. Learn how coaching differs from managing or mentoring to build engagement.
Ransomware Protection on a Small Budget
Learn practical, low-cost strategies to protect your data from ransomware. Explore NAS, RAID, JBOD, and cloud backups to build a secure file system, reduce attack risks, and improve recovery without paying ransom—even without an IT department.
Transform Performance
This course equips business leaders, managers, supervisors, and HR professionals with structured coaching frameworks, ethical guidelines, and certification pathways to enhance leadership, employee development, and organizational performance.
Spotting Trouble: How Auditors Address Illegal Acts
Learn how auditors address possible illegal acts during audits. This course covers recognizing violations, assessing their impact on financial statements, responding appropriately, documenting findings, and applying auditing standards such as PCAOB AS 2405.
Understanding Derivatives and Hedge Accounting
This course helps CPAs understand derivatives and hedge accounting, covering fundamentals, risk management strategies, fair value, cash flow and net investment hedges, plus key concepts such as designation, documentation, and effectiveness testing.
AI Series: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
This course introduces AI fundamentals, including machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. It explores AI’s evolution and practical uses of AI and automation in the accounting profession to improve efficiency and decision-making.
Types of Financial Statement Fraud
This course examines common financial statement fraud schemes, including inflated revenue, understated liabilities, and misreported disclosures. Learn how to identify manipulation tactics and promote accurate, transparent financial reporting.