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K2 Delivers Technology-Focused Learning Through Resort Conference Offerings With Western CPE

K2 Enterprises partners with Western CPE to support our efforts to provide the highest-quality CPE available to accounting and financial professionals in the United States and Canada. As a leader in technology-focused seminars and conferences, K2 Enterprises continuously strives to provide the highest quality, technology-focused learning options to our customers.

Likewise, Western CPE is a leader in continuing professional education for accounting and financial professionals, particularly in the areas of tax, accounting, auditing, and management. Through this strategic alliance, both parties expect to serve accounting and financial professionals better than ever before.

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Western CPE Conferences

For 2024, K2 Enterprises is once again partnering with Western CPE to deliver content at Western CPE Resort Conferences.  Depending upon the resort conference you choose to attend, you will be able to select from up to three K2 sessions created and presented by the K2 team. Complete descriptions for each of these sessions follow and you can see the list of dates and locations below also.

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Benefits of Participating in Western CPE Conferences

  • See and hear the highest-quality instructors
  • Ask questions and receive real-time answers
  • Select from courses scheduled on multiple days and times
  • Interact with other participants
  • Learn about a variety of topics—with no test required
  • Receive your certificate of completion by email within 1 business day
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K2-Produced Sessions at 2024 Western CPE Conferences

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
  • Identify the importance of Power Query in everyday situations
  • Utilize Flash Fill to manipulate data without resorting to formulas
  • List examples of when you should use Excel’s multi-condition functions
  • Define “array” and identify situations when Dynamic Arrays can improve productivity
  • Specify at least two ways you can use Data Models and their impact on reporting processes

MAJOR TOPICS

  • New features available in Excel that accounting and financial professionals should use
  • How to work with larger volumes of data in Excel
  • Improving efficiency through Excel’s collaboration tools
  • How to link various sources of external data into Excel for reporting and analysis
  • Create user-defined functions in Excel

COURSE INFORMATION

CPE Credit: Recommended for 6 hours Computer Software and Applications

Instructional delivery method:  Group-live demonstration and discussion. This course is “laptop-friendly” and participants will have access to demonstration files.  This course focuses on features found in Excel 2016 and newer for Windows.

Prerequisites: None

Program level: Intermediate

Advance preparation: None

Who should attend: CPAs and other accounting, auditing, and business professionals who desire to use Excel more effectively 

With strong IT controls in place, your business can reduce the risk of fraud substantially. Further, you can use IT-based controls to help overcome other control issues that your organization might face. Participate in this session to learn how you can reduce the risk of fraud in your organization – the survival of the business might depend on it!

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this course, you should be able to: 

  • Recognize control failures and weaknesses that can lead to fraud
  • Define information technology general controls and information technology application controls and distinguish between the two
  • Identify examples of critical internal controls, including information technology controls
  • List recommendations for improving internal controls in an organization 

MAJOR TOPICS

  • Detailed examination of many of the widely reported frauds of the past decade
  • Examples of control failures and weaknesses that lead to fraud
  • Identify critical information technology general controls and application controls that should be in place to deter and prevent fraud

COURSE INFORMATION

CPE Credit: Recommended for 6 hours Auditing

Instructional delivery method:  Group-live demo and discussion.

Prerequisites: Fundamental understanding of internal controls

Program level: Intermediate

Advance preparation: None

Who should attend: CPAs and other accounting, auditing, and business professionals who are seeking to reduce fraud risk

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completing this course, you should be able to: 

  • Identify significant technology issues that affect accounting and financial professionals
  • List at least three security practices that should be in place in every organization
  • Evaluate software subscription models to determine if they are ideal for your team
  • Differentiate between various communication and collaboration platforms, such as Teams and Zoom
  • Estimate the impact of emerging technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, and data analytics on businesses
  • Recognize technologies that will be key in a post-pandemic environment

MAJOR TOPICS

  • Developments in hardware and software
  • Significant developments in emerging technologies and why many of these technologies are essential now
  • Critical cybersecurity issues and potential solutions
  • Determining if subscription-based software models are right for your team
  • The impact of 5G technologies on virtually all aspects of communications

Course Information

CPE Credit: Recommended for 6 hours Information Technology

Instructional delivery method:  Group-live demo and discussion.

Prerequisites: None

Program level: Intermediate

Advance preparation: None

Who should attend: CPAs and other accounting, auditing, and business professionals who desire to use technology more effectively

Technology stacks available to financial managers and senior leaders enable a new era of productivity, reporting insights, and financial management not available previously. With the right tools and workflows in place, you and your team can realize the benefits of data analytics and integration, business intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, and communication and collaboration tools. Further, you can reap these rewards while simultaneously reducing cybersecurity threats.

We invite you to join us for this unique session that will surely open your eyes to better ways of managing the accounting and finance operations in any size organization. You will undoubtedly leave the session both enlightened and emboldened with the possibilities that await.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Differentiate between data analytics and business intelligence and list examples of each
  • Identify at least three opportunities for automating transaction flows, including approvals, in any organization
  • List examples of the benefits of data integration and specific tools you and your team can use to facilitate data integration efforts
  • Cite examples of technology to facilitate intra-team communication and collaboration efforts and the related benefits
  • List at least three security concerns facing businesses and provide examples of solutions to address these risks

MAJOR TOPICS

  • Integrating Data Analytics For Better Decisions
  • Improving Decisions With Business Intelligence
  • Automating Key Business Processes, Including Robotic Process Automation
  • Integrating Data Across The Organization
  • Communicating And Collaborating Tools
  • Security, Security, Security!

COURSE INFORMATION

CPE Credit: Recommended for 3 hours Information Technology

Instructional delivery method:  Group-live demo and discussion.

Prerequisites: Fundamental understanding of basic technology concepts

Program level: Intermediate

Advance preparation: None

Who should attend: Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, and other financial managers seeking to improve the performance of their organization’s financial and accounting team by deploying appropriate technologies.

 

Specifically, in this course, you will learn the best practices for creating financial and operational reports. You will also identify how you can use data models, Power Query, Power Pivot, and PivotTables to create and publish effective financial and operational reports from Excel.

Finally, you will also learn how you can leverage your knowledge of Excel features to create compelling reports using Microsoft’s free Power BI Desktop application. In sum, if you create reports, you can’t afford to miss this session.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • List best practices for Excel-based reporting;
  • Define and create Data Models in Excel;
  • Manage Data Models effectively with Power Pivot by adding features such as KPIs;
  • Utilize tools such as Power Query to link accounting transactions into Excel and apply critical transformations to your data to make it more useful;
  • Summarize the data in your Data Models using both PivotTables and formula-based techniques; and

MAJOR TOPICS

  • Best practices for Excel-based reporting
  • Create more effective reports using Excel
  • Utilize “Next Generation” Excel features to improve reporting processes
  • Building reports and dashboards using Microsoft’s Power BI platform

COURSE INFORMATION

CPE Credit: Recommended for 3 hours Accounting

Instructional delivery method:  Group-live demo and discussion.

Prerequisites: Fundamental understanding of computer operations, including spreadsheets

Program level: Intermediate

Advance preparation: None

Who should attend: Business professionals seeking to improve reporting processes and shorten reporting cycle times

2024 Western CPE
Conference Locations

During 2024, K2 team members will present technology-focused educational sessions at Western CPE Conferences. You can view the complete list of conferences, dates, and locations below. We look forward to serving you at one of these events!

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Western CPE Webcasts

Western CPE offers some of the highest-quality webcasts available. Included in the Western CPE curriculum are a number of accounting, auditing, and tax subjects, along with technology-focused topics presented by K2 Enterprises.