Move beyond manual entry and learn the professional techniques to ensure your books are always accurate and audit-ready.
There can be no doubt that accounting and tax software capabilities have improved drastically over time. Gone are the days of paper reconciliations and 10-key tapes attached to reports. However, as automation has increased, practitioners may wonder whether the software is performing all the critical checks that it should.
When software reconciles an account, can we rest assured that it is correct? Are there key screens that we should be looking at as a part of our month-end processes? How can we be sure that automated transactions are coming over correctly?
In this course, we will dig into what the software is doing and how we can be sure the software is correct. We will also discuss how to investigate variances and apply analytical techniques to month-end reporting.
Who Should Attend:
Tax practitioners, small business owners, and other accountants looking to serve their companies or clients in the areas of payroll services or operations.
CPA, CFP, CLU, CPCU, MST, MBA
David Peters is the Founder and Owner of Peters Professional Education in Richmond, VA. He is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an Investment Advisor Representative (IAR) with Peters Financial LLC. He brings over 20 years of experience in financial services, including three years in the hedge fund industry and six years in insurance. David was the first Chief Financial Officer of Compare.com, where he served for more than three years. He holds four master’s degrees, contributes frequently to professional publications, and is a nationally recognized CPE instructor and discussion leader for Surgent seminars and a former instructor for Don Farmer. David received the AICPA Outstanding Facilitator Award in 2021, 2023, and 2024 as well as Surgent's Outstanding Discussion Leader awards in 2019 and 2022. He also co-authored the Virginia CPA Ethics course in 2018, 2019, and 2020, which is a requirement for all CPAs licensed in Virginia. Through Peters Professional Education, David is the author and instructor for over 125 recorded on-demand CPE courses and leads private trainings, in-person tax seminars, and quarterly live tax update webinars. His areas of instruction include accounting, finance, insurance, financial planning, and ethics, and he regularly teaches professionals across the United States.
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