The 10th annual Ensuring Success CPE conference is now underway at www.ensuringsuccess.com/watch-2023. Accounting and tax pros can view this live, streaming CPE conference from their own office on Dec. 6-7, 2023.
CPA Practice Advisor recently concluded the 10th annual Ensuring Success, the largest live-streamed CPE conference for accounting and tax professionals. More than 3,300 professionals registered for the event, which was held Dec. 6-7, 2023. Ensuring Success helped these professionals meet requirements complete continuing education across a variety of subject areas related to tax, accounting, practice management and ethics.
On the first day of the event, the first seven free CPE sessions included tax ethics, firm management, small firm strategies for tax credits, 2023-24 tax season issues, digital assets, firm branding/marketing, and AI for accountants. An additional 7 live CPE sessions were live-streamed on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. The list of sessions offered this year, and the speakers who participated in the event, is at https://www.ensuringsuccess.com/2023-sessions.
Attendees of the free, live streaming sessions were able to earn CPE credit. Recorded versions of all 14 CPE sessions will be available online soon, however, only attendees of the live event had the opportunity to receive the CPE.
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