1,700 CPAs and Tax Pros Participate in Free CPE Marathon

More than 1,700 CPAs and financial professionals from across the U.S. participated in Ensuring Success 2016, a free, annual, online, day-long marathon of CPE-eligible educational sessions presented by CPA Practice Advisor. The practice management resource provides news, information and product reviews for accounting professionals.

In its third year, Ensuring Success is broadcast live online from studios in Dallas, Texas. CPA Practice Advisor Editor-in-Chief Gail Perry, CPA, hosted the 10-hour long CPE session marathon, which featured sessions on change management, women in the profession, security issues, data management, innovative client services, and payroll and human resource issues.

As the sessions were being broadcast, participants actively discussed the event on Twitter using the hashtags #DecemberCPE and #EnsuringSuccess.

Perry was joined during each session by a varying panel of accounting, business and legal experts. The panel members included Dave Cieslak, CPA, Jim Bourke, CPA, Geni Whitehouse, CPA, Tom Hood, CPA, Jim Boomer, CPA, Shayna Chapman, CPA, Greg LaFollette, CPA, Marty McCutchen, CPA, Amy Vetter, CPA, Jason Deshayes, CPA, Peter Margaritis, Shane Radigan, Elizabeth Adams, CPA, Donna Galatas, John Hagan, Dave Olsen, Kalil Merhib, Bob Harris, Jim McGinnis, Jorge Olavarrieta, Chris James, Karen Collom, and Joe Carufe.

The event was sponsored by the Business Learning Institute, Xero, Avalara, Sage, Intuit, RIVIO, (Capital Confirmation and CPA.COM), SurePayroll and StacyK Academy.