The Williamson College of Business Administration is currently offering the following seminars to enhance your skills and continue your education. Click the drop-down menu to see a list of courses, and to register. Sharpen your accounting/ethics skills with any of these five seminars offered at Youngstown State University.

  • Accounting/Ethics

    Sharpen your accounting/ethics skills with any of these five seminars offered at Youngstown State University. Cost for seminars are listed below: 

    YSU Accounting & Auditing Update      YSU Annual Tax Update      YSU Ethics CPE Day      YSU Institute on Taxation

    YSU ETHICS CPE DAY - MAY SESSION

    Wednesday, May 10, 2023
    In-Person Only
    8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
    Williamson College of Business Administration/Youngstown State University
    221 North Hazel Street, Youngstown, OH

    Registration must be made at the OSCPA website here. Registration link becomes live when you tap the name of the seminar. Cost: $199.00

    OHIO PSR: PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT BEYOND REPROACH

    Set and manage ethical expectations in all aspects of your career while fulfilling the ABO’s professional standards requirement. Improve your understanding of how societal shifts in moral and ethical behavior are changing systems, processes, and impacting decision making in business today. Integrate ethical concepts and crosschecks into your training, auditing, tax, and financial reporting procedures.

    Trusted finance professionals must be able to identify, evaluate and address any action or situation that threatens the core values of the profession: integrity, objectivity, and due care. However, when it comes to making the best decision, there’s not always one perfect right answer for every situation. Professional ethics is about looking at several solutions and choosing the best path. In addition to reviewing professional standards applicable to CPAs, this ethics examines key concepts in living out ethics in the workplace for all professionals including:

    • Setting the ethical vision
    • The cost and nature of ethical failures
    • Elements of unethical culture
    • The cost of integrity
    • Building cultures of integrity
    • Principles of ethical leadership
    • Moral reasoning
    • Ethics and diversity
    • Due care
    • Professional behavior
    • CPA rule reminders

    The facilitator will provide contextual examples relevant to audience participants to illustrate ethical concepts and dilemmas. Participants in this course has consistently rated this ethics class as the best class they’ve attended.

    Parking is available in the M30 parking deck on Wick Avenue.
    CPE Certificate will be issued by the OSCPA after the reporting forms are submitted.

    YSU Institute on Taxation

    RESCHEDULED for 2024
    Williamson College of Business Administration/Youngstown State University
    221 North Hazel Street, Youngstown, OH

    The Tax Institute is designed for practicing accountants, enrolled agents, and tax preparers who want to stay current and knowledgeable on tax regulations. The seminar provides 8 hours of CPE credit approved by the Accountancy Board of Ohio and Pennsylvania. There are also many opportunities to network with other accounting/finance professionals.

    Registration must be made at the YSU Marketplace website. Registration link becomes live when you tap the name of the seminar.

    Parking is available in the M30 parking deck on Wick Avenue.
    CPE Certificate will be issued by the OSCPA after the reporting forms are submitted.

    Ysu Annual Tax Update

    Friday, November 17, 2023
    8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
    Williamson College of Business Administration/Youngstown State University
    221 North Hazel Street, Youngstown, OH

    The YSU Annual Tax Update is a fast-paced, one-day course covering the latest developments in taxation with an emphasis on real world applications. This seminar is designed for practicing accountants, enrolled agents, and tax preparers who want to stay current and knowledgeable on tax regulations and laws. Topics covered include tax law changes, evaluation of court decisions, IRS notices, revenue rulings, and revenue procedures and their impact on tax planning and compliance; and the review of IRS audit issues and pending legislation. The seminar provides 8 hours of CPE credit approved by the Accountancy Bard of Ohio and Pennsylvania. There are also many opportunities to network with other accounting/finance professionals.

    Registration must be made at the OSCPA website here. Registration link becomes live when you tap the name of the seminar.
    CPE Certificate will be issued by the OSCPA after the reporting forms are submitted.

    YSU Accounting & Auditing Update

    Wednesday, December 6, 2023 — offered online only
    8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
    Williamson College of Business Administration/Youngstown State University
    221 North Hazel Street, Youngstown, OH

    The YSU Accounting & Auditing Update is a comprehensive course that covers relevant pronouncements, exposure drafts, and other guidance recently issued in the accounting, auditing, review, and compilation arenas. Information on auditing, accounting concepts, trends, and rulings affecting public and private sectors will also be covered.

    Registration must be made at the OSCPA website here. Registration link becomes live when you tap the name of the seminar.
    CPE Certificate will be issued by the OSCPA after the reporting forms are submitted.