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INCPAS On-Demand: 2025 CPA Trends Forum Session - Navigating the Shifting Landscape
Stay ahead of key global trends impacting tax and trade. This session covers the latest on tariffs and their effect on supply chains, evolving transfer pricing rules, and strategic compliance insights. Featured speaker Jan Smallenbroek, National Service Line Leader for International Tax and Transfer Pricing at CBIZ, will discuss the challenges and potential breakthroughs involved in moving toward a more unified tax framework.
Learning Objectives
- Identify current tariff trends and explain their implications for supply chain design, pricing strategy, and risk mitigation.
- Recognize key changes in transfer pricing expectations and describe how to align intercompany policies with customs valuation and operational realities.
- Apply a structured response framework (assess → mitigate/optimize → implement/monitor) to integrate tax, trade, and incentives into a unified compliance strategy.
- Evaluate the potential of a more unified tax framework and articulate practical steps firms can take now to prepare for greater global harmonization.
Highlights
- Tariffs & Supply Chains: What’s Changing and What It Means - A concise briefing on current tariff developments and their downstream impact on pricing, sourcing, and resilience across global supply chains.
- Transfer Pricing in Motion: Aligning Tax, Customs & Operations - Practical guidance for updating intercompany policies to reflect evolving rules—connecting compliance, customs valuation, and financial planning to reduce risk.
- Toward a Unified Framework ("One Beautiful Bill") - Strategic insights from Jan Smallenbroek, National Service Line Leader for International Tax & Transfer Pricing at CBIZ, on the opportunities and challenges of moving toward more harmonized global tax approaches.
Event Level: Intermediate
Field of Study: Management
Advanced Prep
None
Who Should Attend
CPAs and accounting professionals at all career stages, Firm leaders, managers, and HR professionals responsible for staff well-being, Anyone interested in understanding and addressing burnout in high-pressure, knowledge-based roles
Required Knowledge
None
