Created and managed by Tom Kothman, founding publisher of Accounting Today, The CPA Trendlines Academy delivers actionable CPE that is practitioner-built education taught by the people actually driving the profession's transformation, not just covering it. Our Mission is is to conceive, design and deliver online educational and training programs that serve the accounting profession’s future needs and assist in solving current complex problems.  Through close collaboration with cpatrendlines.com, we monitor the pulse of the industry and in response create the highest quality professional tools created and delivered by industry influentials and experts.

Where much of the industry's CPE is built around volume — free courses from an open marketplace of sponsors, or a webinar slate bolted onto a news operation — the Academy takes the opposite approach: a small, curated roster of named practitioners teaching what they're actually building in their own firms and practices.

Every program is developed by qualified CPAs, tax attorneys, or enrolled agents before it airs — so the CPE credit is real, but the value goes further than the credit hour. Flagship Series aren't generic topic overviews; they're built around the specific structural problems firms hit once they've already launched an advisory practice, taught by the people who study those failure points for a living.

The result is CPE that feels less like a compliance obligation or quota to be met but more like a briefing from inside the profession's next chapter — forward-tense education for a forward-tense profession.