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Key Highlights

Practical techniques for a successful Cannabis Business

Continuing Education approved courses for Multiple Qualifications

On-Demand Courses

Individual Certificates for each Module

Courses authored by Subject Matter Experts

Shareable Certificate on LinkedIn

What You’ll learn

For anyone considering a career in cannabis, specialist knowledge is the key to unlocking the industry’s most exciting opportunities. The cannabis landscape is complex, ever-changing, and unique. By studying the Business of Cannabis, you’ll develop critical business skills like risk analysis, scaling operations, and regulatory compliance. View cannabis — and your future in the industry — with a well-informed and entrepreneurial mindset. This certificate will provide you with a clear understanding of the cannabis industry, how it got there, and where it’s going.

Get Deeper Understanding of:
  • Challenges imposed by the Schedule I status of cannabis in accounting, taxation, and banking

  • Problems in the CA cannabis industry, and how the reform bill seeks to address them

  • Key objectives in cannabis reform that the CAOA propose

  • Different operating models of cannabis businesses

Recommended For:
  • The certification course is designed for the requirement of professionals such as CPA, CMA, CFE, and others for the cannabis industry professionals to play their role such that they can provide strong business results for cannabis clients.

  • The certificate course is also useful for middle and top-level professionals who aim to achieve the highest professional competence in the industry. It is helpful for students and professionals aspiring to join Cannabis businesses.

  • The certification is also helpful to business owners, managers, consultants, and others to have an understanding of the Cannabis industry

Why take a Certified Cannabis Industry Professional with myCPE?

Resources included
  • Handout PDFs for every Module
  • Glossary/Key Terms for every modul
  • Q&A directly with instructors.
Career Opportunities
  • Tax Specialist
  • Accounts Manager
  • Senior Accounts Specialist
  • Tax Manager (Cannabis)
  • Business Consultant (Cannabis)
  • Analyst
Value Addition to your skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Critical thinking skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Project Management skills
  • Organizational skills

Module

Module Name

Duration

What to Do When You Get a Cannabis Client

1 Hour

  • To analyze the requirements when meeting a client from the cannabis industry. 
  • To discuss that the cannabis client's needs differ from the CBD client's needs and familiarize with the pitfalls that can occur when working in the cannabis industry.
  • To explore the implications on their professional career of working in the cannabis industry.
Instructor
Paula Collins
Paula Collins

Owner , Law Office of Paula Collins, PLLC

QBO Webinar on Cannabis Accounting - Techniques for Clean and Accurate Books (For Canadian Audience)

1 Hour

  • To analyze the different operating models of cannabis businesses.
  • To set up the QBO chart of accounts (CoA), cannabis-specific account considerations, sales tax center for GST, PST, HST, and excise duty, and QBO file settings to work best with cannabis businesses.
  • To implement efficient bookkeeping workflows, powerful reports, and board-room-ready packages.
Instructor
Robert Mings
Robert Mings

Founder , Robert Mings

Cannabis Tax Reform Bill in California

1 Hour

  • To identify which aspects of the SB/AB 1281 cannabis tax reform bill apply to cultivators and which apply to retailers.
  • To analyze the problems in the CA cannabis industry, and how the reform bill seeks to address them.
  • To explore the timeline proposed in the CA cannabis tax reforms.
Instructor
Paula Collins
Paula Collins

Owner , Law Office of Paula Collins, PLLC

How is Your Social Equity Client Different from Your Regular Licensed Cannabis Client?

1 Hour

  • To define a social equity applicant in the cannabis industry and consider the financial, cultural, and racial perspectives of the social equity applicant.
  • To discuss the range of responsibilities that they have as professionals to social equity applicants.
  • To explain that Social Equity programs are not available in all states.
Instructor
Paula Collins
Paula Collins

Owner , Law Office of Paula Collins, PLLC

Why your Accountant and Lawyer need to work together on your Cannabis Business License Application

1 Hour

  • To recognize the areas of law and accounting that are required for a cannabis license application.
  • To familiarize themselves with the terms, culture, and expectations of a cannabis business application.
  • To discuss the challenges imposed by the Schedule I status of cannabis, as it impacts accounting, taxation, and banking.
Instructor
Paula Collins
Paula Collins

Owner , Law Office of Paula Collins, PLLC

Estate Planning for Cannabis Business Owners

1 Hour

  • To discuss the need for estate planning for Cannabis Business Owners through the perspectives of insurance, savings, traditional retirement planning tools, and trusts (revocable and irrevocable).
  • To explain some of the socio/cultural and banking considerations that make estate planning for cannabis business owners, especially tricky. 
  • To review that estate planning is not so much about planning for death, but also about planning for incapacity.
Instructor
Paula Collins
Paula Collins

Owner , Law Office of Paula Collins, PLLC

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Certificate awarded upon the successful completion of the myCPE Advanced Certification Program is proof that user has successfully undergone the training and passed the quiz. This certificate marks completion of the said courses and learning activities and completion of the review quiz to earn continuing educational credits for specific qualification mentioned. This advance certificate program is not approved by any educational institution, training institute or regulatory body.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Certified Cannabis Industry Professional certification provides a bird’s eye overview of the crucial aspects for professionals, businesses, and consultants. It provides a special coverage of topics that delivers you an overall picture to gauge the opportunities the markets see in the industry. The course covers the approach of the accounting, tax, and financial professionals of dealing with the cannabis client. It includes the accounting in the QuickBooks Online including the GST, PST, HST, and excise duty aspects. Estate planning for Cannabis business owners creates a unique challenge and that is also covered in this course. The legal aspects from the Cannabis Tax Reform bill, Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. How partnering with other professionals can help navigate the Cannabis industry is also covered with examples of lawyers and accountants covering a heavily legalized cannabis industry. The course also covers generating revenues from the growing cannabis industry. Thus, the Certified Cannabis Industry Professionals provides a strong background for the interested professionals, consultants, and business owners.

The Certified Cannabis Industry Professionals course is a very helpful course that provides strong coverage for professionals like CPAs to explore business opportunities. It provides aspects for industry and legal background that avails an overall approach for the professionals and businesses to gauge the opportunities. Covering legal, accounting, financial planning, and other aspects for professionals and business owners, the certification course provides you the best chance to get an overview of the Cannabis industry.

Certificate course is created by a qualified and experienced instructor(s). myCPE Certificate Courses includes Self-study Courses. Most of the courses are in the form of On-demand Videos. The Self-study Video courses in Certificate courses may be Live recorded presentations converted into Self Study (On-Demand Videos).

You can take your time and attend the course at your own pace. You can take exam unlimited time. So, don’t worry, if you are not able to pass an exam. You will be getting a chance to attend the exam again.

After completion of each course of this Certification Programs, you will be able to download a certificate with the course title and number of hours. Certificates, as well as your study records, are stored for life and you can access them anytime. Certificates are valid proof for your continuing education credits and you can also add it as an additional designation.

Once you register you will have complete access to all the courses of this Certification Programs. The self-study format allows you to access the material online 24x7 and study at your own pace.

As per NASBA guidelines, you have one year from date of purchase of your certificate to complete each program. After completion of each course, you can attend final exam any time and get CPE Credit instantly. You can retake the exam multiple times without any additional charges.

Course have minimum passing score of 70% in the final exam and you can take multiple attempts of the said exam.

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