Summer Variety Pack
June 21-22 Bismarck Ramkota
Price Per 4-hour Session: $135 Member $165 Nonmember
Add $25 After 6/7/10
Instructor:
William Eskin

June 21(8:00am - 11:30am)

Accounting and Auditing Update (CL4AUAA)
Keep abreast of the fast-paced changes in accounting and auditing. This course covers the most relevant pronouncements, exposure drafts and consensus reports recently issued in the accounting, auditing, compilation and review arenas. This training will help you identify and apply recently issued FASB statements, interpretations and technical bulletins. Learn how to assess the effect of current auditing standards and standards on accounting and review services from coverage of the latest issues at the AICPA, EITF and FASB.

Level: Update

Practical Tax Tips and Techniques for Closely-Held Businesses (CL4CHBT)
Walk away with practical tax strategies and challenges facing your closely held business clients. Employ business strategies to minimize the tax burden not only on the business but also on the owners. The tips and strategies are uniquely laid out to allow you to easily and quickly identify and hone in on tax savings strategies that fit your client’s situation.

Level: Intermediate


June 21(12:30pm - 4:00pm)

Revenue and Cash Receipts: Common Frauds and Internal Controls (CL4RCR)
Revenue and cash receipts are two critical areas that require strong controls to prevent intentional fraud or unintentional misstatements. A sound system of internal controls is needed to help prevent fraud occurrence. All too often, a “one-size-fits-all” system is put in place without considering the uniqueness of each entity. It is crucial that an internal control system is tailored so that the areas of greatest risk receive the most attention.

Level: Basic

2010 Health Care Reform Act: Critical Tax and Insurance Ramifications for You, Your Business and Your Clients. (CL4HCRA)
Dramatic and significant tax and health insurance changes are coming to America! The nearly $1 trillion, 10 year cost of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Reconciliation Acts of 2010 will change the way health insurance is delivered and how we will pay for it. Be informed of these changes and get tips for strategies to best deal with them.

Level: Basic


June 22(8:00am - 11:30am)

Compilation, Review, and Accounting Service Update (CL4COMP)
If you supervise compilation, review and accounting service engagements, this course will help you comply with the professional standards applicable to this year’s engagements. Review the current year’s AICPA’s Compilation and Review Alert and developments in independence, engagement and representation letters, field work, disclosure, reporting, documentation, changes in services or in accountants, and specialty engagements.

Level: Update

Tax Consequences and Reporting Issues of LLCs, LLPs, LPs and Other Partnerships (CL4TLLLO)
Is LLC and partnership taxation something new to you? Perhaps you have worked in this area for years but need a quick review of the fundamental concepts? This course addresses the tax consequences of the most common transactions engaged in by LLCs. Develop a level of comfort with the basic conceptual framework underlying partnership and LLC taxation, with an emphasis on explaining the tax consequences associated with issues that are most frequently confronted by tax practitioners.

Level: Basic


June 22(12:30pm - 4:00pm)

Preparing Tax Basis Financial Statements: A Private Company GAAP Alternative (CL4TBS)
The most frequent application of OCBOA is to prepare tax basis statements for tax entities. This course is a great way to brush up on the current standards and identify key issues in preparing and reporting on tax basis financial statements. The course covers the whole spectrum of tax basis financial statements: accounting, financial statements and disclosures. Special tax entities (S Corps and partnerships) are also examined. At last, an accounting course even a tax practitioner can love!

Level: Intermediate

S Corporations: Strategies from Formation to Termination (CL4SCORP)
Once again, this is the darling for many businesses; find out why during this information-packed session. Practical real-life examples give you ideas to apply immediately for your S Corporation clients. Review the advantages of the S Corporation tax rules. Minimize your client’s tax bill with the latest business and tax strategies that make S Corporations so popular. Decide if an S Corporation is your client’s entity of choice.

Level: Basic