Review what strategies and techniques are most appropriate for businesses in dealing with employee-related issues. Learn how to structure buy-sell agreements. Understand how to incorporate family members into a business, and avoid problems in dealing with related parties. Highlights
Income splitting and shifting when hiring family members
Maximizing depreciation deductions and applying the new capitalization and repair regulations
Fringe benefit plans: how they play a larger role in getting to a lower taxable income and taking full advantage
Medical benefits: long-term care, HSAs, cafeteria plans, COBRA compliance, and disability
Health care reform
Maximizing retirement benefits
Pension plans: Best options
401(k) plans
Deferred compensation
C corporations: Are they qualified personal service corporations?
Compensation planning
Basis planning: At-risk and passive considerations
Structuring the buy-sell agreement
Why businesses need life insurance?
Related-party transactions
Travel and entertainment
End-of-year W-2 adjustment worksheets
Methods of accounting: Accrual versus cash
Registration
PICPA Member: $275 Nonmember: $375
More Information
Course No. 738301Level: Intermediate
Prerequisites:
Experience with business clients
Speaker(s)
Edward Harter
Edward A. Harter, CPA
Edward A. Harter is a general practitioner in Canton, Ohio, who provides
accounting and tax services to his clients.
Harter has been a partner in a multi-office firm with ten partners, a
one-office firm with two partners, and a sole practitioner with only one support
person. He has instructed CPE programs for 39 years and has presented CPE in all
50 states with consistent “excellent” ratings from program participants. He is
continually commended for his ability to reduce complicated tax concepts to
understandable English with his “real world” examples. In addition, he has held
a number of leadership positions in The Ohio Society of CPAs.