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CONFERENCE SEMINARS

1040 Individual Tax
This comprehensive course covers the key tax issues for completing complicated Individual returns. In addition, all topics cover new legislation and extenders, revenue rulings and procedures, as well as case law to help the busy practitioner keep current on changes for 2017. The 2017 year is going to see many changes and steps taken in 2017 will have a major impact on your client’s returns. Practical tips and insights are shared by practicing practitioners to help you get up-to-date for the 2017 tax season.

2017 Tax Updates and Hot Tax Planning Tips
This 4-hour course will provide coverage of recent tax law changes that affect individuals, corporations and partnerships including legislation, court cases and IRS rulings. This course also provides comprehensive coverage of the latest changes in Health Care Reform .The class provides tax professionals with planning tips and what they need to know for 2017 and beyond.

Technology 3.1: The Next Step in Making your Practice Technologically Savvy
Where does a practitioner go to understand the complexities of dealing with technology in their practice? We will study the real world issues of dealing with the adaption of technology to solve practice issues.
• Is it time to take my practice into the cloud or is it just another thunderstorm?
• The mobility of data access and the handheld computer: smart phones, tablets, and notebooks
• Advances in the world of manipulating documents and work papers in the modern accounting and tax practice
• Work smarter, not harder! Great utility software that can make life easier in the office
• Security, remote access, and backing up data: How to properly set up and maintain your systems
• Floware: Managing daily office activities from your computer with little or no paper
• Operating systems Windows 7 and 8, Mac, Linux: How to keep up with all the changes

California Tax Update
2017 will be another year of California tax changes and turmoil as the state wrestles with balancing the budget.
• We will cover the latest on the State’s position on deducting half of self-employment tax
• Certain items on the property tax bill may be disallowed as a deduction
• Reporting use tax after Amazon caves on withholding
• The latest with regard to federal conformity
• Possible tax increases on high income earners

Estates and Trusts
This course will help you get started incorporating estate work into your practice or serve as a refresher for those already doing estate work. The aging baby boomers are in an inheriting mode and you will learn how to advise them on such matters as portability and funding of the sub-trusts. There is something for everyone from the novice to the seasoned practitioner. The course also explores the decisions required in handling clients’ estates and trusts from beginning to close, including tax elections available, distributing assets to beneficiaries, and filing all applicable tax forms. We analyze Form 1041 (including all topics listed under the 1041 course description), U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts, Form 709, U.S. Gift (and GST) Tax Return, and Form 706, Estate Tax Return. In addition, we will cover all the new tax law changes and important rulings and cases.

Accounting (Two-Day)
Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services No. 19, effective in 2011, replaced and/or revised almost every one of its predecessors, resulting in the most significant change in financial statement presentation since 1978. This year's Gear Up Accounting Seminar is special: this year the focus is on you, your practice's quality control system, and what all this means to your client. In addition to an in-depth discussion of each SSARS No. 19 and SSARS No. 20, other major topics include:
• Professional Ethics: the basic requirements and the most recent interpretations.
• OCBOA versus GAAP: how both banks and clients can receive cost effective yet useful statements.
• Practice Management: faced with the new requirements, should you move to value billing, rather than hourly billing, and, if so, how to make the transition?
• Non-profits and Homeowners Associations: what's the appropriate presentation now?
• Peer Review: using a case study approach, learn what peer reviewers look for and how you can be prepared and pass!
• GAAP Update: when does Fair Value Accounting replace historical cost; when do variable interest entities require financial statement
consolidation; what are the new leasing standards, the changes revenue recognition concepts, the tests for impairment, and how does each impact disclosure on OCBOA statements?
Add to that issues related to: interim financial statements and reports; the consideration of fraud in financial statement presentation; analytical procedures; cash flow statements; required financial statement disclosures; specialty issues relevant to the main street accountant and you have a solid two-day accounting seminar that will satisfy the need of both sole practitioner and the mid-sized firm.

Business Entities (Two-Day)
The 2017 Business Entities seminar will focus on providing practical advice for tax practitioners serving small business clients. We will examine the impact of the Budget Control Act of 2011, discuss the sweeping proposed and temporary regulations affecting all taxpayers that acquire, produce or improve property, update practitioners on informational reporting and Form 1099-K, examine future impacts of the Health Care reform changes, and post-election tax reform. The course will highlight new court rulings, regulations, and other updates relevant to small business tax advisors.

 
OPTIONAL SESSIONS AVAILABLE
(not included with the Royal Flush package):

IRS Audits, Appeals, & Collections: Successful Strategies
Optional Session, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2017, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM | 8 CPE | $239
Understanding how to navigate the IRS can save the practitioner time, meaning a more effective and profitable representation of your client before the IRS. Notices are at an all-time high as the IRS tries to encourage compliance from taxpayers. Knowing how to effectively communicate with the IRS, presenting your response in a manner that the IRS expects, and understanding IRS timelines have increased in importance. What to do when you find your client faced with the inability to pay the amount the IRS is demanding. Walk through the pathway of the notice response. What to do about that levy and resolution with the IRS, delayed payment plans, installments, or the Offer in Compromise. The IRS has become faceless and nameless. This course will work through proven strategies to help your client find confidence and comfort in the process. Presented by speakers with decades of practical experience in dealing with the IRS in audits and collections. Invaluable to both the new or seasoned tax professional.

Ethics for the Tax Professional
Optional Session, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, 4:45 PM - 6:30 PM | 2 CPE | $89
The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has been very busy, ensuring that Circular 230 Practitioners (that's us) follow rules that prescribe and proscribe our behavior. We will discuss what we can–and must–do to assist our clients while maintaining ethical integrity and complying with Circular 230 rules. Meets CTEC criterion for the 2 hour ethics requirement.

Interested in Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities?
Contact Terry Storholm at 651-687-7327 or terry.storholm@thomsonreuters.com

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MORE INFO AND REGISTER
View the registration page for:
• Complete CPE information including fields of study, level, CPE credits
• Event schedule with session choices
 
Register online or call 800.231.1860 to place your order by phone.

Schedule may be adjusted closer to conference date.