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Succession Planning for Business (and Real Estate, Farm and Ranch) Update - Saving the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg


Total Credits: 4 including 4 Taxes - Technical

Average Rating:
   75
Categories:
ACPEN Industry Institute |  ACPEN Tax Institute |  IRS Approved |  Tax
Speaker:
Bradley Burnett, J.D., LL.M.
Course Levels:
Intermediate
Duration:
4 Hours
License:

Dates


Description

This course analyzes why family business succession plans (or the lack thereof) most often fail, identifies the precipitating downfalls and explores remedies to prevent them. A model(s) is presented for effective succession from one generation to the next. Particular emphasis is provided on how recent developments and estate and gift tax uncertainty on the immediate horizon may tip the balance.

 

**Please Note:  If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to leighanne.conroy@acpen.com.

 

Basic Course Information

Learning Objectives
  • To learn the challenges and opportunities facing entrepreneurial business desiring to pass on within the family to a future generation(s) and approaches and tax breaks making it possible

Major Subjects
  • Basic questions to be addressed for effective succession planning 
  • Developing a plan (step-by-step format)
  • Recent developments worthy of attention and action                             
  • When to begin planning, how often to revisit an existing plan                                                                 
  • Transfer and income tax considerations
  • Protection maneuvers against creditors, predators and in-laws                        
  • Capital structure devices: family partnerships, family LLCs, S corps  
  • Direct lifetime vs. testamentary gifts, transfers and intra-family sales              
  • Liquidity considerations      
  • Symptoms of a plan in trouble, possible solutions                           
  • How CPAs may enter the succession planning fray to build their own businesses

Course Materials

Speaker

Bradley Burnett, J.D., LL.M. Related Seminars and Products


Bradley Burnett practices tax law in Colorado. After undergraduate (Business Administration/Accounting) school and law (J.D.) school, he earned a Master of Laws in Taxation (LL.M.) from the University of Denver School of Law Graduate Tax Program. After stints at national and local accounting firms and a medium sized Denver law firm, he established his own law firm in 1990, He has delivered more than 3,300 presentations on tax law to CPAs, attorneys, EAs and others throughout all fifty U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and seven countries. Bradley served four years as adjunct professor at the University of Denver School of Law Graduate Tax Program, where he pioneered an employment tax course and occasionally pinch-hit in the IRS practice and procedure field. He authors and teaches tax materials for Commerce Clearing House (CCH), has received the Illinois Society of CPAs Instructor Excellence Award and five times has been the most requested, top-rated presenter at annual state CPA tax institutes. His seminar style is briskly paced delivery of practical insights with humor. 


Additional Info

Basic Course Information

Prerequisites The desire to learn
Advanced Preparation None
Designed For All CPAs
Original Recording Date 09/18/2018
Yellow Book No
Course Developer Bradley Burnett Tax Seminars, Ltd.
Date Added to Catalog 09/10/2018

Additional Information

Complaint Resolution Policy Please contact Anne Taylor for any complaints. anne.taylor@acpen.com, (972-377-8199).
Official Registry Statement

Business Professionals' Network, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org


Instructional Delivery Method Group Internet Based
Course Registration Requirements

Online Registration


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Overall:      4.4

Total Reviews: 75

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Teresa J

"Informative and surprisingly entertaining (especially with all the stories and his candid sense of humor)"

Paul L

"CONTENT WAS TIMELY AND VERY INFORMITIVE."

Carolyn Sue W - Fort Worth, Texas

"Excellent presenter."

Houchins K

"Good slides!"

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Gerald B

"Very Good"