Course Information

This course integrates federal taxation with overall financial planning. It will explore tax strategies relating to the central financial tactics of wealth building, capital preservation, and estate distribution. The result is a unified explanation of tax-economics that will permit the tax professional to locate, analyze, and solve financial concerns. Designed to improve the quality of services to clients and the profitability of engagements, this program projects the accountant into the world of financial planning. This course will give the participant practice in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and presenting final personal financial plans to clients. The emphasis is on practical simplicity in dealing with the self-employed and highly compensated individual.

Chapter 1: Financial Tax Planning 1. Identify short-term financial goals and investment purposes, recognize the importance of defining, and prioritizing realistic goals specifying how investing allocation changes with age. 2. Determine the tax consequences of title holding methods by: a. Specifying ways to hold title to assets starting with the simplest and most direct way to hold property; b. Cite the tax benefits and drawbacks of co-tenancies, corporations (both C & S), partnerships, qualified retirement plans, and trusts particularly as they relate to a client’s after-tax investment return; and c. Identifying custodianship under the uniform acts and determining how an estate can be tax beneficial to taxpayers. 3. Recognize the impact of retirement planning postponement identifying the importance of early planning using the author’s suggested step process, specify a balance sheet method to plan retirement, determine how to diversify portfolios by balancing liquid and nonliquid assets, and identify the purpo