Surgent's Guide to Partner Capital Account Reporting
Overview
Tax practitioners are responsible for presenting partner capital accounts on the tax basis. But what does this mean and how have rules changed in recent years regarding partner capital accounts? This course covers exactly that. For tax practitioners preparing partnership 1065 forms, this course explains these complex rules in practical and understandable terms.
Delivery Method: Individual webcast
CPE Credit: Taxes
Program Level: Basic
This course is being offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible on your My CPE page. Webinar access information will be emailed directly to you by Surgent McCoy.
Highlights
- How a partner’s outside basis and capital account differ
- Reconciling Schedule M-2 Form 1065 with Partnership K-1 Schedule L
- IRS requirement to report partner tax basis on the transactional approach
- Implications if a capital account is negative
- Deficit restoration accounts and qualified income offsets
- Modified outside basis method and modified previously taxed capital method
- Determining a partner’s beginning capital account
- Beginning capital account for partnerships and partners consistently reporting on the tax basis
- The two types of adjustments under 754 and how 743 and 734 require different capital account presentations
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of tax rules relating to partnerships and partners
Designed For
Any tax practitioner who will be preparing partnership income tax returns
Objectives
- Understand how a partner determines and reports his or her tax basis capital account
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Michael Frost
Mike Frost, CPA, of Jacksonville, Alabama, provides tax consulting, continuing education, and motivational speaking services through his company, Mike Frost Enterprises. Mike is a former shareholder of MDA Professional Group, PC, where he managed the tax department of the Albertville office. Mike has 30 years of experience in public accounting, including but not limited to: Business and individual income tax preparation and planning; mergers and acquisitions; estate, gift, and trust tax preparation; small business consulting; Medicare planning and other elder care; audit representation; and religious groups and clergy.
Mike has conducted CPE engagements and seminars throughout the United States and has served as technical advisor for tax articles in The Sand Mountain Reporter, a local newspaper. Mike has been a featured presenter at the Alabama Society of CPAs Annual Meeting and the Federal Tax Clinic held annually at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Mike graduated with "high honors and distinction" from Jacksonville State University with a major in accounting and a minor in finance and a 4.0 GPA. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants. In addition, he is a graduate of the Tax Planning and Advising for Closely Held Businesses Certificate of Educational Achievement Program sponsored by the AICPA.
Non-Member Price $104.00
Member Price $99.00