Dividing Grandpa’s Ranch Without Losing the Farm on Taxes: Tax Issues for Divisions of Properties

Course Description

The comprehensive presentation is tailored for those seeking to enhance their expertise in the type of real estate investments which are common throughout the western United States. Throughout the session, attendees will delve into essential strategies for structuring farm and ranch ownership entities, navigating tax implications, and optimizing financial outcomes for clients. With expert insights and real-world case studies, participants will leave equipped with actionable knowledge to effectively guide their clients towards more prosperous real estate ventures.

Strategic Conflict Management

Course Description

This course explores the impact of unresolved conflict in workplaces, emphasizing that employees often leave due to poor management rather than company issues. It introduces Conflict-IQ™ as a tool to understand and manage conflict positively within diverse organizational cultures. Drawing on extensive experience, it guides participants through foundational principles and practical applications of Conflict-IQ™, integrating emotional intelligence for effective conflict resolution. By course end, participants gain the skills to cultivate collaborative, inclusive environments, fostering growth and innovation within their organizations.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze the relationship between unresolved conflict and employee turnover, distinguishing between company-related issues and management-related factors.
• Evaluate the role of effective conflict management in fostering a positive workplace culture, emphasizing the impact on employee retention and organizational success.
• Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing Conflict-IQ™ as a strategic tool to understand, address, and resolve conflicts within diverse organizational settings.
• Apply foundational principles of Conflict-IQ™ to real-life workplace scenarios, integrating emotional intelligence techniques for effective conflict resolution.
• Synthesize strategies for cultivating collaborative and inclusive environments, utilizing Conflict-IQ™ principles to promote growth and innovation within teams and organizations.
• Develop a comprehensive plan for implementing Conflict-IQ™ practices within their respective workplaces, ensuring long-term sustainability and organizational development.

Divorce Decisions: Navigating Financial, Tax, and Valuation Issues

Course Description

Financial, retirement, tax, and valuation issues are critical concerns when contemplating a divorce. Understanding, assessing, and deciding how to proceed is essential before completing the marital separation agreement. Learn business valuation and the division of assets. Discuss property, retirement, and other possibilities that may enter the equation. Gain insights on the tax and financial ramifications of divorce. Navigate the assessment and division of financial assets before, during, and after the divorce.

Learning Objectives

• Minimizing the inevitable financial damage
• Financial issues in the heart of dividing assets in a post COVID world!
• Understanding which types of assets, plans or equity components the client should pursue during the division.
• Tax elements inherent in valuing and selling assets
• Valuing retirement plans
• Community property vs. common law issues
• The importance of being prepared by planning in advance
• The ongoing payment issues dealing with alimony and child support
• The rash of documents protecting a client going forward, including pre-nuptials, cohabitation agreements, post nuptials and many others
• The advanced income tax issues including like-kind exchanges, filing status issues, credits and asset sales
• The advanced retirement issues including dissecting qualified, personal retirement, and nonqualified plans, QDROs, past and defunct plans, and using retirement assets to equalize assets
• The high-level valuation issues including closely held business, stock redemptions, partnership redemptions and stock options
• Redesigning the personal financial plan after divorce

Practical and Productive Reporting Update

Course Description

Jeff Sailor will use his signature videos, designed to entertain and educate, to deliver a broad overview of the latest reporting standards. More time will be devoted to areas of broad interest, while a brief introduction will be given for narrow scope topics. Major topics will include the latest issues related to risk assessment, compilation and review, and implementation of the System of Quality Management.

Learning Objectives

• Implement a system of quality management
•  Apply the standards for risk assessment in an audit
• Apply the standards for other audit standards
• Apply the standards for performing a compilation
• Apply the standards for performing a review

Business Empowerment & Specialty Tax Incentives

Course Description

Discover how to take your clients and businesses to the next level with Brayn Consulting’s Specialty Tax Incentives Course. This course will equip you with the skills to create effective collaboration and lead teams of professionals, including lawyers, engineers, accountants, and tax support staff. You will learn how to review, document, and substantiate tax incentives specific to your clients, and gain insight into the latest industry best practices for maximizing tax credits and deductions. With Brayn Consulting, you’ll have access to expert knowledge and guidance on the R&D Tax Credit, 174 R&E Expenses & Amortization, 45L Energy Efficient Home Credit, 179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deduction, Cost Segregation, Building Science Consulting, Employee Retention Tax Credit, Payroll Tax Credit, Tax Audit Resolution, and the Investment Tax Credit. Elevate your business and start empowering your clients today with Brayn Consulting’s course.

Learning Objectives

• Examine how to leverage tax incentives for renewable and energy-efficient projects
• Recognize which businesses can take advantage broad definition of “qualified research” tied to the R&D tax credit
• Cite ways Building owners can take advantage of the ability to look back and “catch-up” lost depreciation deductions without having to amend a tax return
• Discuss Tax Audit Resolution strategies and comprehensive documentation frameworks
• Understand Section 48 federal tax credit for installing renewable or recoverable property in 2023 & after
• Learn and discuss why the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, software, transportation, and biotechnology industries are earmarked for tax incentives

World’s Liveliest Accounting Update

Course Description

Jeff Sailor will use his signature videos, designed to entertain and educate, to deliver a broad overview of the latest accounting standards. More time will be devoted to areas of broad interest, while a brief introduction will be given for narrow scope topics. Major topics will include the latest issues related to, Credit Losses, Lease Implementation Issue, miscellaneous FASB updates and Compilations and Review issues.. Topics covered in this course include GAAP updates SSARS and accounting theory for useful financial information.

Learning Objectives

• Identify and apply the most pervasive GAAP updates
• Cite the basics of the narrow scope GAAP updates
• Apply the major provisions of the standard for Credit Losses
• Apply the standards for financial instruments
• Apply the standards for preparations, compilations and reviews
• Discuss the aspects of recent fraud cases

Entrepreneurial Strategic Management

Course Description

Bogdan Constantin will teach you how to apply entrepreneurial management strategies and tactics to your firm, team, or company. He’s committed to teaching the disciplines of entrepreneurial thinking that produce not just entrepreneurial inspiration but a strategic frame of mind. You’ll learn how to better measure success and reframe your priorities based on available business levers. You’ll see how your current business or industry environment can influence success or failure and what to do about it. You’ll learn how companies develop unique internal sources of competition to create advantages and thrive with disruptions in their marketplace or industry.

Learning Objectives

• Cite and apply KPIs to measure business success
• Learn how to develop internal sources to create competitive advantages
• Discuss ways companies win with evolving business models and value propositions
• Apply growth strategies and tactics to survive and thrive during marketplace disruptions
• Learn how to create a sustainable, continuous improvement environment
• Identify and discuss ways to Manage commercialization challenges and market launches efficiently and effectively
• See beyond current paradigms in order to uncover innovation needs and to predict impact through strategic idea and concept development

Everybody’s Critical Individual Tax Update

Course Description

Combining the real-life experience of a practicing CPA with essential down-to-earth tax materials in a high-tech format, this powerful presentation will enable participants to grasp recent individual tax changes. You’ll receive the most complete and up-to-date reference manual, written by renowned tax experts.  The digital PDF manual is hyperlinked to the Internal Revenue Code, tax court decisions, and other primary authorities, making it an extremely convenient resource. Join us as our world-class tax instructors share cutting-edge tax planning strategies in a high energy, often humorous presentation style using real-life experiences, which make complicated tax topics easily understandable. Specific course topics will be announced and updated through year-end.

Learning Objectives

• Cite the timing and impact of key provisions of new legislation; and
• Identify key provisions of TCJA and impacts on key provisions by other more recent legislation; and
• Cite current thresholds and phase-outs for key provisions for 2024; and
• Identify requirements for various tax credits applicable to individual taxpayers; and
• Cite the key requirements and thresholds related to foreign financial asset reporting; and
• Identify relevant provisions of ACA applicable to taxpayers in the current year; and
• Identify key provisions of new legislation including Consolidated Appropriations Acts, CARES Act, SECURE Act, and other issuances as well as proposals; and
• Identify rules and issues for IRAs, Roth IRAs, and qualified retirement plans; and
• Cite limitations for contributions, distributions, and conversions; and
• Identify issues with unique retirement plan situations such as self-directed IRAs, loans to participants, and prohibited transactions and the impacts on taxation and assessment of penalties; and
• Identify key rules and regulations including tax issues for online rentals, vacation rentals, and like-kind exchanges; and
• Cite the requirements for real estate rentals for both small investors and real estate professionals; and
• Identify the rules for dealers versus investors in real estate; and
• Cite estate and gift tax exemptions, tax rates, and limitations; and
• Cite current rules and regulations from current and proposed legislation; and
• Cite benefits and drawbacks of Family Limited Partnerships (FLPs) and Limited Liability Companies (LLCs).

Everybody’s Critical Business Tax Update

Course Description

Combining the real-life experience of a practicing CPA with essential down-to-earth tax materials in a high-tech format, this powerful presentation will enable participants to grasp recent individual tax changes. You’ll receive the most complete and up-to-date reference manual, written by renowned tax experts.  The digital PDF manual is hyperlinked to the Internal Revenue Code, tax court decisions, and other primary authorities, making it an extremely convenient resource. Join us as our world-class tax instructors share cutting-edge tax planning strategies in a high energy, often humorous presentation style using real-life experiences, which make complicated tax topics easily understandable. Specific course topics will be announced and updated through year-end.

Learning Objectives

• Identify characteristics of new legislation which impacts businesses.
• Cite rules and regulations related to Form 1099-K for third-party settlement organizations.
• Cite thresholds and limitations in effect for 2023 for businesses.
• Cite general rules and regulations for the preparation of business returns.
• Cite details and identify new legislation including CARES, IRA, ARPA, ACA, BBA, and CAA2021.
• Identify opportunities to use business credits.
• Identify implications of new legislation for tax returns.
• Cite the general rules and regulations related to payroll and payroll taxes.
• Cite provisions of ARPA and CAA2021 and other new legislation.
• Cite the rules and amounts of late filing penalties.
• Identify pros and cons of various entity choices in different situations.
• Cite rules and regulations of the Section 199A QBI deduction.
• Cite rules and regulations related to partnerships including issues related to partnership audits and the new rules.
• Cite important deadlines related to partnership filings and partner notifications.
• Identify the impact of new legislation such as The Taxpayer’s First Act, the 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), and other proposed legislation.

K2’s Tech Update For Busy Professionals

Course Description

Technology continues to evolve and amaze! From new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), to new features in existing tools such as Excel, the possibilities for improved efficiency and internal control are seemingly endless. Participate in this session to learn about key technologies that may impact you and your team in the months and years to come.

In this session, you will learn about critical developments in Microsoft 365 subscriptions, how you can use generative AI to become more productive, developments in Windows that will impact you, security risks and concerns, and tips for using technology more efficiently and effectively. If you’re going to participate in only one technology-focused session this year, this should be the one!

Learning Objectives

• List examples of generative AI tools and how you can take advantage of them
• Identify key new features appearing in Microsoft 365 subscriptions
• Cite examples of security and privacy features that you should consider implementing