S Corporations: Key Issues, Compliance, and Tax Strategies - Tax Staff Essentials
Online
8.00 Credits
Member Price $319.00
Non-Member Price $399.00
Overview
Explaining the misunderstood
The S corporation form is unique and often misunderstood. You’ll learn how to assist your clients with the most misconstrued areas of S corporation taxation and how they can use S status to their advantage.
Updated for recent legislation, including H.R. 1
The world of taxation is never static. H.R. 1, commonly referred to as OBBBA and passed in 2025, affected virtually every type of taxpayer, including S corporations. Refreshed materials discuss the H.R. 1 provisions that affect S corporations and their shareholders, including the qualified business income deduction and Section 179 expensing.
The course has also been updated for legislative and regulatory developments related to:
Weighing the pros and cons
S corporation status doesn't suit every business. Throughout the course, you'll learn when it is advantageous or disadvantageous to be taxed as an S corporation.
Making the model work
You'll be exposed to methods of effectively communicating with potential business clients and existing shareholders about how you can make the S corporation business model work for them.
Part of Tax Staff Essentials Level 1
This self-study online course is part of Tax Staff Essentials Level 1, a comprehensive learning program that provides tax staff with the technical training required to support their teams.
Objectives
- Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of S corporation status.
- Recognize when the S election becomes effective.
- Identify shareholder consent rules and causes of invalid elections.
- Identify permitted fiscal years, elections, and user fees.
- Recognize events causing involuntary termination.
- Recognize when an S corporation is subject to tax at the entity level.
- Recognize how accumulated earnings and profits, accumulated adjustments accounts, other adjustments accounts, and shareholder bases are affected by distributions.
- Recall the applicability of various S corporation filing requirements.
Highlights
Designed For
Prerequisites
None
Notice
You will receive an email from the AICPA with instructions to access the webinar.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
William Harden, AICPA
William Harden Ph.D., CPA, ChFC Bill is an Associate Professor in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at UNC Greensboro where he teaches tax courses on flow-through entities, individual and corporate tax, tax research, IRS practices and ethics. Bill has over twenty years of experience in taxation. He began his public accounting career in 1990 in the Dallas office of one of the Big Six accounting firms. In addition to his university teaching, Bill consults on tax and financial planning issues and maintains a sole practice in North Carolina, focusing on taxation and financial consulting for small businesses and individuals. Bill has testified before the House Ways and Means Oversight Sub-Committee on internet taxation issues. He was the recipient of a Lybrand Certificate of Merit in 2002. Bill has been involved in CPE instruction for over a decade. He was the author of the AICPA’s tax update courses from 2007 through 2012 and received AICPA instructor awards in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Bill also received NCACPA outstanding instructor awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Bill has authored over 30 publications in tax accounting and financial planning journals, including the Journal of Financial Service Professionals, Strategic Finance, National Tax Journal, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Tax Notes, Tax Advisor, Journal of the American Society of CLU and ChFC. Mr. Harden is currently a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Taxation Association, the National Tax Association, the AICPA, and the North Carolina Association of CPAs. He is a past board member of the Piedmont Chapter of the NCACPA.
Non-Member Price $399.00
Member Price $319.00