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2024 Fiduciary & Tax Accounting Guide for Estates and Trusts

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Online/Webcast

4.00 Credits

Member Price $129.00

Non-Member Price $159.00

Overview

This course will review the fundamentals of fiduciary accounting and provide a reporting guide for determining whether receipts and expenditures are assigned to income or principal/corpus. Critical issues, rules, and special opportunities when preparing your clients' Form 1041 U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts will be examined, including what is considered taxable income and allowable deductions.  Planning and potential pitfalls will also be explored. 


  • Speaker - Doug Van Der Aa, CPA, JD
  • Highlights

    • Fundamentals of fiduciary accounting
    • Uniform Principal and Income Act
    • Discretionary Power to Adjust
    • Allocations between principal and income
    • Estates & Trusts tax bracket
    • Form 1041 - Schedule I
    • Filing requirements
    • Section 645 Election
    • Estimated taxes

    Prerequisites

    Basic working knowledge of estate and trust tax rules

    Designed For

    Practitioners and members in industry seeking to gain a better understanding of fiduciary accounting and tax rules of estate and trusts

    Objectives

    • Apply a working knowledge of the financial accounting rules for estates and trusts
    • Identify current tax guidelines when preparing a clients estates and trusts return
    • Identify planning and potential pitfalls

    Preparation

    None

    Non-Member Price $159.00

    Member Price $129.00