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Dec 14, 2009

Corporate Taxation Onsite Symposium - 12/16/2009

Relevante
 

Relevante has scheduled a full day onsite symposium on Corporate Taxation worth 8 Tax CPE Credits on Wednesday, December 16th 2009, at Malvern, PA.

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SYMPOSIUM & WEBINARS AGENDA
TIME (EST)
  Registration and Networking, Continental Breakfast
07:30 AM – 08:00 AM
  Introduction & Facilitator
08:00 AM – 08:10 AM
  Sales & Use Taxation – Compliance, Audit Defense and Reverse Audit
08:10 AM – 09:00 AM
  Tax Planning Strategies for Business Owning Real Estate
09:00 AM – 09:50 AM
  Break
09:50 AM – 10:05 AM
  The Tax Implications of Buying and Selling a Business In These Trying Times
10:05 AM – 11:45 AM
  Lunch
11:45 AM – 12:25 PM
  Issues in Not-for-Profit Tax Compliance
12:25 PM – 02:05 PM
  Break
02:05 PM– 02:20 PM
  The Most Compelling Income Tax Planning Opportunities Today
02:20 PM – 03:10 PM
  Expert Panel Discussion
03:10 PM – 04:00 PM
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  •   CFOs
  •   VP- Finance
  •   Internal Audit Directors
  •   Controllers
  •   Audit Managers
  •   Finance Directors
  •   Finance Managers
  •   Risk Management professionals
  •   Consultants
  •   Internal Controls Managers
  •   Staff Accountants
  •   IT Managers
  •   Information Security Managers
  •   Accountants
  •   Staff/Senior Auditors
  •   Project Managers
  •   SOX Managers

Event Name

Corporate Taxation Symposium

Date

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Time 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM
CPE Credits  8 TAX Credits
Cost  $130
Venue  The Conference Center at Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, PA
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CO-PRESENTERS
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Todd Turk CPA, CMI
National Tax Director
Paragon Tax Group, LLC

Todd Turk brings 13 years of experience providing corporations with advice on state sales and use taxation, federal taxation, and other state tax matters in both boutique consulting firms and public accounting. His strategies have resulted in millions of dollars of savings for clients in both small firms and in large, Fortune 500 corporations.

His primary responsibilities are developing and implementing Sales and Use Tax compliance strategies, conducting Sales and Use Tax refund reviews, and assisting clients through state Sales and Use Tax audits. Mr. Turk speaks at numerous conferences on state and local taxation.
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Deborah S. Rock, CPA, CVA
Reinsel Kuntz Lesher, LLP

Deborah S. Rock, CPA, CVA is a Business Valuation & Litigation Consultant of the Lancaster office of Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP. Deb's experience includes small business reviews and compilations, but she specializes in matters of business valuation, litigation and fraud.

Deb joined the firm in 2003 and has over four years of experience in public accounting and more than twenty years experience in private industry.
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Gerald R. Slapkus, CPA, MST
Tax Manager
Elko & Associates Ltd

Gerry joined the Elko team in 1997, first as consultant, and later moving to full-time employment as a manager in the tax department. Prior to that, he spent 11 years with Touche Ross in Philadelphia (now Deloitte), rising to the senior manager level, and 6 years as the tax director of QVC, Inc. Collectively, he has almost 30 years in the tax arena.

Over his career, he has worked primarily with the taxation of corporations and partnerships. At Elko, he has developed technical niche areas dealing with mergers and acquisitions, and is generally the "go to person" for most tax issues involving "for-profit" entities. He has been an instructor for numerous in-house CPE sessions and outside seminars on individual and business year end planning, business succession planning, state taxation, and various other tax concepts. He is also a key player in recruiting and providing insight and support with regard to the development of personnel guidelines for the tax department and the firm.
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Eric R. Wenger, CPA, MST
Tax Partner
Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP

Eric is the Partner-In-Charge of the Tax Services Group in Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP’s Lancaster office. He specializes in strategic tax planning and compliance for corporations, partnerships and individuals. Eric works extensively with the firm’s tax outsourcing clients, dealing with issues surrounding consolidated tax returns, multi-state taxation and accounting for income taxes. He has experience successfully representing clients before the IRS and state tax agencies. He also is active in the firm’s recruiting initiatives.

Eric joined the firm in 2002 and was named to the partnership in 2008. He previously practiced in tax with KPMG LLP and Arthur Andersen LLP. Eric regularly presents seminars and CPE programs on various tax-related topics. He has volunteered to teach various accounting topics with World Vision in Ghana, Africa and with Educational Services International in China.
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Gerald M. Farley
Vice President
Bernstein Global Wealth Management

Mr. Farley is an advisor in the Philadelphia office of Bernstein Global Wealth Management. He is responsible for advising affluent families and institutions, as well as their respective trusts, estates, foundations, endowments and pension plans. Mr. Farley, in conjunction with Bernstein’s Wealth Management Group, works closely with his client’s trusted tax and legal advisors on all matters, including tax and estate planning, concentrated stock positions and the sale of privately held businesses.

Mr. Farley worked for a Fortune 500 company for fifteen years. As an Executive, his responsibilities included financial analysis, budgeting and strategic planning for the firm’s institutional clients.
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Wendy Clavin
Tax Compliance Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Wendy Clavin resides in the Philadelphia office of PricewaterhouseCoopers where she is a tax compliance Manager in the Firm’s NTS EOTS Practice. In this role, Wendy’s practice focuses on providing advice regarding tax compliance issues associated with both tax-exempt and for-profit organizations, including higher education and health care organizations.

Wendy has over 10 years of experience serving a variety of PwC clients. She also has extensive experience with unrelated business income, Partnership issues, controversy resolution, as well as other tax compliance issues associated with, corporations, insurance companies, trusts, estates, limited liability companies, and S-Corporations. Wendy has presented "The New Form 990" before United Way and various PwC clients.
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Charles Petosa, MBA, CPA
Senior Consultant
Relevante, Inc

Chuck is a Certified Public Accountant with 24 years of hands-on experience in business management, including over 19 years reporting to senior management levels. He has a thorough knowledge of financial analysis, management, reporting, business process, internal control, corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Chuck has broad experience in industries including real estate, wholesaling, retail, manufacturing, advertising and higher education. He continues to provide organizations with teaching, supervision, training and staff development and has taught a variety of accounting courses at several local colleges and universities.

 
SCHEDULE

Sales & Use Taxation – Compliance, Audit Defense and Reverse Audit

Learning Objectives:
Educate your corporate taxation audience on topical areas to maximize sales & use tax refunds and compliance, and minimize audit exposure.

Time                  8:10 – 9:00 AM (EST)
CPE Credits        
1 - Tax

Speaker
Todd Turk, CPA, CMI
National Tax Director
Paragon Tax Group

Tax Planning Strategies for Business Owning Real Estate

Learning Objectives:
Recent tax law changes have created unique cash flow generating opportunities for any business that owns real estate. This seminar will highlight recent court cases and tax laws that permit businesses to write off previously unclaimed cumulative depreciation deductions. Even businesses that sustain taxable losses may benefit from this strategy because of the law passed in November 2009 that now permits businesses to carry back taxable losses five years.

Time
 
                 
 09:00 – 09:50 AM (EST)
CPE Credits       
 1 - Tax

Speakers                   
Eric R. Wenger, CPA, MST     Deborah S. Rock, CPA, CVA
Tax Partner                             Reinsel Kuntz Lesher, LLP
Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP
The Tax Implications of Buying and Selling a Business In These Trying Times

Learning Objectives: Topic deals with the tax impact on buyers and sellers who choose to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of their business. It will cover the benefits and pitfalls of specific entity structures, conversion of the entity from one form to another, ways to transfer the business that will provide the maximum tax benefit for the buyers and the sellers, and the tax impact of transfers on key employees, family members and any other parties to the transaction.

Time                  10:05 – 11:45 AM (EST)
CPE Credits       
 2 - Tax

Speaker             Gerald R. Slapkus, CPA, MST
                          Tax Manager
                          Elko & Associates

Issues in Not-for-Profit Tax Compliance

Learning Objectives:  The participant will be able to recognize common types of tax-exempt, not-for-profit organizations; what makes them tax-exempt; what tax-exempt actually means; the tax implications of various transactions; and the types of tax compliance issues faced by those organizations.

Time
 
                
12:25 – 2:05 PM (EST)
CPE Credits       
2 - Tax

Speaker   
Chuck Petosa, MBA, CPA
          Wendy Clavin
Senior Consultant                        Tax Compliance Manager
Relevante, Inc.                            PricewaterhouseCoopers

The Most Compelling Income Tax Planning Opportunities Today

Time                 02:20 – 03:10 PM (EST)
CPE Credits       1 - Tax

Speaker   
Gerald M. Farley
Vice President
Bernstein Global Wealth Management

Expert Panel Discussion

Time                  03:10 – 04:00 PM (EST)
CPE Credits        
1 - Tax
        

Panelists
Todd Turk, CPA, CMI
National Tax Director
Paragon Tax Group
Eric R. Wenger, CPA, MST
Tax Partner
Reinsel Kuntz Lesher LLP
Gerald R. Slapkus, CPA, MST
Tax Manager
Elko & Associates Ltd
Wendy Clavin
Tax Compliance Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Chuck Petosa, MBA, CPA
Senior Consultant
Relevante, Inc. 
Gerald M. Farley
Vice President
Bernstein Global Wealth Management
 

This Symposium also gives you the opportunity to network with senior professionals from various Fortune 1000 companies. Attendees at our prior events were from companies including:

Bryn Mawr Trust Company
About Relevante Inc.
Relevante is a leading consulting practice providing Accounting & Technology Solutions to Fortune 1000 and other industry leaders. The company services clients throughout the metro markets of Philadelphia, New York and Hyderabad, India. For more information about Relevante, please visit our website at: www.relevante.com.
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Relevante Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE Sponsors. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, Nashville TN 37219-2417. Telephone: 615-880-4200. Website: www.nasba.org

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