The Tax Practitioners Guide to Estate Administration WEBCAST

Overview

Estate and trust administration is a growing part of a CPA’s practice. The CPA should understand the process and implications of estate and trust administration. This course focuses on the CPA’s role as a key member of the administration team.

Highlights

Estate settlement issues. Collection and accounting of assets. Determining the legitimacy of debts and creditors. Payment of creditors. Distribution issues. Probate issues. Will contests. Inventory of assets. Fiduciary duties. Rights of creditors, third parties, and beneficiaries. Federal estate tax issues. State death tax issues. Ancillary estate administration issues. Fiduciary accounting issues. Special issues regarding trusts.

Prerequisites

None.

Designed For

CPAs, EAs, attorneys, financial planners, insurance agents, and bankers.

Objectives

Recognize the CPA’s role in estate administration.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Fees

Credits

Level

Code

Vendor

Fields of Study

Leader(s):

Arthur Werner, Shareholder, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd

Leader Bios

Arthur Werner, Shareholder, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd

4.94 stars out of 5 - speaker rating for 2019

“Art Werner is a great speaker. Smart and entertaining.”
“Very well done! [Art Werner is] engaging and answered questions.”
“Great use of examples [by Art Werner], made the day fly by.” - past attendees

Art Werner is currently a shareholder in and is the President of the lecture firm Werner - Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Mr. Werner’s areas of expertise include business, tax, financial, and estate planning for high net worth individuals. In addition, Mr. Werner is an adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at the Philadelphia University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School. Mr. Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents, Insurance Agents, and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 2,000 eight-hour seminars over the past 20 years. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Werner was rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.

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