<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; color: black"This course gives CPAs the knowledge to help their clients plan for retirement by evaluating how much retirement income they will require and planning for how to reach their retirement goals.</span </div
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<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Help clients determine retirement strategies for the desired retirement lifestyle</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Identify resources available for retirement</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Explain how budgeting can identify retirement resources</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Understand how to build the three-legged retirement stool: employer retirement, savings, and Social Security</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Understand the need for Plan B when the ideal retirement goal is not achievable</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Explain ways that clients can convert the equity in a home to retirement income</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Explain how the value of a small business can be converted to retirement income</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Explain survival possibilities and how first-to-die and last-to-die survival probabilities are used in retirement planning for married couples</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Understand timing regarding the use of taxable retirement funds and nontaxable funds, and strategies to minimize income tax on Social Security</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Recognize the role of various investment types, such as life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, equity holdings, and bonds in retirement planning</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Summarize key points of recent research on the sustainability of retirement income and maintenance of desired retirement lifestyles</span </li</span</ul</ul
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<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Retirement planning using variables such as desired lifestyle, travel plans, housing plans, medical needs and family needs to customize a retirement plan unique to the client</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Using the residence and other real estate as retirement assets through equity and rent</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Using the small business as a retirement resource through creative retirement plans</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Overview of asset allocation, portfolio management, portfolio rebalancing, and investment selection concepts, before and after retirement</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"The three-legged retirement stool of employer retirement, savings, and Social Security</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Planning with the new retirement provisions of SECURE Act 2.0</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Distribution/asset liquidation planning</span
</li<li<span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Times New Roman"Analysis of the most current/important research on retirement planning and sustaining retirement income levels</span </li</span</ul</ul
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Basic knowledge of retirement planning
CPAs looking to advise clients on retirement planning, and CPAs looking for effective strategies for their own retirement