Instructor
David Peters
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Instructor
David R. Peters, CPA, CFP, CLU, CPCU, MST, MBA
Founder & Owner, Peters Professional Education
David Peters is the Founder and Owner of Peters Professional Education in Richmond, VA, and is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as an Investment Advisor Representative (IAR) with Peters Financial LLC. He has over fifteen years of experience in financial services, including 3 years in the hedge fund industry and six years in the insurance industry.
David was the first-ever Chief Financial Officer at Compare.com - a position he held for over three years. He is a national CPE Instructor/Discussion Leader for Surgent, Kaplan, the AICPA and Don Farmer Tax Courses. He regularly teaches courses in accounting, finance, insurance, financial planning, and ethics throughout the United States.
He holds four master’s degrees and contributes regularly to various CPA publications, including NCACPA’s Interim Report, SCACPA’s CPA Report, and VSCPA’s Disclosures. He was also a co-author of the Virginia CPA Ethics course in 2018, 2019 and 2020 – a required course for all CPAs licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Financial planning for a small business is inherently tied with the owner. When you plan for the future of the company, you are planning for the individual as well. Trying to get the owner additional cash from his/her company is a common issue faced by many advisors. However, it is important to realize that the form of that cash movement may result in very different tax implications. Using easy to understand examples and cases, this course will explore the common methods used to transfer cash from a small business to the owner him/herself. We will look at how the tax implications differ depending on entity type and the form of payment.
- Compare the basic tax implications of distributions from a C-Corporation, S-Corporation, and Partnership
- Calculate the tax implications of cash distributions and property distributions from S-Corporations and Partnerships
- Calculate tax basis for a partnership and an S-Corporation
- Identify the factors that establish reasonable compensation, reasonable rent, and reasonable loans between a closely-held entity and its owner
- The Small Business Owner’s Problem
- Distributions from a C-Corporation
- Distributions from a Partnership
- Distributions from an S-Corporation
- Reasonable Compensation, Rent, and Loans
Fundamentals of corporate and pass-through entity taxation.
CPAs and financial advisors who work with small business owners.