On-Demand

2 CPE Credits

Surgent's Guide to Partner Capital Account Reporting

On-Demand
2 CPE Credits

This course is delivered as a recorded video. After completing all sessions, you must pass the final exam with a minimum score of 70% to receive credit.

Accounting and finance professionals are responsible for presenting partner capital accounts on the tax basis. But what does this mean and how have rules changed in recent years regarding partner capital accounts? This webinar covers exactly that. For accounting and finance professionals preparing partnership 1065 forms, this course explains these complex rules in practical and understandable terms.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how a partner determines and reports his or her tax basis capital account 

Major Topics

  • How a partner’s outside basis and capital account differ
  • Reconciling Schedule M-2 Form 1065 with Partnership K-1 Schedule L
  • IRS requirement to report partner tax basis on the transactional approach
  • Implications if a capital account is negative
  • Deficit restoration accounts and qualified income offsets
  • Modified outside basis method and modified previously taxed capital method
  • Determining a partner’s beginning capital account 
  • Beginning capital account for partnerships and partners consistently reporting on the tax basis
  • The two types of adjustments under 754 and how 743 and 734 require different capital account presentations

CPE Credits Available

2 CPE Credits
2
Taxes

Things to Know About This Course

Course Level

  • Basic

Professional Area of Focus

  • Enrolled Agent - IRS Credit Eligible
  • Individual Tax
  • Tax

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of tax rules relating to partnerships and partners

Advanced Preparation

None

Intended Audience

Accounting and finance professionals who will be preparing partnership income tax returns

Provider

Surgent CPE

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