Self-Study

Surgent's Guide to Partner Capital Account Reporting

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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.

Major subjects

• 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.

Learning objectives

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

Who should take this program?

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

Pricing

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