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Bukers Taxanalysis Online Course

Course Highlights

  • Online learning environment accessed from any computer
  • Interactive and engaging user interface
  • Self-paced and flexible to meet your timeline
  • Visual walk-throughs of all relevant tax forms and schedules
  • Hundreds of real-life tax return exercises
  • Line-by-line detailed solutions
  • 29 different learning modules
  • 6 comprehensive tax return case studies
  • Updated annually for all tax law and tax form changes to keep you up-to-date

The Analysis of Pass-Through Entities

  • Partnerships, LLCs, LLPs, and REMICs
  • S Corporations
  • Estates and Trusts
  • How to use the Schedule K-1 to correctly show the cash flow from each type of entity
  • How the Schedule K-1 must be analyzed differently for each type of entity and why
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Recurring and Nonrecurring Items

  • How to incorporate their effects into your cash flow analysis
  • Simple adjustments for recurring and nonrecurring items
  • Paired adjustments
  • Investments adjustments
  • Typically nonrecurring items

Multiple Pass-Through K-1s 

  • Tiered partnerships are widespread in tax returns these days
  • K-1s can pass through interest, dividends, royalties, and capital gains and losses that look like cash but aren't
  • Failing to properly identify them and exclude each of these pass-throughs from your cash flows can lead to huge overstatements of cash flow and a bad loan
  • Learn how to spot all the various schedules where these items can pop up on a return, how to fix them and make sure your cash flows are correct
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  • Interest Expense Adjustments for Cash Flow

  • How to properly arrive at Cash Flow Available to Service Debt
  • How to properly arrive at Net Cash Flow

Capital Gains and Losses Under a Variety of Scenarios

  • Importance of identifying recurring vs. nonrecurring capital gains
  • Split year purchases and sales and why they make a difference
  • When are capital losses real cash flow and when are they paper?

Plus These "Must Know" Topics:

  • Historical versus recurring cash flow and how to separately calculate each one, depending on your needs
  • Hidden cash flow and how to find it within a return
  • How passive loss rules can drastically impact a cash flow analysis, if not handled properly
  • Net operating losses: cash or noncash and why
  • Section 1031 like-kind exchanges and their cash flow effects
  • Accrual to cash conversions
  • Non-cash expenses and where specifically to find and adjust for these throughout a return
  • Analyzing all business activities:
  • Sole proprietorships on Schedule C
  • Rental real estate activities on Schedule E
  • Farming income on Schedule F
  • Fiscal year-end pass-through entities and how to factor these into your cash flows
  • Section 179 Expense and how to handle it
  • The dangers of "blank" K-1s and how to avoid this trap