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Friday, November 21, 2025 Live Webcast

Understanding S Corporation Taxation: Shareholder Basis, AAA, and Retained Earnings (E2511332)

11:00 AM - 12:40 PM EST

Registration: 10:30 AM EST

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2 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

Even though they have been around for several years, the tax laws pertaining to S corporations remain some of the more difficult areas of the Internal Revenue Code. Given the rising popularity of S corporations, understanding how shareholder basis and the equity section of the balance sheet work together for tax purposes is imperative for nearly any tax practitioner. In this course, we will discuss this relationship. Using examples and illustrations, we will show how contributions, operating transactions, and distributions affect shareholder basis as well as equity.

This course features a live instructor and has been specifically designed for the NJCPA.

DESIGNED FOR

CPAs and tax practitioners who work with S corporation business clients and S corporation shareholders

BENEFITS

  • Recognize the formula for calculating S corporation shareholder basis
  • Identify the items of income and deduction that are allocated to AAA, PTI, AE&P, and OAA
  • Calculate the tax effects of a distribution on shareholder basis and AAA

HIGHLIGHTS

  • S corporation earnings layers
  • Observations on earnings layers
  • S corporation basis calculation
  • IRC 351 transactions
  • Four loss tiers
  • Appreciated property distributions

COURSE LEVEL

Basic

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • Qualifies for IRS credit

INSTRUCTOR

Gregory Carnes

Gregory A. Carnes

Dr. Gregory Carnes serves as Raburn Eminent Scholar of Accounting at the University of North Alabama (UNA) and previously served as Dean of the Sanders College of Business and Technology (COBT) for 11 years. Dr. Carnes is well known nationally as an academic leader, having served as President of the Accounting Program Leadership Group, President-Elect of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and Secretary of the American Taxation Association. He began a three-year term as a board member of the Southern Business Administrators Association in 2022. He has served as Chair of the Education Committee of the Alabama Society of CPAs and as President of the North Alabama ASCPA chapter. He has also had significant service roles in the past with the Illinois CPA Society and the American Accounting Association. Dr. Carnes has authored tax material for Wiley/CPA Excel and UWorld for the last 20 years. Dr. Carnes also has co-authored two tax textbooks for Wiley, the first of which, Fundamentals of Taxation of Individuals, was published in fall 2023. The second book, Taxation of Business Entities, will be available in fall 2025. He has also delivered tax training for national accounting firms and approximately 25 accounting state societies. Dr. Carnes has published approximately 30 articles in leading academic and professional journals. He is a leader in the local business community, serving as Chair of the Shoals Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors for 2017-2018. He served as Chair of the Board of the Shoals Business Incubator in 2019 and continues to serve on its board. Dr. Carnes served as President of the Rotary International chapter in Florence, AL in 2023-2024.

PRICING

$99.00 - Member

$137.00 - Nonmember

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Note: Online pre-registration will close on November 21 at 10:30 AM.

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