The CPA as Strategic Advisor: Leading the Client Advisory Team WEBCAST

Overview

This course provides tax and accounting professionals with a framework for serving as the lead advisor in a multidisciplinary planning environment. Participants will explore how to coordinate with attorneys, financial planners, insurance professionals, and bankers to deliver integrated planning strategies. The course emphasizes identifying opportunities across estate, financial, retirement, and tax planning while managing collaboration and delivering cohesive client solutions.

Highlights

The CPA as team leader. Roles of key advisory professionals. Identifying cross-disciplinary planning opportunities. Coordinating planning strategies. Communication and collaboration. Structuring advisory relationships. Risk and professional responsibility.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of individual taxation.

Designed For

CPAs, EAs, tax professionals, and attorneys, as well as other financial professionals involved in tax planning and client advisory services.

Objectives

Identify the CPA’s role as the lead advisor in a multidisciplinary planning team. Determine how to coordinate with other professionals in client engagements. Evaluate planning opportunities across estate, financial, retirement, and tax disciplines. Recognize strategies for managing communication among advisors. Identify risks and professional responsibility considerations.

Preparation

None.

Notice

None.

Fees

Credits

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Code

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Fields of Study

Leader(s):

Arthur Werner, Shareholder, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd

Leader Bios

Arthur Werner, Shareholder, Werner-Rocca Seminars Ltd

4.94 stars out of 5 - speaker rating for 2019

“Art Werner is a great speaker. Smart and entertaining.”
“Very well done! [Art Werner is] engaging and answered questions.”
“Great use of examples [by Art Werner], made the day fly by.” - past attendees

Art Werner is currently a shareholder in and is the President of the lecture firm Werner - Rocca Seminars, Ltd. Mr. Werner’s areas of expertise include business, tax, financial, and estate planning for high net worth individuals. In addition, Mr. Werner is an adjunct professor of taxation in the Master of Science in Taxation program at the Philadelphia University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mr. Werner received his B.S. in Accounting and his M.S. in Taxation from Widener University. He holds a J.D. in Law from the Delaware Law School. Mr. Werner lectures extensively in the areas of Estate Planning, Financial Planning, and Estate and Gift Taxation to Certified Public Accountants, Enrolled Agents, Insurance Agents, and Financial Planners, and has presented well in excess of 2,000 eight-hour seminars over the past 20 years. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Werner was rated as having the highest speaker knowledge in his home state of Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants, was awarded the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader Award in the State of Nevada, the Florida Institute of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award, and the South Carolina Association of CPAs Outstanding Discussion Leader Award.

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