Special Rules for Reporting Special Events (Non-profits)

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Course Description
Course Qualification
Presenter
FAQ

Course Description

Overview

Common Pitfalls

3 mins
GAAP Direct Costs of Benefits to Donors

10 mins
GAAP Reporting of Special Events

17 mins
GAAP Reporting of Auctions

28 mins
Fundraising Event Contributions

41 mins

Course Description

Special events are critical in nature and very important from various perspectives from non-profit organizations. The pandemic has forced many NFPs to rethink traditional approaches to them, but they remain some of the largest fundraisers and methods of awareness. As if event planning is not complicated enough, organizations also must take care to properly present the associated revenues and costs in their financial reporting.

At most of these special events, the attendee is getting some type of goods or services -for instance, dinner or some kind of entertainment; but the attendee is paying more than what needs to obtain that good or service than it is worth in order to contribute to the nonprofit. Therein lies the complexity. Typically, accounting for special events are tricky from a GAAP and tax point of view. They present with different reporting requirements for financial statements, tax reporting purposes, and donor purposes.

Major Topic Covered:

The appropriate methods of recording activities for special events
How they should be presented in financial statements and on your tax return.
Identification of various benefits to donors:
Key differences between fundraisers and gaming especially for the IRS
How special event revenue and expenses are presented on Form 990

After attending this webinar all CPAs and accounting professionals will be able to evaluate the proper accounting and tax reporting for these special events.

Learning Objectives

To recognize the different types of benefits to donors and how those costs are reported in the financial statements
To explore the three different ways special events revenue and expenses can appear in the financial statements
To differentiate between fundraising and gaming according to the IRS
To familiarize with the placement of special event revenue and expenses on IRS Form 990

Who Should Attend?

Accountant
Accounting Firm
Accounting Managers
Bookkeepers & Accountants & Tax Preparers
CPA (Industry)
CPA - Mid Size Firm
CPA - Small Firm
Senior Accountant
Staff of Accounting Firm
Tax Accountant (Industry)
Tax Attorney
Tax Director (Industry)
Tax Firm
Tax Managers
Tax Practitioners
Tax Preparer
Tax Pros
Young CPA

Course Qualification

Webinar Qualifies For

1 CE Credit of Federal tax-related matters for California Registered Tax Preparers (CRTP) (Approval No. 6273-CE-0348)
1 CPE Credit of Taxes for Certified Public Accountants (CPA-US)
1 CE Credit of Taxes for Enrolled Agents (EA) (Approval No. GEHNZ-T-00343-20-S)
1 CE Credit of Federal tax-related matters for Oregon Registered Tax Preparers (ORTP) (Approval No. GEHNZ-T-00343-20-S)
1 CE Credit of Federal tax-related matters for Maryland Tax Preparer (MRTP) (Approval No. GEHNZ-T-00343-20-S)
1 CE Credit for Certified Fiduciary & Investment Risk Specialist (CFIRS)
1 CE Credit for Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS)
1 General Credit of Taxes for Accountant/Bookkeeper/Tax Professionals

Additional details

Course Level :

Basic
Credits :

1
Instructional Method :

QAS Self Study
Pre-requisites :

None
Advance Preparation :

None

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Presenter

About Presenter

Lucas LaChance

Partner, Lane Gorman Trubitt, LLC

Lucas is a Texas Society of CPAs Rising Star Award-winning experienced auditor, director, board member, manager, and publisher with more than 15 years of leadership experience in external audit and internal audit with an emphasis on risk-based (COSO) audit approaches. His responsibilities include the oversight and management of a department of more than 30 professionals (budget monitoring, analysis metrics, recruiting/retention, coaching, mentoring); partnering with clients with assets in excess of $150MM+ to identify, analyze, and mitigate financial and industry risks to their strategic plan; planning and execution of multiple, large-scale, simultaneous projects; and development and implementation of numerous accounting and finance presentations to external clients, committees, and boards as well as to local, state, and national audiences about accounting industry developments.

About Company

Lane Gorman Trubitt, LLC

www.lgt-cpa.com

For more than 69 years, Lane Gorman Trubitt, LLC (LGT) has served the Southwest region from its location in Uptown Dallas. The firm is comprised of more than 110 team members who have a variety of professional skills and industry specialization; yet, they all share the same passion to support and grow local businesses with tax, assurance and consulting work.

In addition to the professional services they provide, LGT hosts multiple educational events a year to provide an advantage to their local community members by helping them remain aware of the continuous adjustments affecting businesses.

To provide wealth strategies to our valued clients, LGT has two affiliated companies - LGT Financial Advisors LLC and LGT Insurance Services, Inc.

Credentials. LGT is licensed by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Quality Assurance. The AICPA Division for CPA Firms sponsors a program of peer (quality) review. This program is designed to give the public confidence in the quality of a firm’s audit and accounting procedures. LGT has participated in this voluntary quality control review program every three years since 1978, and all of our peer review reports have been unqualified.

Philanthropic Efforts. Our team members have made it a point to give back to the community. To that end, we participate in more than 20 not-for-profit organizations from volunteer efforts and charitable donations to Board membership. We actively support a number of other charities and foundations within our community

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