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Overview of Bankruptcy

OVERVIEW OF BANKRUPTCY

Cost Free
Presentation Length 1.0 hour

Recorded DateJuly 31, 2020
CPE:Not available
(archived webinars do not offer CPE credits)
Subject AreaSpecialized Knowledge
Course LevelBasic
Course Description

This webinar is for tax professionals advising clients that might have to file bankruptcy or that have customers that have filed bankruptcy. We will cover the different types of bankruptcies for individuals and businesses, strategies to consider when filing, how the bankruptcy process works and what bankruptcy means to a client’s credit ability. Attendees of this webinar will also learn when a client should continue to do business with a customer that has filed for bankruptcy and has “stuck” your client and circumstances when they should, how to advise a client to circumvent filing bankruptcy and set up an informal arrangement as well as other issues clients have to deal with or are concerned about. Included will be useful checklists that could be used to advise clients. This webinar is updated with the most recent bankruptcy changes.

Learning Objectives:  


  • Learn the different types of individual and business bankruptcies and how they will affect your clients

  • Understand ways to spot a business that might be planning a bankruptcy and how clients can protect themselves somewhat

  • Discover why a client should continue to do business with some customers in Chapter 11

  • Know how to advise a client on an informal arrangement instead of a Chapter 11

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Ed is a partner in Withum’s East Brunswick, NJ, office and has over 40 years of public accounting experience. He is a licensed, certified public accountant in New Jersey and New York. He is accredited by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in business valuation and as a personal financial specialist (PFS). Ed is also admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and has testified as an expert witness in federal and state court regarding business valuations.

A graduate of City College of New York, Ed earned his bachelor of business administration degree. He is a member of the AICPA, the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants (NJSCPA), and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA). Ed was a founding partner of Mendlowitz Weitsen, LLP, CPAs, which joined Withum in 2005. Currently, he serves on the NYSSCPA Estate Planning Committee and was chairman of the committee that planned the NYSSCPA’s 100th Anniversary. The author of 16 books, Ed has also written hundreds of articles for business and professional journals and newsletters. He is the contributing editor to the Practitioners Publishing Company’s 1998/1999 706/709 Deskbook and the AICPA 2004 edition of The Management of an Accounting Practice Handbook. He is on the editorial board of Bottom Line/Personal and Tax Hotline financial newsletters. Appearing regularly on television news programs, Ed has also been quoted in numerous major newspapers and periodicals in the United States. He is the Lawler Award recipient for the best article published in 2001 in the Journal of Accountancy.

Ed is a frequent speaker to many professional and business groups, including the AICPA, NJSCPA, NYSSCPA, American Management Association, the National Committee for Monetary Reform, University of Medicine and Dentistry in NJ, and many more. For 11 years, he taught financial analysis courses, corporate financial policy and theory, monetary and fiscal policy, and managerial accounting in the MBA program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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