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Past Tax Events
11/22/11Taxation Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
11/3/11

Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
10/25/11Taxation Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
10/25/11Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
12:00 PM (PST)
10/6/11Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
12:00 PM (PST)
10/5/11Taxation Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
9/29/11Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
9/16/11Tax Career Fair
3:00-5 p.m.
536 Mission Street
6th Floor GGU Center
San Francisco, CA 94105
9/14/11PricewaterhouseCoopers Back to Campus Live Chat
1:00 - 2:00 PM PST (4:00 - 5:00 PM EST)
9/1/11GGU Accounting Club: Tax and Accounting Happy Hour Mixer
7:30 PM
7/17/11Taxation Informational Webinar
12:00 PM (PST)
7/30/11BDO Sponsored Event: Relay for Life
Join BDO in support of Relay for life, an event to benefit the American Cancer Society.
5/19/11A Mid-Year California Tax Update
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
To view the event presentation materials, please click here
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5/4/11TEI San Francisco Chapter Mixer
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Pacific Coast Brewing Co.
906 Washingtong St.
Oakland, CA
4/21/11Taxation Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
4/11/11Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
3/3/11

Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
12:00 PM (PST)
3/2/11 Taxation Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
3/1/11Full-Time Accelerated Cohort Program Informational Webinar
5:00 PM (PST)
1/24/11Oracle Meet and Greet
5:00PM-6:00PM
Plaza Level Student Lounge
San Francisco Campus
12/8/10Taxation Informational Webinar
11:00 AM (PST)
11/30/10California Updates: Year End Planning
Lynn Freer, EA, President, Spidell Publishing Inc.
11:00 AM (PST)
View the Tax Planning Handout Materials
View the Tax Planning Presentation
View the Tax Planning Lecture
11/17/10Taxation Informational Webinar
6:00 PM (PST)
10/27/10Circular 230 Implications for 2011
Karen Hawkins, Director of the IRS Office of Professional Responsibility
6:00PM-7:30PM (PST)
5/5/10TEI San Francisco Chapter Mixer
5:30-7:00 p.m.
Pacific Coast Brewing Co.
906 Washingtong St.
Oakland, CA
1/19/10Oracle Information Session
4:00PM-6:00PM
Plaza Level Student Lounge
San Francisco Campus
11/4/09TEI San Francisco Chapter Mixer
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Perry's Embarcadero
155 Steuart St.
San Francisco, CA
9/17/09Tax Career Fair
2:30-5 p.m.
LLM students allowed from 4-5 p.m.
536 Mission Street
5th Floor Auditorium, Room 5310
San Francisco, CA 94105
6/4/09San Francisco Breakfast Panel: Business and Tax Issues in A Troubled Economy
Thursday, June 4, 2009
8AM - 10AM
536 Mission Street, Room 5310 (5th Floor)
Downtown San Francisco
Cost: $25; breakfast included

Golden Gate University and Alvarez & Marsel Taxand are proud to present a breakfast panel discussion, "Business and Tax Issues in a Troubled Economy, on Thursday, June 4, 2009. Join this experienced panel for an engaging discussion emphasizing the management of tax risks and the use of tax efficient cash management alternatives in this uncertain time.

This panel discussion is eligible for two hours of CPE/MCLE credit.

This panel will be moderated by George C. Koutouras, formerly a Golden Gate Universitye MS Tax Program Adjunct Instructor and Managing Director of Alvarez & Marsal Taxand (A&M). A&M's experts, who will serve as panelists, currenlty preside over some of the nation's most notable bankruptcies, including Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Washington Mutual, and the Tribune Company, among others. Joining our panelists to provide an insider's perspective will be Darryl R. Steinberg, Managing Director and Senior Tax Counsel to Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

Alvarez & Marsal has more that 1,400 professionals in offices across the globe. Specific to tax, Alvarez & Marsal Taxand has offices in 10 cities, with 40 Managing Directors and more than 200 tax presonnel. Alvarez & Marsal Taxand is part of the Taxand Global network of affiliate tax services firms that together have more than 2,000 professionals in nearly 50 countries. To learn more about the firm please visit www.alvarezandmarsal.com.
5/13/09Tax Executives Institute (San Francisco) Mixer
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
5PM - 8PM
Zebulon Restaurant & Bar
83 Natoma
San Francisco, CA 94105
5/15/08San Francisco Technical Tax Expert Lecture Series
FAS 109 & FIN 48

Presented by:
Earl R. Thomas is a nationally recognized state and local tax consultant and educator. He focuses his practice on business taxes imposed by state and local governments. Thomas' sales and use tax expertise includes all areas of multi-state sales and use taxation including transaction consulting. He has over 25 years of experience, primarily in Big 4 public accounting firms.

James Goeller is a tax partner with Perry-Smith LLP in San Francisco, where he heads the Financial Institutions tax practice that audits and provides tax services to over 70 banks and has personal responsibility for supervising tax services to approximately 30 community banks ranging from community banks to super regional institutions. His experience includes work on tax compliance and consulting; estate planning and mergers and acquisitions.
eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
11/15/07Tax 40th Anniversary Dinner

On this very special occasion, we will look back at our beginnings, recognize our founding leaders and faculty, thank our long-time professors, celebrate our graduates' successes, thank our supporters, encourage our 2007 students, recognize our program's strengths as they are today, and aspire to our promising future. Please join us to toast our school on Thursday, Nov. 15!

Location: Carnelian Room, 555 California Street, 52nd Floor, San Francisco, CA

Time: 5:30-9 pm
9/20/07Tax Career Fair
3-5 pm (3-4 pm MS Tax Only)
Room 5310 (Fifth Floor Auditorium)
536 Mission Street, San Francisco
9/18/07San Francisco Tax Expert Lecture Series
Pension Protection Act of 2006
Presented by:
Edward Frueh
12/12/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Stock Options Backdating: Update

Presented by:
Michael Vinson, Assistant Professor, Golden Gate University
7/25-7/27/07Day Tax Orientation
9-5 pm
Room 5310 (Fifth Floor Auditorium)
9/22/06Tax Career Fair

This year's annual career fair hosted by the School of Taxation was yet another great success with 34 firms from private and public industries both large and small, representing the entire Bay Area. Thank you to all the firms who participated and to the many students who attended.

»2006 List of Participating Firms
9/12/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Hedge Funds and Taxation of Investments

Presented by:
Seth Blackman, Paul Kangail and Navin Sethi, Rothstein Kass
5/16/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
FIRPTA Implications to Foreign Investors in US Real Estate

Presented by:
Brian Rowbotham, Rowbotham & Company LLP
eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
1/10/06San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Payroll Tax Implications to LLC and S Corporations

Presented by:
David Hardesty, Markle Stuckey Hardesty & Bott
eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
12/13/2005San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Hot Topics in Section 1031 Exchanges

Presented by:
Lou Weller, Deloitte & Touche LLP eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
11/17/2005San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Tax Enforcement - Current Developments in
Federal and California Audit Priorities and
Defensive Tools and Techniques

Featured panelists:
Charles Rettig, Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, PC
Steve Sims, California Franchise Tax Board and
Sheryl Stokes, IRS territory manager eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
11/4/2005Mock Interview Luncheon

Day Tax Students Luncheon with Various
Firms in the Field of Taxation

Friday, November 4, 2005
10/31/2005How to do Your Best in an Interview

Presented by:
Gerald Barbo & Frederic Sroka, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Monday, October 31, 2005
10/28/2005San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Ethics in Taxation: A Historical Overview

Featured panelists:
Frederic Sroka, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and
Joseph Walsh, Professor, School of Taxation eligible for 1 hour CPE/MCLE
10/18/2005Selling the Image

Presented by:Jane Baczynski, Novogradac & Company LLP
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
10/6/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Diamond is Not Forever — The New Service Partner Regulations

Featured panelist:
Daniel Raiskin, Raiskin & Revitz
9/16/05This year's annual career fair hosted by the School of Taxation was an enormous success with 31 firms from private and public industries both large and small, representing the entire Bay Area. Thank you to all the firms who participated and to the many students who attended.

» 2005 List of Participating Firms
9/8/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Family Limited Partnerships and Valuation Issues

Featured panelists:
John Hartog, tax attorney and a member of California Trust & Estate Counselors (CALTEC) and
Mark Vorsatz, CPA and tax attorney, founding member and CEO of Wealth and Tax Advisory Services
5/20/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation and New 401(k) Developments

Featured panelists:
Tonie L. Bitseff, Robert K. Buchanan Jr., Alison E. Wright, Amiram J. Givon, Michael Sladky, Edward A. Frueh
2/02/05San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Tax Shelters: Their Impact on Our Society, Economy and the Tax Profession

Presented by:
Larry Langdon, partner and director or Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLPs Global Tax Practice and former senior IRS official

Larry Langdon is a former IRS commissioner of the large and mid-size business division and former vice president, Taxes at Hewlett Packard. Langdon is currently partner and director of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLPs Global Tax Practice. Langdon will discuss how tax shelters impact us today.
12/15/04Seattle Technical Expert Lecture:
Analysis of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Featured panelists:
David Coffman at Coffman Legal, PLLC; Paul Loveridge, Managing Member at Blume, Loveridge & Co., PLLC, CPAs; Gregory R. Roer, Shareholder at Roer & Co., Inc., P.S., CPAs; John J. White, Jr., Partner at Livengood, Fitzgerald & Alskog, PLLC

Chaired by Professor Joseph Walsh, Golden Gate University School of Taxation

» Seattle informational flyer
12/11/04Los Angeles Technical Expert Lecture:
Analysis of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Featured panelists:
William K. Norman, Esq. of Ord & Norman; Charles P. Rettig, Esq. of Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C.; Stanley R. Smiley, Esq. of Financial Network Investment Corporation

Chaired by Dean Mary Canning, Golden Gate University School of Taxation

» Los Angeles informational flyer
12/9/04San Francisco Technical Expert Lecture:
Analysis of the Jobs Creation Act of 2004

Featured panelists:
John Brogan, Partner at Stonefield Josephson; Walter Kolligs, Principal at Ernst & Young LLP; Jim Tod, Senior Tax Manager at Deloitte; Jim Henderson, Associate Professor Golden Gate University School of Taxation

Chaired by Professor Joseph Walsh, Golden Gate University School of Taxation

» San Francisco informational flyer
10/28/04The fourth in a series of technical expert lectures:
Partnership Updates
Presented by Daniel Raiskin and Belan Wagner
Chaired by GGU School of Taxation Professor Joe Walsh

Daniel Raiskin's presentation:
* New IRS ruling addresses small partnerships
* New proposed regulations on partnership basis rules
* New regulations for partnership basis adjustments
* New revenue ruling shocks the experts
* Partnership provisions in the 2004 Tax Act

Joe Walsh's presentation:
* Seminar Outline
* Partnership Tax Update
9/17/04Tax Career Fair:
The 2004 annual career fair hosted by the School of Taxation was a huge success with 24 firms, both large and small, representing the entire Bay Area. Thank you to all the firms who participated and to the many students who attended.

» 2004 List of Participating Firms
9/16/04The third in a series of technical expert lectures:
Recent Developments in Family Limited Partnership Litigation
Presented by tax experts Kyle Martin and Joseph Stemach

» September 16 Informational Flyer

Kyle Martin's presentation:
* FLP Cases
* Estates Unit in Cincinnati 866-699-4083
Estates Unit handles extension questions as well as billing and refund issues. They cannot handle legal or other tax issues.

Joe Stemach's presentation:
* Estate and Gift Tax Audit Issues as Viewed by a Former Estate & Gift Tax Attorney
2/25/04The second in a series of technical expert lectures:
California Taxation Updates

» California Taxation Updates
» PowerPoint Slides (pdf)
1/29/04The first in a series of technical expert lectures:
Pass Through Entities Updates

» Update: Pass-through Entities

PowerPoint slides:
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