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Live Webinar

The New Tax Form 990-Part 2: Drilldown

Thursday, January 29, 2009
2-3:30 p.m. (EDT)
In collaboration with the AAM Museum Management Committee (MMC), AAM Information Center and LearningTimes

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"I was surprised by the smooth transitions between the panelists’ discussion, the facilitator, and the slide presentations. I hope to attend another webinar because of this one." –participant, Tax Form 990 webinar

Description   How Will I Benefit?   Who Should Attend   Presenters   Register   Fellowships   FAQs   Webinar Forum   Additional Resources      

Description
Join tax specialist Marc Azar, partner at Smith Howard, a museum CFO and a museum director in this timely 90-minute webinar focused specifically on the new Tax Form 990 core form and schedules that are now due for tax year 2008. This webinar will address questions/concerns that many institutions have or will face with the new return. Gain the detailed 990 information you need to tackle expanded reporting requirements and to favorably position your institution with donors and charity watchdog groups. This program is designed as a complement to the July 2008 AAM webinar, The New Tax Form 990, Part 1: Why You Should Care, but is important and valuable information on its own.   

How Will I Benefit?
After participating in the New Tax Form 990, Part 2: Drilldown webinar, you’ll be better able to:        

  • Address and respond to specific changes in the Tax Form 990 core form and related schedules
  • Guide decision-making on institutional recordkeeping
  • Identify new reporting requirements on organizational policies
  • Support cross-functional decision-making that favorably positions the museum with donors and charity watchdog groups

Who Should Attend

  • Museum trustees
  • Directors
  • Deputy directors/COOs
  • CFOs, finance, administration and accounting staff 
  • Lawyers who advise museums
  • Registrars, collections managers and other key staff involved in recordkeeping and the assimilation of required information

Presenters
Clickhere for more information on presenters.

  • Marc Azar, Partner, Smith Howard, PC
  • Betty Brewer, President & CEO, Minnetrista
  • Casey Steadman, CFO, Atlanta History Center
  • Jonathan Finkelstein, Executive Producer, LearningTimes

Registration
$89 AAM Member
$189 Non-member
Not an AAM member yet? Join today and save!

Choose to learn from your desk or build community (and lower the cost per person) by inviting a group of co-workers to learn with you (e.g., around a computer monitor in an office or in a conference room setting). Hosting a webinar is also a great way to connect with colleagues from other institutions in your area! Please note: beyond a group experience, you will not be able to share your username and password with multiple people for simultaneous use.

Register now online or download the registration form and fax it to AAM Professional Education at (202) 289-6578. Or mail it with full payment to AAM Professional Education, 1575 Eye St. N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005-1105. Note: Registration closes on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 5 p.m. (EDT). No refunds will be given once registration has been processed.

Registration includes:

  • Access to the live webinar
  • On-demand access to the recorded webinar for 6 months
  • Access to the webinar forum and resources, including the webinar PowerPoint presentation

You may view the webinar using your unique login and password.

Click here for more information on the July 2008 recorded webinar, The New Tax Form 990: Why You Should Care

Fellowships
The AAM Small Museum Administrators Committee (SMAC-AAM) and the AAM Museum Management committee are pleased to offer fellowships to qualified individuals currently employed as a full-time paid or unpaid staff members for the webinar, The New Tax Form 990, Part 2: Drilldown on January 29, 2009. Deadline for fellowship applications is Friday January 9, 2009.
Click here to download the fellowship application form.

FAQs

Click here
to find out how this webinar works.

Webinar Forum Online
The webinar learning experience will be extended using the 990 Forum on the AAM website, exclusively for registrants and presenters. The forum will serve as an information and entry portal for webinar participants. Each participant will receive a login and password to access the forum.

The forum is where AAM will post all handouts and other resources in advance of the webinar, so that registered attendees will be able to download the materials and have them on hand during the live program.

Reminder: The forum will require a unique login and password that will only allow the login to be used in a single instance. You will not be able to share the username and password with multiple people for simultaneous use.

Additional Resources


 

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