TEI sets education calendar.

TEI's Continuing Education Committee has announced the Institute's schedule of educational events for the next 18 months. The Institute will offer seminars on financial reporting, advanced state and local tax issues, consolidated returns, and international mergers and acquisitions, as well as its popular IRS Audits and Appeals Seminar and Senior Tax Executive Conference, according to Vincent Alicandri of the Institute's Toronto Chapter, who will serve as the committee's 2007-2008 chair. These programs will complement TEI's Annual and Midyear Conferences, its mainstay courses on federal, international and state and local taxes, and its Senior Tax Executives Conference. Mr. Alicandri added that the schedule will be supplemented with webconferences and telephone seminars on late-breaking topics.

"Dollar for dollar, and minute for minute, TEI's conferences, seminars, and courses cannot be beat," Mr. Alicandri stated. "Other providers offer comparable programs, but TEI's committees do it better and at significantly lower prices." Explaining that online registration for the programs will open as long as nine months in advance, he urged interested members to sign up early. "Already in 2007, we've had three programs sell out, and our two 2006 financial reporting seminars broke all attendance records."

Given the continuing importance of FIN 48 relating to uncertain tax positions and other financial reporting rules, TEI is already committed to repeating its Financial Reporting Seminars both later this year (in Chicago) and in 2008 (in Las Vegas). "These programs will be more than a rehash of FIN 48's technical rules," Mr. Alicandri promised. "They will focus on open questions and emerging best practices," Mr. Alicandri explained. He added that the seminars will also cover more than uncertain tax positions. "From 123R, relating to share-based compensation, and valuation allowances, to business combinations, the treatment of foreign operations, and interim reporting, the programs will be designed to equip today's tax executives with what they need." He added that the Institute is also planning on reprising the vendor show that prove popular at the Institute's two, oversubscribed 2006 programs.

For state and local tax practitioners, an advanced seminar will be held in New Orleans December 6-7, 2007, he said. Another state and local program will be scheduled for...