36th Annual
Accounting Lecture Series
John Houston
"Choice of Business Entity: Moving into Unchartered Water"
Thursday, November 12, 2009
11:40am - 1:00pm
Chattanooga Convention Center
One Carter Plaza
Chattanooga, TN
About the Speaker
John D. Houston, CPA, is founder of John D. Houston, CPA, a Chattanooga CPA firm. He has more than 30 years of public accounting experience in the Chattanooga area, including more than 12 years of service with two national accounting firms.
Houston’s tax consulting and CPA practice provides tax compliance and consulting services to a diverse business clientele including companies in the business services, wholesale, retail and real estate business segments. He also provides individual and fiduciary tax services for business executives, professionals, investors, self-employed individuals, trusts and estates. His areas of tax specialization include income and estate tax compliance services and tax consultation, consultation on choice of business entity, consultation on business merger and acquisition transactions, purchases and sales of business assets and representation before the Internal Revenue Service.
Houston is a frequent speaker on various tax topics with an emphasis on recent federal income tax developments and tax legislation. He is active in TSCPA and currently serves on the TSCPA Federal Taxation Committee. He is a former TSCPA Chattanooga Chapter President and TSCPA Board of Directors representative. Houston has previously served as board chairman for the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Chapter of the American Red Cross and is a past president of The Estate Planning Council of Chattanooga.
Houston is a 1977 highest honors graduate of the College of Business Administration at The University of Tennessee, where he majored in accounting and management science.
Purpose of Series
To bring to the College and to the community outstanding individuals
in the areas of accounting and auditing and at the same time provide a
basis for the enrichment of and mutual cooperation between participating
groups.
Parking
Parking is available in the garage adjacent to the Chattanooga Trade and Convention
Center.
CPE Credit
Those attending the technical program are eligible for one hour CPE credit.
Co-sponsored by the following:
American Society of Women Accountants
Association of Government Accountants
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Beta Alpha Psi
CFA Society of Chattanooga
Financial Executives International
Institute of Internal Auditors
Institute of Management Accountants
Tennessee Association of Accountants
Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants
UTC’s Department of Accounting
Registration
Each sponsoring organization will follow its own monthly registration procedures.
Look in the mail for the monthly newsletter of the accounting and auditing
organizations of which you are a member for the lecture series registration
information.
Register for the lecture with ONE sponsor. All other organizations of which you are a member will be given credit for your attendance. College of Business alumni and friends who are not members of the cosponsoring groups are welcome to attend the Accounting Lecture Series luncheon. To register for the luncheon, please send a $25 check to the following address by 11/1/2009:
UTC College of Business
External Affairs, Dept 6056
Attn: Accounting Lecture Series
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598
Please include your phone number on the check so that we may contact you if necessary. Please make checks payable to UTC Accounting Lecture Series.
Attendance
Approximately 250 accountants and business executives attend the Accounting
Lecture each year.
| Past Speakers | |
| '74-75 James Don Edwards '75-76 Robert K. Mautz '76-77 C. Westbrook Murphy '77-78 Arthur Wyatt '78-79 Robert T. Atwood '79-80 Dan M.Guy '80-81 Joel M. Forster '81-82 Frederick Zukerman '82-83 Allan Kramer '83-84 Harold Langenderfer '84-85 John C. Fletcher '85-86 Donald C. Jensen '86-87 Robert L. Shultis '87-88 John J. Willingham '88-89 Russell E. Palmer '89-90 Regina E. Herzlinger '90-91 Victor H. Brown '91-92 Dora R. Herring |
'92-93 D. Gerald Searfoss '93-94 Orville W. Mills, Jr. '94-95 David L. Buchholz '95-96 Barry L. Melancon '96-97 Susan M. Phillips '97-98 Tom Hough '98-99 Dennis R. Beresford '99-00 William W. Holder '00-01 Tom Freeman '01-02 James J. Leisenring '02-03 Floyd Norris '03-04 Walter Schuetze '04-05 G. Michael Crooch '05-06 Scott Taub '06-07 William Acuff '07-08 Katherine Schipper '08-09 Charles E. Landes '09-10 John Houston |
