Ronald C. Thiewes

Values

  • Confidential
  • Economical
  • Efficient
  • Final
  • Felxible
  • Impartal
  • Neutral
  • Responsive
  • Self-determined
  • Voluntary

Ronald Thiewes, CPA-CFF - Rule 17.

Closely-held enterprise restructuring.

Marital estate allocations.

Non-traded equity valuations.

Commercial and Corporate. 

Certified in Public Accounting and Financial Forensics, Lawyer

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION EXPERIENCE

  • $40 Million accounting-auditing standards issue.
  • Divisive restructure of professional services firm.
  • Multi-million compliance issues - agribusiness and commercial contracts.
  • Commercial-consumer issues.
  • MoSupCt Rule 17 Mediator -  Clay and Platte Counties, Western District Federal Court.
  • Missouri Bar OCDC’s Complaint Resolution Program mediator since Program inception.
  • American Arbitration Association - Large Complex Case and Commercial sections

TRAINING 

  • Certified Public Accountant [CPA, Missouri]; completed ABV training and experience requirements.
  • Certified in Financial Forensics [CFF]  by American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
  • Certified Divorce Financial Analyst [CDFA].
  • BA, in  Philosophy and Economics.  St. Mary’s College [Minnesota].
  • MBA-level Accounting and Finance, Rockhurst College.
  • JD, St. Louis University School of Law.
  • LL.M-Taxation. Washington University School of Law.

AFFILIATIONS 

  • Missouri Society [Professional Ethics Committee] and American Institute of CPA's
  • Past president, K.C. Chapter, Missouri Society of Tax Practitioners, and former Adjunct Professor, financial accounting and tax accounting, William Jewell College.
  • Missouri Bar, and admitted before U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Tax Court.
  • Clay County Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS - PRESENTATIONS 

  • Journal of the Missouri Bar

    "Federal Taxation of Dividend Distributions", 34 Jrnl Mo Bar 3, 1978. "Charitable Remainder Trusts", Jrnl Mo Bar 2, 1979, and 9 Taxation for Lawyers 1, 1980.   "Revenue Recognition Help in RCA v. USA", 33 The Tax Executive 3, 1981, and 31 Digest of Tax Articles 1, 1981. "Normalization Requirements of Public Utility Accounting and Its Ratemaking", 35 The Tax Executive 3, 1983.  "Your Reply to Contacts From Your Client's Auditor", 41 Jrnl Mo Bar 8, 1985.  "Practicing Law Through a Corporation", 42 Jrnl Mo Bar 4, 1986.  "Your Incorporated Practice Revisited", 43 Jrnl Mo Bar 1, 1987.  "Reconstruction of Taxable Income", 45 Jrnl Mo Bar 4, 1989.  "Omnibus Taxpayer Bill of Rights", 45 Jrnl Mo Bar 6, 1989. "Principles of Valuing Closely-held Business Interests", 48 Jrnl Mo Bar 437 , 1992.  “A Primer on Financial Statement Analysis”, 51 Jrnl Mo Bar 4, 1995. 

  • Missouri Bar Publications

    Co-editor, co-reviewer and Contributing Author for MoBar CLE Estate Planning and  Missouri Taxation Law and Practice, Editions and Updates: 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1995,2002 and 2009. 

  • Missouri Bar Conferences

    “Should I Form a professional Corporation?”, 1993 Judicial Conference. “Choice of Business Entities”, 2003 Solo-Small Firm Conference. “Federal Income Tax Issues in Family Law”, 2008 Family Law Conference. 

  • Clay County Bar CLE

    “Principles of Valuing Closely-held Businesses” Feb, 2004. “Implications of Financial Accounting Standard 150 To Shareholder Agreements”, Dec, 2005. Taxation of Divorce, Nov, 2006. 

  • Missouri Bar CLE

Moderator: “Ethics Program”, 2002.  Author - presenter: “Taking the Mystery Out of Financial Statements”, 2006, 2008 and 2010;   Tele-Conference “Taxation of Divorce”, October, 2007;   “Finances of Divorce” [St- KC, half days], 2008, 2009 and 2010.