Please join the Board for breakfast on November 11, 2004 at the International Market Square.  This month’s topic is Year-End 2004.  This includes such items as Year End Preparation, Legislative updates, Taxation of Fringe Benefits, Annual Changes, review the W-2 form and W-2 tie out procedures.

Speaker Karen Klein, CPP is currently the Payroll Tax Consultant for the U of M.  Among other duties, she tracks federal and state legislative developments impacting payroll operations, oversees Federal and State tax reporting compliance, assumes responsibility for University wide communications regarding matters of federal and state tax payroll policies and procedural changes, Foreign National tax issues and employment authorizations, and W-2/1042S year-end reporting.

Speaker Sharlene Smith, CPP is currently the Payroll Manager for GMAC/RFC.  She has held various other payroll positions for a total of over 25 years of payroll experience.  She has been a frequent speaker with the Northstar APA, and with other groups of which she has been a member.  Ms. Smith is a graduate of the University of Central Florida where she earned a BS degree in Elementary Education.  She obtained her CPP certification in 1995.

Speaker Kristin Fink, CPP, has over 11 years of payroll experience.  She is currently the HRIS Specialist for Payroll at GMAC-RFC.  GMAC-RFC is a capital finance company with 3800 employees in 42 different states.  She has been on the year end process team at GMAC-RFC for the last 4 years.  Prior to GMAC-RFC, she was a Payroll Specialist at Allina Health Systems.  Kristin has been a member of the Northstar Chapter APA for the past 3 years.  Kristin received a B.A. in Business Management from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.  She obtained her CPP certification in the fall of 2002