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Death, Taxes and Insurance for Business Owners

Learn the ABC's of life insurance, how to use life insurance in estate planning for business owners

Created byTony Salgado, CPA, CA, CFP, CLU
IntermediateUpdated May 4, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleUnderstand the basic principles and types of life insurance.
  • check_circleUse life insurance effectively in estate planning for business owners.
  • check_circleIdentify tax advantages of life insurance within a corporation.
  • check_circleAdvise on structuring shareholder agreements using insurance strategies.
  • check_circleDetermine when annuities are appropriate and how they can benefit business owners.
  • check_circleIntegrate insurance products into broader business and financial planning.

About This Course

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to life insurance and its strategic uses for business owners. You'll start with the fundamentals—the ABCs of life insurance—and progress to advanced applications in estate planning, corporate tax efficiency, and business succession. Learn how life insurance can be a powerful tool not only for protection but also for wealth transfer and long-term planning within a business context.

Key topics include using life insurance in shareholder agreements, understanding the tax advantages of corporate-owned policies, and knowing when and how to use annuities to support retirement and estate strategies. Whether you're advising clients or planning for your own business, this course equips you with the insights to structure smart, tax-efficient, and future-ready solutions.

Course Content

1 activity • 1 videos • duration: 1h 26m

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Section 11 videos • 1.4 hours
  • videocamDeath, Taxes & Insurance for Business Owners
    Duration 86:55

Your Instructor

Tony Salgado, CPA, CA, CFP, CLU

Estate Planner

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Tony is a tax & estate accountant and insurance advisor working with family-owned businesses providing estate, insurance and succesion planning solutions and strategies. Tony will provide sophisticated estate & insurance planning alternatives with a focus in helping business owners identify issues and opportunities relating to business succession planning. This approach will help clients through the complexities of wealth transition and tax minimization strategies.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.6 out of 5
Student's Choice
409 reviews
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    Scott M.
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    Very useful and well presented.

  • IP
    Igor P.
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    Excellent course, and where is Part 2?

  • DD
    Daniel D.
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    The course brought up a few good thoughts and ways to explain things to my clients that I had not previously thought of or didn't know how to explain.

  • EC
    Edward C.
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    Excellent course. Very clear and informative.

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