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QKA study guide
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Lessons
- Actual Contribution Percentage Test: Matchin
- Testing Standards: The 1.25 Test vs. 2.0 / 2
- Actual Deferral Percentage Test: Eligible Pa
- Permissive Disaggregation & Restructuring to
- Shifting Techniques: Moving Contributions Be
- Why ADP and ACP Testing Exists & Which Plans
- ASPPA Code Overview: Precepts 1 through 6
- Conflicts of Interest, Confidentiality & Wor
- Professional Discipline, ASPPA Disciplinary
- Applying the Plan's Compensation Definition:
- IRC §401 Annual Compensation Limit & Deemed
- IRC §414 Safe-Harbor vs. Custom Compensation
- IRC §415 Statutory Compensation Definitions:
- Calculating the Total Excess: Ratio Leveling
- Statutory Deadlines: 2.5-Month Rule, EACA 6-
- Corrective Distributions to HCEs: Refund Cal
- Alternative Corrections: QNECs, QMACs & Rech
- Switching Between Prior-Year and Current-Yea
- Amending Plan Eligibility Requirements & Exp
- Hours-of-Service Crediting vs. Elapsed-Time
- Plan Entry Dates, Dual Eligibility & Computa
- Statutory Age and Service Conditions Under I
- Voluntary After-Tax Contributions & Automati
- IRC §402 Annual Limits, Age-50 Catch-Up & SE
- Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals & Designated Roth
- Rollover Contributions Into the Plan: Eligib
- IRC §415 Annual Additions Limits, Excess Cor
- Age-Weighted Allocations, Cross-Testing / Ne
- Employer Matching Contributions: Fixed, Disc
- Discretionary Profit-Sharing: Pro-Rata Comp-
- Filing Deadlines, Form 5558 Extensions, EFAS
- Form 5500 Series: Form 5500, Form 5500-SF &
- Form 8955-SSA: Reporting Deferred Vested Par
- IQPA Independent Audit Threshold: SECURE 2.0
- Family Attribution Rules Under IRC §318 / §1
- Former HCEs, Short Plan Years & Non-Calendar
- IRC §414 Statutory Tests: 5% Owners & Compen
- Top-Paid 20% Group Election & Determination
- Distribution Tax Reporting: Form 1099-R Code
- Mandatory Cash-Out Limits & Automatic Rollov
- Required Minimum Distributions Under IRC §40
- Taxation of Distributions, 20% Mandatory Fed
- Average Benefit Percentage Test Mechanics &
- Mandatory Disaggregation, Permissive Aggrega
- The Average Benefits Test: Nondiscriminatory
- Otherwise Excludable Employees: When Disaggr
- IRC §410 Coverage Framework, Testing Group &
- Deemed-Pass Situations & Correcting a Failed
- Calculating Benefiting Participants & The Ra
- Testing Frequencies & Controlled Group Impac
- Electronic Delivery Safe Harbors & SECURE 2.
- ERISA Title I Disclosures: SPD, SMM & SAR Ti
- Fee Disclosures Under ERISA §404 & §408, Plu
- Which Service Providers Must Deliver Fee Dis
- Loan Defaults, Cure Periods, Deemed Distribu
- Loan Terms: 5-Year Amortization, Principal R
- IRC §72 Statutory Loan Limits — Free Study Guide 2026
- Distributable Events: Severance, Death, Disa
- Distribution Restrictions by Contribution So
- IRC §72 10% Early Distribution Penalty & Sta
- In-Service Withdrawals, Hardship Distributio
- QJSA and QPSA Survivor Annuity Rules, the DC
- Anti-Alienation, Qualified Domestic Relation
- IRC §401 Core Qualification Requirements & E
- Written Plan Documents, Pre-Approved vs. Ind
- Defined Contribution vs. Defined Benefit Fun
- Other DC Designs: ESOPs, SEPs, SIMPLE IRAs,
- Profit Sharing, Money Purchase & 401 Cash or
- Qualified Automatic Contribution Arrangement
- Safe Harbor Advantages, Disadvantages & the
- Safe Harbor Notice Rules, Mid-Year Elections
- Traditional Safe Harbor Formulas: 3% Nonelec
- Verifying Safe Harbor Contribution Complianc
- Breaks in Service, Re-Employment Rules & Ser
- Excludable Employee Classifications & Job Ca
- Service Across Employers: Predecessor Employ
- SECURE 2.0 Long-Term Part-Time Rules — Free Study Guide 2026
- Required and Permissive Aggregation Groups &
- Identifying Key Employees: Officers, 5% Owne
- Top-Heavy Minimum Contributions, Accelerated
- The 60% Top-Heavy Ratio: Determination Date,
- Forfeiture Determination, Timing, Allocation
- Mandatory Full-Vesting Events, Vesting Sched
- Statutory Vesting Schedules: 3-Year Cliff, 2
- Calculating Years of Vesting Service, Comput