Tri-State in training: Merrill Lynch offers retirement planning workshop

RETIREMENT PLANNING: Merrill Lynch will conduct a free workshop on Social Security and Retirement Planning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at the Merrill Lynch office, at 1117 3rd Ave., Huntington.

Robert Jeffries, a public affairs specialist with the Social Security Administration, and Victoria Hoops, regional sales vice president of MetLife Investors, will be the guest speakers. The seminar will last approximately one hour, and light refreshments will be served. To reserve a seat, call Sharon McMillion at 304-522-9312 or 1-800-937-0238.

QUICKBOOKS WORKSHOP: The West Virginia Small Business Development Center at Marshall Community and Technical College will offer an Accounting with QuickBooks workshop from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, May 19 and 20, at 348 15th St., Huntington.

Roberta Weaver of Bagby and Weaver CPAs will conduct the workshop. Topics include measuring business profitability, tracking cost of goods sold, tracking payroll, creating budgets, using registers, recording loan payments, tracking and paying sales tax and using Quick Reports. This will be a hands-on class with computers. Participants will receive a workbook to take home.

Registration is required and the workshop fee is $149. To register, visit www.sbdcwv.org and click on Training and Workshop Calendar, or call Kathleen Thornton at (304) 399-1042. Payment may be made at the door.

If your organization has a seminar or training class you would like listed in this column, please send it to Jean Tarbett Hardiman. Reach her by e-mail at jeant@herald-dispatch.com, send faxes to 304-526-2857 or send mail to The Herald-Dispatch, P.O. Box 2017, Huntington, WV 25701.