Fin 48 Answer Book, 2009 Edition


Book Description

FIN 48 Answer Book is designed to for practitioners who need quick and authoritative answers to questions concerning the implementation of FIN 48. This book uses simple straightforward language to provide guidance on consistent accounting practices and criteria for enterprises reporting tax benefits from uncertain tax positions. The question-and-answer format, with its breadth of coverage, effectively conveys the complex subject matter of implementing and applying FIN 48.




Financial Planning Answer Book (2009)


Book Description

Covering the five key areas of financial planning, this guide emphasizes its technical, tax, and regulatory aspects. The areas of discussion include investments, employee benefits and retirement plan assets, insurance, income tax and estate planning, and regulatory issues.




GAAP Guide Level A 2009


Book Description

Providing an analysis of authoritative GAAP literature contained in Level A of the GAAP hierarchy, this resource discusses each pronouncement in a comprehensive format that makes it easy to understand and apply.




GAAP Financial Statement Disclosures Manual 2008-2009


Book Description

The GAAP Guide Level A, in both the text and on the accompanying easy-to-use CD-ROM, analyzes authoritative GAAP literature contained in Level A of the GAAP hierarchy, established by Statement on Auditing Standards No. 69, which include FASB Statements and Interpretations, as well as APB Opinions and Accounting Research Bulletins. It is written in clear, comprehensible language. Each pronouncement is discussed in a comprehensive format that makes it easy to understand and apply. Practical illustrations and examples demonstrate and clarify specific accounting principles.




GAAP Guide Levels B, C, and D (2009)


Book Description

Contains cross references to companion publication: GAAP guide level A.




Charitable Giving Answer Book 2009


Book Description

Closely Held Businesses in Estate Planning provides exhaustive coverage of the gratuitous transfer tax system, inter vivos gifting strategies, valuations freezes, intra-family sales, buy-sell agreements, the marital deduction, planning strategies for retirement income distributions, and valuation of closely held business interests. This easy-to-use reference provides complete and comprehensive coverage of the strategies and practices for protecting a closely held business while limiting the tax burden on the estate's owner.




Revenue Recognition Guide 2009


Book Description

Revenue is the top line in the income statement and one of the most important figures to both preparers and users of financial statements. It is also one of the most difficult numbers in the financial statements to get right. Revenue Recognition Guide is a comprehensive reference manual covering the key concepts and issues that arise in determining when and how to recognize revenue. It covers the litany of existing authoritative literature related to revenue recognition and clarifies those revenue recognition concepts that are vague.




Cch Accounting for Income Taxes, 2009 Edition


Book Description

CCH Accounting for Income Taxes provides guidance on the application of FASB Statement No. 109, Accounting for Income Taxes, as amended. It also provides interpretations of the various amendments to Statement 109 since 1992, including the guidance contained in FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes an Interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109, which was issued by the FASB in July of 2006.




Transfer Pricing Developments around the World 2024


Book Description

Intensive work on transfer pricing, one of the most relevant and challenging topics in the international tax environment, continues to increase worldwide at every level of government and international policymakers, with a far-reaching impact on countries’ legislations, administrative guidelines, and jurisprudence. This book presents an in-depth, issue-by-issue analysis of the current state of developments, along with suggestions for future solutions to the problems raised. Emerging from the research conducted by the WU Transfer Pricing Center at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), this book offers seven topic-based chapters prepared by international experts on transfer pricing. Greatly helping to define recent transfer pricing issues around the world, it encompasses the following topics: Global Transfer Pricing Developments; Transfer Pricing and Amount B; Transfer Pricing and BEFIT; The EC’s Transfer Pricing Directive Proposal; Transfer Pricing and Profit Attribution to New-Age Permanent Establishments; Transfer Pricing and ESG; and Transfer Pricing and New Technologies. The intense work of international organizations, such as the OECD, the UN, and the EU, is thoroughly analysed in this book. The detailed analysis will be of immeasurable value to the various players, including international organizations, the business community and advisory firms, corporate CEOs and CFOs, government officials and tax lawyers, in-house counsel, and interested academics in facilitating efficient dialogue and a coordinated approach to transfer pricing in the future.




Regulation of Securities: SEC Answer Book, 5th Edition


Book Description

Regulation of Securities: SEC Answer Book, Fifth Edition is your complete guide to understanding and complying with the day-to-day requirements of the federal securities laws that affect all public companies. Using a question-and-answer format similar to that which the SEC has embraced, this valuable desk reference provides concise, understandable answers to the most frequently asked compliance questions, and ready access to key statutes, regulations, and court decisions. Designed for both beginners and seasoned professionals, the volume contains approximately 1,400 pages organized in 23 self-contained chapters. Each chapter covers the basics before moving into the nuanced details, meeting the needs of those who seek a general understanding of a topic as well as those grappling directly with critical issues. Twice-yearly supplements keep the book current in this rapidly evolving field. Whether you are a lawyer, accountant, corporate executive, director or investor, you'll be able to quickly find concise answers to essential questions about the Dodd-Frank Act, Exchange Act registration and reporting, executive compensation disclosure, derivatives disclosure, management's discussion and analysis, audit committee responsibilities, Sarbanes-Oxley, electronic filing, interactive financial data, tender offers, proxy solicitations, insider trading, going private transactions, shareholders' rights, SEC investigations, criminal enforcement, securities class actions, and much more!