Deferred Income Taxes: A Practical Approach 2024

Overview

Accounting for income taxes is now a complex set of standards with computational difficulties and confusion. Particularly concerning private companies. Durring this course we’ll take a practical approach to navigating the maze, simplify basic calculations, and clarify financial statements. Includes a review of the impact of the 2017 Tax Reform Act on calculations.

Highlights

• Sample Schedule M calculations
• Sample work papers for deferred tax computations
• Comprehensive two-year example and computations
• Review and analysis of recurring temporary differences
• Identification of the sources to compute "cumulative temporary differences"
• Sample workpapers for analysis of tax positions

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

CPAs, accountants and financial professionals.

Objectives

• Develop a practical approach for the application of the basic elements of income tax accounting under FASB codification 740
• We will dispel the myths surrounding deferred income taxes, and provide useful approaches and numerous computations
• Identify basic recurring transactions that result in book-tax differences for private companies, and how to accumulate the needed information to simplify the computations
• Recognize tax positions taken in tax returns and how those positions are to be evaluated for purposes of accruing the related tax benefits in the financial statements

Preparation

None