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

Notice

This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor. Login instructions will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Login instructions will be emailed directly to you by California Education Foundation (CalCPA).