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Webcast: Best Practices for Tax Income and Expense Recognition 2024

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ASCPA Live Online Webcast

Webcast, AZ 85008

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6.0 Credits

Member Price $190.00

Non-Member Price $255.00

Overview

Understand timing issues under Federal income tax law to maximize client benefits. Review historical antecedents, including US Supreme Court cases and Federal tax rules regarding the timing of income and expenditures. Learn how cash and accrual accounting methods increasingly mirror one another for Federal income tax purposes. Study underutilized planning opportunities to defer income or take advantage of the small business taxpayer exemption. Benefit from the hands-on approach to Code and Regulation sections, revenue procedures and court cases.

Highlights

  • Cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting, including history
  • Cash method limitations, including tax shelters per IRC Sec. 448(d)(3), 461(i)(3) and 1256(e)(3)
  • Cash method by small businesses, including Revenue Procedures 2001-10 and 2002-28 NAICS codes
  • Accrual of income and expenses, including history
  • Economic Performance and Recurring Item Exception, IRC Sec. 461(h)
  • Deferral of Certain Advance Payments (Revenue Procedure 2004-34)
  • Changes made to the above by the 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Tax practitioners, accountants and financial professionals.

Objectives

  • Identify and apply statutory provisions of the Internal Revenue Code regarding the timing of income and expenditures and policies underlying those rules
  • Determine fundamental principles regarding cash receipts and disbursement methods of accounting
  • Recognize fundamental principles of the accrual method of accounting
  • Determine how the cash and accrual methods of accounting for tax purposes have grown toward each other over time
  • Recognize tax timing planning opportunities and restrictions
  • Identify the rules governing the use of accounting periods and methods by various taxpayers

Non-Member Price $255.00

Member Price $190.00