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S Corporations and State Income Taxes

Cherry Bekaert

S corporations are corporations that elect to pass corporate income, losses, deductions and credits through to their shareholders for federal tax purposes. Shareholders of S corporations report the flow-through of income and losses on their personal tax returns and are assessed at their individual income tax rates.

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Financial vs Tax Accounting

SMBAccountant

Tax accounting applies to individuals, businesses, and corporations. Tax accountants must use the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to provide accurate tax returns. Financial accounting is a branch of accounting that involves a process of recording, summarizing, and reporting transactions from a business.

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What is a provision for income tax and how do you calculate it?

ThomsonReuters

What is a tax provision? Simply put, a tax provision is the estimated amount of income tax that a company is legally expected to pay to the IRS for the current year. A tax provision is just one type of provision that corporate finance departments set aside to cover a probable future expense.

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2024 GAAP Taxonomy Approved By SEC

CPA Practice

The 2024 GRT contains updates for accounting standards and other recommended improvements, including those required for Securities and Exchange Commission Release Nos.

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FASB Makes 2024 GAAP and SEC Taxonomies Available

CPA Practice

The 2024 GRT contains updates for accounting standards and other recommended improvements, including those required for Securities and Exchange Commission Release Nos.

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How to navigate accounting assumptions

ThomsonReuters

Therefore, when serving business clients, it is important that accounting professionals have the right framework to ensure that proper financial reporting procedures are in place to help with accounting assumptions. What are the main accounting assumptions?

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Tax Provision Services (ASC 740)

Cherry Bekaert

Our diverse team has experience serving small privately held businesses, large multinational privately held businesses and publicly traded businesses across a broad spectrum of industries, ranging from start-ups to billions in revenue reporting under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards.

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