The IRS has issued new guidance on automatic accounting method changes. Revenue Procedure 2009-39 provides certain additions, modifications and clarifications to Revenue Procedures 2008-52 and 97-27 ...

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The American Institute of CPAs has recommended to the IRS that taxpayers making an accounting method change for mischaracterized research and experimental expenditures under Code Section 174 should ...

The IRS allows you to calculate your tax bill using one of two tax accounting methods. The more common of the two methods for individual taxpayers is the cash method. However, most businesses prepare ...

In new Rev. Proc. 2015-20, the IRS permits a “small business taxpayer” to use a simplified procedure to change its method of accounting under the final tangible property regulations for tax years ...

IRC section 446(e) requires that a taxpayer secure IRS consent to change its method of accounting. Treasury regulations section 1.446-1(e)(2)(i) specifies that a taxpayer do this before computing its ...

The American Institute of CPAs has sent a set of recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service about accounting methods for small-business taxpayers and how to determine whether a taxpayer qualifies ...

Accrual accounting is one of the primary accounting methods and is based on the matching principle, which dictates that revenues and their associated expenses be recorded in the same accounting period ...

When compared to cash accounting, the accrual method provides a more accurate picture of the economic condition of a construction project. In the cash method, you book revenue when you receive it and ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to allow companies to use a certain accounting method for a broader range of tax-credit investments, enabling them to record similar spending in a ...

Many contractors can build better cash flow using accounting options that until passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) were unavailable to them. Nevertheless, there remains a surprising number of ...

Method Transforms Service Contract/Extended Warranty Accounting for $250 Billion+ Global Industry; Projected To Unlock ...