The International Accounting Standards Board proposed amendments to its income tax standard to provide temporary relief from accounting for deferred taxes arising from the imminent implementation of ...

Accrual accounting, a system of accounting designed to account for sales and expenses in the period they were incurred, allows certain expenses, assets, and sales to be deferred to the next accounting ...

Learn the differences between deferred and prepaid expenses, their balance sheet impact, and how businesses record them in accounting.

When it comes to a company’s taxes, there are two important categories to understand: assets and liabilities. Tax liability is anything that a person or company owes taxes on, such as income or ...

A deferred tax asset is usually an item on a company's balance sheet that was created by the early payment or overpayment of taxes. They are financial assets that can be redeemed in the future to ...

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on Friday published for public comment an exposure draft, Deferred Tax: Recovery of Underlying Assets, that would amend one aspect of IAS 12, Income ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an exposure draft of two proposed accounting standards updates that would affect the accounting for income taxes for businesses. The updates pertain ...

This report is one of a series on the adjustments we make to convert GAAP data to economic earnings. Reported earnings don’t tell the whole story of a company’s profits. They are based on ...