Best Tax Provision Software

When it comes to doing the complicated corporate tax provision, we have discovered in our surveys many corporate tax professionals are still using an in-house, homemade excel format. The problem is an in-house excel program will miss important information and calculations. What we learn from experts is the disproportionate amount of time tax professionals are spending on making sure the Excel spreadsheets are calculating correctly versus the real technical issues in an ASC 740 context.

For most companies, the facts change from year to year. For example, changes occur to accommodate new facts such as new entities, states or foreign jurisdictions, uncertain tax benefits or even new perms and temps. These changes require significant knowledge of the design and links within the excel spreadsheet model. Spreadsheet users are often required to make modifications to multiple tabs in the spreadsheet and ensure that they don’t break any formulas. This whole process introduces risk into the spreadsheet. For example, something that should be very simple like adding a new entity will require numerous changes to a spreadsheet model.
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Tax Webinar - Nick Frank
COURSE: ASC 740 Be Ready for Q1 – What You Need To Know
DATE: Friday, March 22, 2019
TIME: 11:00AM EST/10:00AM CT/9:00AM MT/8:00AM PSTQ1 is right around the corner. Be ready for it with an overview of the interim tax accounting rules and other important topics like the new GAAP lease accounting standard. Nick Frank is an internationally recognized expert on the corporate tax provision. Prior to founding Tax Prodigy, Nick was employed by a large multinational and a Big Four Firm. Given his responsibility for the tax provision, Nick found much of the tax software difficult to use and a challenge to understand. Nick had one goal in mind and this was to simplify the tax provision process and make it as easy as an Excel Sheet to understand. Learn why Fortune 1000 companies are saying Nick Frank is making the tax provision process easy for them.
Join This Tax Provision Webinar to learn how to simplify the tax provision!
Nick Frank- ASC 740 Tax Courses

Corporate tax professionals are invited to attend the four scheduled complimentary training classes on ASC 740. These include: ASC 740 – Intersection Series; ASC 740 The Basics; ASC 740 Stock Compensation And Sec 162m; and ASC 740 International Under The Tax Cuts And Jobs Act.

These courses are part of a series brought to you by Tax Prodigy/TaxConnections and are with our compliments. Nick Frank is a national leading instructor on the tax provision and makes simplifies the entire process for anyone responsible for the corporate tax provision. He is also CEO of Tax Prodigy and a Professor at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota on the tax provision.

You can easily register by going to TaxConnections newly updated Tax Events Calendar.

 

 

Stephen Day

“We’re done with the audit… EXCEPT For Tax!” How many times have you heard these words from your auditors? My guess is every year and every quarter since you were in a position to care about the income tax provision.

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Stephen Day

FREE WEBINAR: RESERVE YOUR SEAT IN THIS VALUABLE WEBINAR

The PCAOB is making sure your auditors continue to ratchet up the intensity of the audit process. Join the key members of Tax Prodigy in discussing the most challenging issues relating to the audit of the tax provision. We will provide an in depth discussion of the most common challenges encountered during the audit. More importantly we will discuss pragmatic approaches to overcoming those challenges or avoiding them altogether.

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Stephen Day

TaxConnections brings you two leading tax experts in tax provision webinar scheduled for November 4th, 2016. Presenters Stephen Day and Nick Frank will discuss what the tax auditors always challenge first… they will discuss the primary challenges on an audit of the tax provision and provide the best possible solutions. This webinar is free and provided by two of the most knowledgeable tax provision experts in the country. They will teach you how to get more control, more efficient and reduce risk on tax provision.

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Stephen Day

TaxConnections brings you two leading tax experts in tax provision webinar scheduled for November 4th, 2016. Presenters Stephen Day and Nick Frank will discuss what the tax auditors always challenge first… they will discuss the primary challenges on an audit of the tax provision and provide the best possible solutions. This webinar is free and provided by two of the most knowledgeable tax provision experts in the country. They will teach you how to get more control, more efficient and reduce risk on tax provision.

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Kat Jennings

TaxConnections brings you two leading tax experts in tax provision webinar scheduled for November 4th 2016. Accounting for income taxes is complicated and the stakes are high. Far too many companies still struggle with accurately completing the tax provision in a timely manner. Tax is still one of the leading sources of control deficiencies including financial restatements.

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Senior Director, Tax (Southern California)

The Senior Director, Tax will be responsible for directing and managing all tax compliance and tax reporting with international, federal, state and local authorities including quarterly and annual tax provision. The Senior Director, Tax will also be responsible for the following:

• Direct and manage the preparation and review of the worldwide income tax provision including the preparation of the ASC 740 calculations, current and deferred analysis, technical review of tax accounting positions (FIN48, 123R, FAS141R purchase accounting, valuation allowance analysis APB 23 Assertion), tax account reconciliations and return-to-provision reconciliation. Read More

Corporate Multinational Tax Departments

 

Gather in your conference rooms or at your desks to watch this presentation from Shamen Dugger at TaxConnections Internet Tax Summit on Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 8:00AM (PST).  Learn from this tax expert about Tax Provision (ASC 740/FAS 109).

Introducing Tax Expert:                      (See Video Below)
Shamen Dugger, McGladrey LLP, San Francisco and San Jose, CA

 

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On December 31, 2013, 57 provisions in the federal tax law expired. Many had expired before and been renewed. While there was discussion in the congressional tax committees since at least April 2014, as well as votes, no consensus was reached until early December. The House passed the bill – H.R. 5771, the Tax Increase Prevention Act, on December 3 by 378-46. On December 16, the Senate passed it by a vote of 76-16. On December 19, President Obama signed the bill. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the cost of H.R. 5771 for one year as about $81 billion, but only $42 billion for ten years (because some of the items, such as bonus depreciation involved timing of deductions).

The extension means, for example, that if a business purchased new equipment in the first 50 weeks of 2014 not expecting to be able to claim 50% bonus depreciation on it (because Read More

What does the change in majority party in the Senate for the 114th Congress mean for tax reform, and perhaps for any tax legislation?

An op ed in the Wall Street Journal on November 5, 2014 by Congressman Boehner and Senator McConnell, states that the Republican controlled Congress will address many challenges including “The insanely complex tax code that is driving American jobs overseas.”

What might that mean? A few possibilities:

Nothing. Complexity is not a bi-partisan issue. There is no contrary argument to the statement that our federal tax law is too complex. So, why hasn’t the complexity been Read More