The Business Tax Answer Book covers an encyclopedia of information -- everything a business owner or advisor needs to know about tax and how to interpret and apply the tax rules. The Business Tax Answer Book is an accessible, practical, plain-language and comprehensive reference source for tax information for accountants, attorneys, business owners, and other business advisors. Whether a business is just starting up or has been in existence for years, whether it is a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or limited liability company, the Answer Book provides, in simple, no-nonsense language, answers to the key questions. The 2009 Edition provides answers to such questions as - What are the tax advantages and disadvantages to operating a business as a corporation? - When can a business use the simple, cash method of accounting to report income and claim deductions? - When can a business owner deduct the cost of commuting? - Who can claim the new, generous, first-year depreciation allowance? - Which employee fringe benefits qualify for favorable payroll tax treatment? - What pitfalls should business owners avoid when borrowing money from their businesses? - What is the key tax benefit of S corporation status? - What is a medical savings account and how does it help small businesses reduce employee health care costs? In addition to the more than 800 answers to the key questions regarding business income and payroll tax liabilities, the Business Tax Answer Book provides time-saving tools to help the businesses implement the tax strategies and compliance guidelines discussed in the book. These include numerous practice pointers, real-world examples and a comprehensive tax calendar.
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This comprehensive handbook provides every forecasting formula and modeling technique you need to analyze your business operation, both as a whole and by segment. You'll be provided with proven techniques that help you evaluate proposals for profit potential, proven methods that improve the accuracy of your short- and long-term forecasting, analysis tools that help you better manage working capital, cash, and accounts receivable, plus much more. You also receive dozens of worked-out models and modeling techniques that simplify your most difficult business decisions, and are easy to adapt to any computer spreadsheet program.
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Terence M. Myers, J.D., is a graduate of Georgetown University and the National Law Center, George Washington University. He is former managing editor of the Tax and Professional Practice unit of Prentice Hall. He has more than 25 years of experience launching, writing, and editing tax and business publications. Dorinda D. DeScherer, J.D., is a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University and the University of Maryland School of Law. She was formerly associate managing editor for Prentice Hall Information Services where she had primary responsibility for special projects, including explanatory materials on new tax laws. Ms. DeScherer has more than 25 year of writing and editing experience for a wide range of tax and business publications.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent reference for practical financial analysis techniques,
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This review is from: HANDBOOK FINANCIAL ANALYSIS FORECASTING & MODELING (Paperback)
This book is useful for looking up not just formulas but valuation methodologies in a hurry. However most of the techniques, though illustrated well, do not go very deep. This book is probably good for beginners in finance. Experienced readers may be served better by other publications. All in all, I found this text useful as a quick and easy "boiled down" reference guide for models, formulas and valuation techniques.
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Frankly, I'm embarassed for the authors. I have the second edition, and it is rife with errors. It just illustrates what a PhD is worth these days. I held out hope that the enclosed CD would have a spreadsheet of value (as it implies in the text) but all that is included is the book in PDF format. Thanks guys, that's helpful! Your next book should be titled "How to lie on the cover about the contents".I just don't know at whom they are targeting this book. Too basic for anyone in finance with a semester of accounting under his/her belt, maybe it's for kids in high school in Junior Achievement? People running Kool Aide stands? I think we all know the market -- their students who are hosed into buying it. Click another link to get away from this book as fast as you can, so my suffering is for a purpose.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A a good book which needs to be updated,
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This review is from: HANDBOOK FINANCIAL ANALYSIS FORECASTING & MODELING (Paperback)
This is a good book which contains financial formulas and many examples of business analysis. The chapter on spreedsheets is badly outdated. This detracts from the book because business analysis is now all about spreadsheets. The short chapter on outdated financial programs detracts from the book. Their are other, better, books now available.To be fair, the book covers a very complete collect of business analysis precedures and still is a good reference.
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business income, employee fringe benefits, sole proprietorships, small business corporation, requested tax year, comparable participating employees, adjusted depreciable basis, reduced adjusted basis, qualified business use, tax year change, business bad debt deduction, first effective year, natural business year, small employer exception, cafeteria plan rules, cafeteria plan document, simplified resale method, cumulative withholding, rotable spare parts, current payroll period, short tax year, payroll tax purposes, required tax year, second tax year, designated local agency Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Business Tax Answer Book, Planning Point, United States, Social Security, Tax Court, Internal Revenue Code, Retirement Plans, Tax Accounting, New York, Internal Revenue Service, Owner-Corporation Transactions, Code Sec, Appeals Office, Los Angeles, North American, Puerto Rico, Acme Corp, Employer's Tax Guide, Regulations Section, Sub Corp, Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System, Yuba City, Gamma Corp, Asset Class, San Francisco Browse Sample Pages:
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