Incorporating Financial Statement Information to Improve Forecasts of Corporate Taxable Income

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Green ◽  
Erin Henry ◽  
Sarah Parsons ◽  
George A. Plesko
Keyword(s):  
Financial Statement ◽  
Taxable Income

The Tax Elasticity of Financial Statement Income: Implications for Current Reform Proposals

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1047-1064
Author(s):  
Dhammika Dharmapala
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Welfare Analysis ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Deadweight Loss ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Taxable Income ◽  
Relevant Evidence ◽  
Elasticity Of Taxable Income ◽  
Current Reform

Current reform proposals in international and corporate tax (most notably the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Global Anti-Base Erosion proposal) envisage taxing financial statement income. This paper develops a conceptual framework, based on the literature on the elasticity of taxable income (ETI), for the welfare analysis of such proposals and discusses the available evidence on the tax elasticity of financial statement income. The central conclusion is that the most relevant evidence suggests a large responsiveness of financial statement income to taxes (and, hence, albeit with significant limitations and caveats, arguably a large deadweight loss). The paper also highlights the need for more evidence on this question.

Taxing Book Profits: New Proposals and 40 Years of Critiques

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1025-1046
Author(s):  
Mindy Herzfeld
Keyword(s):  
Financial Statement ◽  
Taxable Income ◽  
Corporate Profits

This paper considers recent domestic and international proposals to use financial statement earnings as the basis for imposing additional or minimum taxes on corporate income and to reallocate corporate profits among jurisdictions. It reviews prior research undertaken in the context of previous proposals to partially substitute financial accounts for taxable income and considers how valid critiques of prior proposals are with respect to current initiatives. It concludes by noting that the concerns raised about earlier proposals have neither been fully considered nor addressed in the recent initiatives.

A Case Integrating Financial and Tax Accounting Using the Balance Sheet Approach to Account for Income Taxes

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa P. Larson ◽  
Troy K. Lewis ◽  
Brian C. Spilker
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Taxable Income ◽  
Accounting For Income Taxes ◽  
Advanced Version

ABSTRACT This case guides students through the process of reconciling financial (book) income to its taxable income, calculating the tax provision, preparing the income tax footnote disclosure, and completing Form 1120, Schedule M-1 for a fictitious publicly traded client. In the case, students are presented with the company's financial statements, including supporting schedules, and a tax basis balance sheet. Students are asked to calculate the tax provision and construct the income tax footnote as a pre-class assignment. In class, students debrief the tax provision calculation and income tax footnote and use information contained in the income tax footnote to reconcile the company's book to taxable income. Students completing this case should be able to (1) interpret the differences between a book basis balance sheet and a tax basis balance sheet, (2) create the income tax footnote disclosure using the ASC 740 balance sheet approach to accounting for income taxes, and (3) use information in the financial statement footnote and related disclosures to determine a company's book-tax differences and reconcile its book to taxable income. This case is designed for an intermediate financial accounting or tax course but an advanced version of the case could be used in a graduate financial accounting or graduate tax course.

scholarly journals What Turns the Taxman on? Tax Aggressiveness, Financial Statement Audits, and Tax Return Adjustments in Small Private Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050011
Author(s):  
Hannu Ojala ◽  
Juha Kinnunen ◽  
Lasse Niemi ◽  
Pontus Troberg ◽  
Jill Collis
Keyword(s):  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Tax Administration ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Tax Aggressiveness ◽  
Taxable Income ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Empirical Tests

This study examines the effect of tax aggressiveness and voluntary audit of financial statements on the likelihood of tax adjustments in small private companies. We provide evidence that (a) tax aggressiveness increases the likelihood of the tax authority not accepting taxable income as reported, whereas (b) voluntary audit decreases it. To derive our hypotheses, we built a theoretical stochastic model explaining tax authority’s reactions to bias and noise in tax returns and how these two relate to tax aggressiveness and voluntary audit. In our empirical tests of the hypotheses, we used a large proprietary data set comprising internal records of the Finnish Tax Administration for the fiscal year 2010 combined with data on the taxable income reported by approximately 19,500 small, private companies. Our results show that while the findings on tax aggressiveness are significant when measured with the book-tax difference using proprietary tax return data from the Tax Administration, they are insignificant when based on the conventional tax aggressiveness measure of book-tax difference derived from publicly available financial statement data. Our paper contributes to the literature by being the first to document the effects of tax aggressiveness and voluntary audit on tax return adjustments of small private companies.

Pengaruh Faktor Demografi Dan Iklim Organisasi Terhadap Niat Whistleblowing Internal

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Priyastiwi Priyastiwi
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Financial Statement Fraud ◽  
Internal Whistleblowing ◽  
Collection Methods

This study aimed to examine the effect of demographic factors and organizational climate on the intention of internal whistleblowing. The sample was an accountant who had worked as an auditor. Data collection methods using questionnaires with financial statement fraud case scenarios. This research use ANOVA data analysis method to examine demographic factors include age, gender, and experience, as well as organizational climate on the intention of internal whistleblowing. The results showed only the experience of demographic factors that influence internal whistleblowing. Besides internal whistlelowing also influenced by organizational climate in the company.Keyword: Demographics, Organizational Climate, Whistleblowing

Comprehensive Income: which potential effects on firms' performance evaluation and users' decision process?

2016 ◽  
pp. 55-94
Author(s):  
Pier Luigi Marchini ◽  
Carlotta D'Este
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Decision Process ◽  
Financial Analysts ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Comprehensive Income ◽  
Other Comprehensive Income ◽  
Gains And Losses ◽  
The Impact

The reporting of comprehensive income is becoming increasingly important. After the introduction of Other Comprehensive Income (OCI) reporting, as required by the 2007 IAS 1-revised, the IASB is currently seeking inputs from investors on the usefulness of unrealized gains and losses and on the role of comprehensive income. This circumstance is of particular relevance in code law countries, as local pre-IFRS accounting models influence financial statement preparers and users. This study aims at investigating the role played by unrealized gains and losses reporting on users' decision process, by examining the impact of OCI on the Italian listed companies RoE ratio and by surveying a sample of financial analysts, also content analysing their formal reports. The results show that the reporting of comprehensive income does not affect the financial statement users' decision process, although it statistically affects Italian listed entities' performance.

Telaahan Penerapan Sistem Informasi Akuntansi Berbasis Komputer Akuntansi (Menggunakan Microsoft Excel) dalam Penyajian Laporan Keuangan (Studi Kasus pada Rumah Sakit Islam Bogor)

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Syarief Gerald Prasetya
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Financial Statement ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Accounting Information System ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Processing Data

Hospital was established to serve the medical needs of the citizen. In addition to serving, hospitals also need to explore the benefits for the sustainability and the development of the hospital. To achieve financial reports have involved a large role. Accounting information system computer-based accounting will help serving the financial reports, so that more accurate and faster. Errors can be diminished.  Research object is selected by the author to conduct research is Bogor Rumah Sakit Islam. A hospital that is located on Jl. Perdana Raya. 22 Budi Agung, Jakarta Utara. This hospital was established on May 12, 1991. The location is strategic as it is in the center of Bogor. In doing activity, accounting information system based on computerized accounting still not yet common use. Computer already exist but support application to create an accurate and fast financial statement does not exist. So much weaknesses if we still using manual method. Like slowly processing data, still using much worker and much step while processing. The information result is still contained high mistake. To solve all problems above we need accounting software as tool for accounting division. For that I try to apply computerized accounting using Microsoft Excel for helping creating financial statement. By doing observation and interview with related employee, this research can do well. Journalize transaction process by using Microsoft Excel is to make a column for each transaction such as Journal Voucher, General Ledger, Balance Sheet. After making a column, the next step is inputing achievement data to Journal Voucher. After inputing data, General Ledger and Balance Sheet can automatically fill up. By using computer, processing data is more faster, information result is more accurately, human resource is less needed. Related management can get information they need more faster, because amount recalculated every doing transaction.

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