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Lease Accounting: Private Companies on the Clock After Delay
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic added another element of business disruption for organizations to manage while the effective dates to comply for FASB's new lease accounting standards were quickly approaching. Following a pandemic-related delay, the new standard takes effect for entities within the "all other entities" category for fiscal years starting after Dec. 15, 2021, and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after Dec.
Read MoreBusiness Meal Deductions after the TCJA
The legislation known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), P.L. 115-97, eliminated the general deduction of business entertainment expenses under Sec. 274(a). The TCJA mostly left intact, however, the deductibility of food and beverage expenses as a business expense (generally, at 50% of the expense amount). But because of a long-standing understanding and practice of treating business entertainment and meals as congruent, practitioners sought ...
Read MoreEase Staff’s Fears About Returning to the Office
Fifteen-person firm Goldglit & Company LLP went remote virtually overnight last March when New York City was among the first locations to be hard-hit by COVID-19. As the pandemic’s impact receded in the city, the firm decided to reopen its offices on June 1, 2020, and allow staff to choose between remote or in-office work, an arrangement that’s still in place. Despite the firm’s efforts to minimize staff’s anxieties, ...
Read MoreIRS Updates Car and Truck Depreciation Limits
The IRS issued its annual inflation-adjusted update of depreciation limitations for passenger automobiles (including passenger vans and trucks) placed in service in 2021 (Rev. Proc. 2021-31). The revenue procedure similarly updates income inclusion amounts by lessees of passenger automobiles with respect to vehicles with lease terms beginning in 2021. These limits are updated annually for inflation according to the automobile component of the ...
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NSAC Welcomes New President, David Antoni, for 2021-2022 Term
CENTERVILLE, OHIO, September 3, 2021—The National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives (NSAC) is excited to announce that David Antoni, CPA, Tax Managing Director at KPMG LLP, has been named President for the 2021-2022 term. Founded in 1936, the NSAC is a professional society comprised of approximately 1,500 individual members actively involved with the financial management and planning of cooperative business. The organization ...
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