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 ...

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 ...

A deferred tax liability arises when a company's real-world tax bill is lower than what its financial statements suggest it should be due to differences between tax accounting rules and standard ...

If you're an investor in Citigroup (NYSE: C)then you may have come across references to its deferred tax assets. These assets may seem esoteric, but they're easy to understand and are incredibly ...

A new standard FASB issued Friday is designed to improve the way deferred taxes are classified on organizations’ balance sheets. Accounting Standards Update No. 2015-17, Income Taxes (Topic 740): ...

A bank never wants to lose money, but there can be an upside to doing so if the loss creates a deferred tax asset, which allows a company to offset future income with previously unclaimed losses for ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA or the “Fund”) has modified the estimate of the Fund’s deferred tax liability based on information reported by the Master Limited ...

This report is one of a series on the adjustments we make to GAAP data so we can measure shareholder value accurately. This report focuses on an adjustment we make to our calculation ofeconomic book ...