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30 Second Ideas
- Taxpayers Beware: IRS Impostor Faxes
- You’ve Got Two More Days to File Your Tax Return
- 2012 Standard Mileage Rates
Accounting Updates
- New Consolidation Standards — Who Put the VIE in Related-Party Lease Arrangements?
- Proposed Changes to Revenue Recognition Standards — Only One Proud Standard Rather than Dozens
- Proposed Changes to Lease Accounting Standards — The Classic Cookie-Cutter Standard Is Likely to Be Retired
Alerts
- Defined Value Clause Win for Taxpayer — Wandry v. Commissioner
- Optimize iCOLI Policies to Benefit Your Company
- Beware: New Form 8938 - Statement of Foreign Financial Assets
Articles
- Middle-Market Manufacturing M&A Quarterly Review — Manufacturing-Sector Update, May 2012
- Middle-Market Manufacturing M&A Quarterly Review — Multiples, May 2012
- Industry Snapshot: Metal Fabrication
Business Surveys
- Survey of Chicago Area Business Leaders, September 2009
- Survey of Advisors to Family-Owned Businesses
- Survey of Chicago Area Business Leaders, February 2009
Construction Edge
- Managing Indirect Costs Calls for a Keen Eye ... and a Plan
- An Escalation Clause Can Help Curtail Materials Cost Woes
- Four Ways Dishonest Employees Can Steal Your Money
Healthcare Edge
- Specialty Snapshot: Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
- Cash Balance Plans For Professional Practices
- Using Your iPad for Business: Greater Portability, Flexibility, and Organization. Fewer Trees.
Insurance Edge
- Preparing Your P & C Insurance Company for an IRS Audit Before It Comes
- Using Your iPad for Business: Greater Portability, Flexibility, and Organization. Fewer Trees.
- Optimize iCOLI Policies to Benefit Your Company
Legal Talent
- Varying Rates for Contract Attorneys: Caveat Emptor!
- Top 10 Reasons to Hire Temporary Help in a Down Economy
- Five Organizational Tips for Staffing a Document Review Project
Manufacturing Edge
- Using Your iPad for Business: Greater Portability, Flexibility, and Organization. Fewer Trees.
- A Year-End Planning Checklist for Every Manufacturing Company and Distributor
- Goodwill Impairment Testing — Simplification May Be Possible
Market Update
- Middle-Market Manufacturing M&A Quarterly Review — Manufacturing-Sector Update, May 2012
- Middle-Market Manufacturing M&A Quarterly Review — Multiples, May 2012
- Industry Snapshot: Metal Fabrication
Not-for-Profit Edge
- Benefits of Conducting a Fraud Risk Assessment — Part Three
- Data Security Breach — This Is Not Just for Dot.com Companies
- New Developments: OMB A-133 Audits and Fair Value Measurements
Quick Links & Good Ideas
- Quick Links and Good Ideas, January 2011
- Quick Links and Good Ideas, November 2010
- Quick Links and Good Ideas, September 2010
Strategy Insights Blog
- Measuring the Success of Your Strategy, Starts with Asking the Right Seven Questions
- Leadership Lesson from the Military: Put Away Your Iron Fist and Empower Your Troops
- The New Digital Reality: Your Brand Is No Longer in Your Own Hands
Accounting Updates
New Consolidation Standards — Who Put the VIE in Related-Party Lease Arrangements?
The new consolidation guidance has snagged the most common sort of related-party transaction in our practice today — the related-party lease. The basic scenario covered by this alert is the following: An entity needs a building to contain its operations. The owner of the business entity finds such a building, buys it, and leases it to the entity.
read moreProposed Changes to Revenue Recognition Standards — Only One Proud Standard Rather than Dozens
What’s “ahead” in this article:> Key Points> FAQs — Other Common Questions and Answers> Suggested Next Steps> A Final Important Note(click on these links to go directly to that section)The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an exposure draft in...
read moreProposed Changes to Lease Accounting Standards — The Classic Cookie-Cutter Standard Is Likely to Be Retired
What’s “ahead” in this article:> Key Points for Lessees> Change and Volatility on Income Statement> FAQs> Suggested Next Steps> Two Final Notes(click on these links to go directly to that section)FASB issued an exposure draft in August 2010 to substantially...
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