Thomas Klein, CPA
Managing MemberKleinCPA PLLC
Thomas Klein is a Faculty Member in the University of Arizona's Eller College of Business. Mr. Klein teaches Taxation and Financial Accounting courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA, Masters of Accounting) level. He is also the Managing Member of Klein CPA, a former Deloitte & Touche National Firm Director, and an expert contributor to CNNMoney.com. Mr. Klein has over 20 years of experience in the practice of public accounting (Audit, Taxation, & Financial Accounting). Mr. Klein’s teaching interests in the tax area include corporate, multistate, and multinational taxation and mergers & acquisitions and teaching interests in the financial accounting area include earnings management, accounting for stock compensation plans, accounting for income taxes, leases, and consolidations and the statement of cash flows. Mr. Klein has extensive industry expertise in the Healthcare and Retail areas. He has authored feature articles in many of the accounting profession's top journals. (This is me - Update Profile)
| 2001 - present | Managing Member KleinCPA PLLC |
|---|---|
| 2001 - present | Faculty Member, Accounting & Taxation University of Arizona - CC |
| 1988 - 2001 | National Firm Director Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. |
| 1984 - 1988 | Superviser Grant Thornton/Frazer & Torbet |
GLG Study Groups with Thomas Klein, CPA(?)
| Study Group Name | Members |
|---|---|
| Accounting, Finance, and Tax Professors (US) | 411 |
| Tax Professionals (US) | 432 |
| Academic Pension Accounting Specialists | 17 |
| Cash Flow Analysis Academic Experts | 9 |
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Depending upon management's classification of a security (i.e., either "trading" or "available for sale"), a charge may or may not appear on the income statement in the same period as the write-down on the balance sheet. If the security is classified as a trading security, the charge on the income...
Investors fled General Motors following the release of its Q3 results. The reported loss for the quarter was $38.96 billion of which 99% of the loss ($38.6 billion) resulted from the write-down of deferred tax assets. Have investors overreacted to the noncash charge or is the decline in...
The FASB received over 400 letters representing more than 1,000 companies’ concerns about implementation issues related to FASB Interpretation #48 (FIN 48). The vast majority of the letters requested a deferral of the effective date of the new Interpretation; fiscal years beginning after December...
FASB Interpretation No. 48 ("FIN 48"), Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, is scheduled to become effective for a company's first quarter beginning after December 15, 2006 (i.e., the quarter ended 3/31/07 for calendar year companies). The FASB announced today that it will...
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