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Study Group: Tax Professionals (US)(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 423

This study group may include chief financial officers, chartered public accountants, controllers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as finance, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting and fraud, financial accounting and reporting, bankruptcy, pension benefits, cash flow, company valuation, working capital, hedge accounting, and mergers and acquisition, among others.

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Thomas Klein, CPA, Managing Member, KleinCPA PLLCThomas Klein, CPA
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KleinCPA 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...

Frances Zuniga, Owner, Frances Zuniga LLCFrances Zuniga
Owner
Frances Zuniga LLC

Frances Zuniga is the Owner of Frances A. Zuniga, a California-based independent accounting and auditing firm. She has over 30 years of experience in investigating and resolving international tax issues, advanced corporate tax issues, non profit issues, criminal tax fraud, and money laundering issues....

George Hoenig, President, George S. Hoenig,LLCGeorge Hoenig
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George S. Hoenig,LLC

George S. Hoenig is the President at George S. Hoenig LLC, a CT-based independent tax consulting firm. He has over 40 years of diverse public accounting experience working in a number of industries including software, high tech, chemicals, financial services, consumer products, and aereospace. Mr. Hoenig...

Gil Manzon, Associate Professor, Boston CollegeGil Manzon
Associate Professor
Boston College

Gil Manzon is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Masters of Science in Accounting Program at Boston College. He has taught courses in introductory accounting, intermediate accounting, advanced accounting, contemporary accounting topics, financial statement analysis, corporate tax planning and...

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Example of Fraud Prevalent From the Bottom to the Top of Every Organization | 06-23-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

With the market reaching below a 12,000 DOW, fraudsters will be ever more vigilant in attempting to "bait" their prey into investing in ever more "profitable" endeavors.  With these unscrupulous agents everywhere, it is important to have a "Fraud Examiner" (Forensic Accountant) available for analyses...

The Beginning of the End of the FASB | 05-13-2008
Analysis of: The Beginning of the End of GAAP | www.cfo.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

The title of the article is a misnomer - it is the FASB not GAAP that is being replaced.  With little debate or scrutiny, and no cost/benefit analysis of which I'm aware, the SEC has decided to replace United States GAAP with that of an international body over which it has no control. Accounting...

IFRS and US GAAP - Convergance Difficulties | 05-12-2008
Analysis of: The Beginning of the End of GAAP | www.cfo.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

1.  Given  all of the differences between US GAAP and IFRS it will be a few more years before convergance occurs. 2.  There is a lack of conformity with respect to adherance to IFRS as it has been promulgated into law.  As such, it is difficult to review a financial statement completed...

Is Western Union Market Share Taking Market Share from Competitors? | 04-24-2008
Author: Gil Manzon, Associate Professor, Boston College

I think the information presented in the article is consistent with Western Union picking up market share from competitors. Despite flat U.S. revenues over 05-07 period and likely near flat revenues from the U.S. in Q108 in part attributable to the Mexican results, Western Union has gained significant...

Securty Writedowns Today May Lead to Massive P&L Charges Later for C, MER and Others | 04-21-2008
Analysis of: A Way Charges Stay Off Bottom Line | online.wsj.com
Author: Thomas Klein, CPA, Managing Member, KleinCPA PLLC

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...

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