It’s not immediately obvious what this has to do with a BLT sandwich or with building a great team, but Tom Elsenbrook, leader of Corporate Performance Improvement, promises to make that connection — if you'll give him a minute or two.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is working on a project to simplify accounting and tax accounting for stock-based compensation under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 718 (formerly known as FAS 123(R)).

This edition of Tax Advisor Weekly focuses on the key technical requirements, planning opportunities, process controls and methodology changes available to taxpayers to increase the amount of deductible meals and entertainment expenditures.

2015-Issue 12—There are a number of reasons why a company might consider moving its corporate headquarters, relocating key operations or outsourcing certain aspects of its business. Once the decision has been made to execute such a material organizational change, managing the human factor becomes paramount to a successful transition.

The U.S. economy is constantly fluctuating, which makes for an ever-changing landscape in corporate America.

Subchapter K, the codification of partnership taxation, can involve deemed transactions that raise the specter of gain recognition under a number of anti-deferral provisions or simultaneous transactions where an ordering of steps is necessary to determine the tax consequences to the parties. .

The proposed EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is designed to replace the now defunct Safe Harbor scheme which was developed to protect the transfer of personal data between the EU and the United States. However, the framework only addresses one aspect of risk in dealing with data.

Reimbursing and substantiating business travel expenses can be cumbersome and time-consuming. It usually involves employees collecting receipts as they travel and maintaining records that note the time, place and business purpose of each expenditure.

On April 1, 2015, the U.K. is introducing a new tax, the Diverted Profits Tax (DPT), which has been dubbed the “Google tax” by the media. It is aimed at aggressive tax planning that erodes the U.K. tax base.

On 1 April 2015 the UK is introducing a new tax, the Diverted Profits Tax (“DPT”) which has been dubbed the “Google tax” by the media. It is aimed at aggressive tax planning that erodes the UK tax base.

In this article, we review the convergent impact of ongoing drivers of change that will coincide with an acceleration of CMS payment reform.

In 2013 private equity investors committed $10.6 billion to 755 transactions in India. However, in the first half of 2014, private equity deal activity declined. Investor confidence has been impacted by fraud and accounting scandals involving private equity portfolio companies in India.

This edition of Tax Advisor Weekly focuses on how key aspects of the proposed regulations may affect how taxpayers identify and substantiate IUS-related costs as part of their future R&D credit calculations.

Incentive compensation is an integral part of the total compensation package for executives at most large, publicly traded companies.

A fresh set of implementation guidelines was issued early in February by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Action 13, Transfer Pricing Documentation and a Template for Country-by-Country Reporting of the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) initiative.