FP&A
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Cross Charging Intercompany Expenses
Can anyone give me ideas on how to cross charge intercompany expenses?
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Anyone know about ExecReps? "Agents" for execs to get onto boards of directors...
I was contacted by a company called Execreps, which is essentially a talent agency for corporate execs. To wit, if you are a CFO and want to get on to corporate boards, they will help you find those positions, get the inside track through their connections/reach, and then they take a %. It's an int…
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What cuts have you made in company spending that helped your budget the greatest?
Effective cost reduction ideas needed.
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Business Restructuring Charges
We have recently gone through a restructuring that resulted in a number of write-offs of assets and taking charges for the estimated cost of transition of certain employees. Are these run through the P&L and dropped into a reserve on the Balance Sheet and then taken off the Balance Sheet as the…
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CFO/Controller without a CPA
Two-part question/discussion about being a CFO/Controller without a CPA, primarily from the small/private company perspective: 1) Besides bulletins from/consultations with your external accountants (and Proformative discussion boards), any other key resources/tips for keeping on top of emergi…
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Accounting For Distributor Commissions
Commissions paid to distributors for sales made by the company to end users in the distributor's territory. Is a COGS (or debit to Sales) or a Selling expenses (SG&A)
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What is the proper GAAP accounting treatment for detachable warrants?
Any insight into the proper accounting treatment for detachable warrants
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Accounting For Partnership Distributions
I have a theoretical question governing partnership distributions accounting. If an entity invests $1,000 and expects to earn $300/ year over a five year period (for a total return of $1,500), is the first $1,000 treated as a return of capital, and subsequent partnership distributions (i.e., year…
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We are a SEC reporter and we are thinking of changing our FYE from 9/30 to 10/31.
Has anybody had any experience in doing this? Is it worth it? What were the pros and cons? How did you handle your tax year?
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Conversion of LLC member debt to equity without triggering COD
An LLC member that put cash into the company originally as debt is now going to convert the debt to member units. I need to prepare a white paper in the event the IRS shows up to prove there is no cancellation of debt tax effects for that member. I have prepared a valuation based on income and mark…
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What is a 'reasonable' (to avoid IRS audits) for LLC S-Corp owners?
If you own an LLC taxed as an S-Corp the IRS requires that you pay yourself a 'reasonable' salary but they refuse to provide specific guidance beyond that. If you pay yourself too low of a salary (and receive a lot of income via dividends taxed at 15%) then they will demand that you raise your sala…
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Financing calcs: How to deal with very low/negative equity and dividend impacts, etc.
This question pertains to many classic financial calculations -- ROE, average shareholder equity, DuPont models, debt to equity ratio, etc. These formulae are fairly easy to interpret and apply for the average company in reasonable health. But generally, how do you deal with such oddball situations…
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How do you account for Standby Letters of Credit?
We're considering have our bank issue a LOC for a new lease where we don't want to pay the large security deposit. All of the guidance I find is related to the bank/guarantor but I cannot locate anything about our side. I think there would be no balance sheet impact, we would account for the fees a…
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Wondering best practices in the formula for calculating DSO?
Our company currently factors in unbilled revenue or contracts that have been signed but no revenue incurred yet in our calculation of DSO. Are these appropriate DSO calculation methods? We also only invoice customers at month end, so in calculating DSO percentages during the month, it seems our ca…
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Where can I find excel-based financial modeling templates?
Hello everybody, Where can I find excel-based financial modeling templates? Thank you for your time! Sara
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Big 4 to FP&A possible?
Hi, I'm an auditor at a big 4 firm and was wondering how easy it is to make the transition from auditing into an FP&A type role with some experience? Basically, I am afraid that going from audit => Sr accountant, which a lot of people do, will pigeon-hole me just into accounting, which isn't…
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Fashion Retail KPI's?
When assessing the financial performance of a fashion retail outlet, what KPI's should one calculate and analyze?
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Mileage reimbursement rates
We are looking at mileage reimbursement rates for 2015. We currently reimburse our local sales reps a flat amount ($ .27) per mile. I'm trying to get a sense of what other companies (particularly in Colorado) are doing.
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Has anyone looked at Anaplan vs Adaptive vs Host?
We are going to evaluate all 3 options and would like to know what the relative plus/minuses are.
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Does Anyone Use QuickBooks for Corporate Budgeting?
We use QuickBooks Enterprise as our accounting system and we are planning to roll out a new budgeting system in the next month or so. Do you use the budgeting and forecasting tools in QuckBooks as the basis of your corporate budgeting? I see on another post that most small companies still seem to …
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Expensing of a Rebranding Initiative
My company has recently gone through a re-branding initiative for one of our divisions. We spent a lot of money on a new logo, slogan and various other design items. The benefit of all this money spent will be seen in 2014 and beyond. There's no benefit at all in 2013. Should this expenditure be ex…
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