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Intercompany Loan from a US Parent to a Foreign Company
Here is the case: A US parent lends $$ periodically to its foreign subsidiary company in China to help out its operation. There is no definite date for repayment of the loan and no interest calculated. What's the GAAP treatment on recording this transaction on both parent and sub's book? Should the…
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Sustainability Metrics
I'm heading to the New Metrics of Sustainable Business conference in Philadelphia next week. A few questions for the experienced folks in this community: Which, if any, sustainability-related indicators do you measure at your company? Some companies are interested only in relatively simple met…
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Grant accounting
I just began working with a biotech company with siginificant grant revenues and reimbursements. I am looking for any good materials or sites to review proper recognition and other grant accounting isses for R&D and other grants.
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Capital Budgeting Examples
My sister brought me this accounting question which unfortunately is my not field. So i was hoping to get some help from any accounting professional, maybe with this or other capital budgeting examples: Question: If a company can purchase a new copier that will save $5,000 per year in copying…
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GAP Analysis - how often do you perform it?
GAP Analysis, as we all know, measures where your company stands against where your company wants to be, should be or needs to be. It is a great tool for clearly delineating issues; finding problems and using the results to formulate corrective measures. Do you do GAP Analyses, and if so, how often…
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Corporate Tax Rate for Project Financing Model: Large International Chemical Plant
I'm building a project finance model for a ~$200M chemical plant based in the EU, with the parent Company located in the US. I have been using a corporate income tax ratre of 25%... is this a good number? Is there some published data or accepted norm on what rate should be used for an accurate proj…
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Looking for benchmark data for Shared Services customer surveys
Looking for some benchmark data for captive (internal) finance & accounting shared services organizations that have conducted customer satisfaction surveys. I would like to see where my organization stands versus others. While I realize that the devil is in the details on these surveys and much…
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Reason for applying 100% of sales credit to margins
What is the reasoning why a company would charge 100% of a sales credit directly to 100% of margings. An example if a product sells or $1000 and the margin is 50% meaning $500, why would a sales credit of $1000 be charged directly to margins meaning the hit on margins results in $-500. A sales rep …
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Sales forecasting techniques for company in transition
I'm having a difficult time with sales forecasting and the challenges that come with that. The problem stems from change at all levels:. new CEO, mostly new sales department, changes in the marketplace and changes in our product line and thus our marketing. Has anyone dealt with a similar situation…
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Revenue by Department - Need best practices
I would like some input on what other companies are doing with regard to tracking and measuring revenue by department. We are currently using Quickbooks so I am aware of "class" but it does not work to the level of detail that I would like. Revenue is currently tracked by item (labor category). If …
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Unusual Financing: Looking for Ideas and Suggestions
Sorry for the long background, but it's important for the discussion. I'm consulting to a small US based, 15 person technical services company (The Company). It is in the advanced materials space. They have a unique technology, that a "Global 2000" firm (the US subsidiary of the Global 2000) has de…
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Intercompany debt in Chile
We have a large intercompany loan to our wholly owned subsidiary in Chile that we are not charging interest on. We would like to bring it back to Australia parent company. Any advice on the tax implications of this? Research tells me we should be paying 0.05% stamp duty per month on this loan. We w…
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Are there Planning/Forecasting tools available that support weekly reporting? We have looked at both Adaptive Planning and Host Analytics but they both only support monthly at this time.
We are looking for a bridge (Cloud based) between Dynamics and AX that would provide project management, planning, analysis and reporting on a weekly basis for a mid-size consulting company.
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Can A Finance Professional Easily Change Industries These Days?
Some professions are more or less locked into one or a limited few industries however finance professionals have traditionally been able to change between industries. This would especially be true in a time where the finance function was all about compliance and beancounting. However today the fina…
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Why Small Businesses Aren’t Hiring… and How to Change That
In the Harvard Business Review, the above referenced article by Jeff Stibel claims that the real reason small businesses don't hire is not about cash flow, but an investment issue. He states, "We tend to equate job growth with business success but the reality is far more nuanced than that. Adding j…
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Pre-IPO Stock Incentive Plans
As a pre-IPO company, we would like to offer stock incentives to current employees. Can you point me to a good resource to research this topic? Thanks! -Steve
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Profiting Personally on the Company's Dime
We have an employee who travels from out of state to work in our corporate office. We've cosigned, paid for and furninshed an apartment for him. We've just recently discovered that he is renting it out on a well known website for a profit. Is this behavior ethical? Is it fraud? What should be …
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What budgeting and forecasting is done in well-run small companies?
What budgeting and forecasting is usually done in well-run but small ($4 Million revenue) B2B companies? We have a fairly diverse and complex set of offerings including sales of software, services, logistics management, and equipment. Excels seems too tedious and error prone, but many software prog…
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9 Regulatory Issues That Will Affect Small Business in 2014
According to Fox Small Business here are 9 issues for 2014. How are you affected? Health care: Numerous provisions related to health care reform continue to affect small business owners and their employees. Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA): Immigration and E-verify: Immigration reform very much remai…
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Tracking costs of product development
What is the best mechanism for tracking costs associated with the development of IP products? We've got a number of projects that we're working on internally in hopes of turning them into publications and taking them to market. They cut across departments. My CEO thinks each project should be a cos…
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Transfer Pricing
Two questions....Does anyone have a transfer pricing policy that addresses settlements between entities that they can share? And has anyone written up and documented transfer pricing rule/support for your company without using an external firm? What framework did you use or what did you use as a gu…
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The "definitive" list of senior finance (CFO and senior FT&A execs) organizations in the U.S.
Wayne's post on the accfo (whom I had never heard of) got me thinking about all of the CFO or senior finance/acct'g organizations I've seen in my years in finance. I thought it might be handy to come up with a "definitive" list of local and national networking and membership groups/associations as …
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