In article <d9ad3b4a-e94b-4687-8de3-7231d282578f[at]l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com> ,
<nearly_blind[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
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Here's how one large company does it


http://www.att.com/Investor/Financia...IS_IB_1Q08.xls




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ArtKamlet at a o l dot c o m Columbus OH K2PZH

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On Jun 10, 2:43*pm, "removeps-gro...[at]yahoo.com" <removeps-
gro...[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
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EPS is reported after all taxes. That's the number investors are
looking for.

Katie in San Diego

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In misc.taxes.moderated, removeps-groups[at]yahoo.com wrote:

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For public corporations, as a single headline number it is after
accrued taxes. The without-taxes number is usually also available.

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On Jun 10, 11:14*am, nearly_bl...[at]yahoo.com wrote:

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State and local tax paid does reduce federal taxable income and thus
federal taxes, and foreign taxes paid also reduce federal tax.

When companies reporting their earnings, like 100M or 50 cents a
share, is that before all taxes, before federal taxes, or after all
taxes?

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On Jun 10, 11:14*am, nearly_bl...[at]yahoo.com wrote:
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Of course it does. Taxes are an expense of the business. Just
because they aren't deductible in calculating taxable income doesn't
mean they don't reduce income for accounting purposes. Otherwise you
would get a very unrealistic picture of your business profit!

An accrual method corporation expenses state and federal income taxes
accrued on a book basis. If there are timing differences between book
and tax treatment of certain items (e.g., depreciation), the deduction
is divided between current and deferred tax liabilities. Debit tax
expense, credit current and deferred liabilities. When the tax is
paid, the liability account is debited.

Katie in San Diego

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I'm a officer/founder of a small C corp. Another person is
responsible
for the bookkeeping (who is not an accountant, but an engineer) with
the help of a CPA.
Every quarter the "bookkeeper" generates a YTD P&L statement
from QuickBooks (I guess it can do this automatically). This is
probably not relevent,
but he generates CASH and ACCURAL version for us for reference,
although we file our
taxes using CASH.

My specific question is should taxes (e.g. federal) paid (and TAXES
due for the accrual case) be
included as a Expense on the P&L? He says yes, but I think they
should not be. (I don't have any direct contact with the CPA to ask
him
without making waves).

In our case, tax management is one our primary concerns (distributing
salary/commision payments
over the year to minimize profits, corporate taxes, and late
estimated
tax payment penalties).
When taxes are included in the P&L you have to remember to add
the taxes back into the net income to to estimate the taxable
profits.

Does the standard definition of a P&L include taxes or not? - Thanks

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