Company Y began business in February 2016. By the end of the calendar year, it had billed

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Company Y began business in February 2016. By the end of the calendar year, it had billed its clients for $3.5 million of services and had incurred $800,000 of operating expenses. As of December 31, it had collected $2.9 million of its billings and had paid $670,000 of its expenses. It expects to collect the remaining outstanding bills and pay the remaining expenses by March 2017. Company Y adopted a calendar year for federal tax purposes. It may use either the cash method or the accrual method of accounting on its first tax return, and has asked you to quantify the value of using the cash method for the first year. In doing so, assume Company Y uses a 5 percent discount rate to compute NPV.

Discount Rate
Depending upon the context, the discount rate has two different definitions and usages. First, the discount rate refers to the interest rate charged to the commercial banks and other financial institutions for the loans they take from the Federal...
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Principles Of Taxation For Business And Investment Planning 2017

ISBN: 9781259753015

20th Edition

Authors: Sally M. Jones, Shelley C. Rhoades Catanach, Sandra R. Callaghan

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