Answer the following questions. Please type using a word processing program and bring a printed copy to class. Write as much or as little as you feel necessary to answer each question to the best of your ability. You may use all available resources to complete this case e.g., lecture slides, notes, your book, and the Accounting Standards Codification. Collaboration with others in your group is allowed to the extent that it is helpful. How you work together is up to you however, I encourage everyone in the group to take at least some part for every question. Please turn in only one finished assignment for each group. Use appropriate citations where relevant and according to your professional judgment. For questions requiring use of the codification, please use the following style:

1) Cite the ASC down to the Paragraph. For example, (ASC 330-10-05-01)

2) Copy-paste the paragraph you cite from the codification into the word document.

3) Interpret the codification paragraph into plain English as best you can. In other words, how would you explain the appropriate accounting treatment to a colleague, boss, or business partner who has a basic understanding of accounting? You may (and are encouraged to) use debits and credits or t-accounts to illustrate the accounting if appropriate.

After a decade or so in mining, you decide to change jobs because you wanted to do nothing with anything related to tax or tax accounting ever again and in a regulated industry, there was too much of this. A few years later, however, the controller comes to you with a comment letter from the SEC which expresses concern about how your company reports its current and deferred income tax accounts in its financial reports. You look as white as a sheet because you hoped to never do tax accounting again. Find and interpret the appropriate ASC guidance for how to initially measure deferred taxes. (You may need to cite more than one ASC paragraph.)