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FINANCE/FRAUD
Managing
Meetings
by
Will Tate, Joan Eisenstodt and Cheryl
Rosen
At most companies
and firms, meetings are a huge line item
that’s among the most difficult to
manage and track—and enormously
vulnerable to fraud and abuse. Here are
some tips for planning great meetings,
holding down costs and establishing
processes to protect firms and companies
from the unique temptations that meetings
budgets offer to those who plan and
sponsor them. 
 For all CPAs.
TAX
Home Sweet Home
by
Leonard Goodman and Jay A. Soled
Identifying the tax
basis of an asset is rarely
easy—especially when the asset in
question is your home. This article
explores how taxpayers should compute the
tax basis in their homes and the records
they should maintain to avoid the risk of
additional tax, interest and penalties.
For CPAs in public practice.
EMPLOYEE
BENEFITS
Too Much of a Good Thing
by
Joanne Sammer
Companies that
allow employees to accumulate too much
company stock in their 401(k) accounts
face the possibility of lawsuits if the
stock price declines. There are steps
CPAs can recommend to minimize this risk
while still satisfying employees.
For CPAs who work
for or advise companies with 401(k)
plans.
PRACTICE
DEVELOPMENT
Best
Practices in EBP Audits
by
Michael Hayes
The Department of
Labor requires employee benefit plan
(EBP) audits for all employers with more
than 100 eligible plan participants and
some smaller plans. It is a growing
practice area. Here are development tips
for this growing practice area.
For CPAs in public practice.
PRACTICE
MANAGEMENT
Start
Your Own Practice
by
Randy Myers
Launching your own
CPA practice is one of the greatest
professional challenges you’ll ever
undertake—and potentially one of the
most rewarding. Fraught with hard work
and long hours, it’s also a chance
to build something of your own. This
article can help.
For all CPAs.
TECHNOLOGY
WORKSHOP
Charts in Real Time
by
Patricia McCarthy
All charts make
data easier to understand, but the best
ones are dynamic, updating automatically
as the underlying information
changes—making them perfect for
presentations.
For all CPAs.
WORTH
REPEATING
What’s in IT for You (And
Your Company)?
by
Marc J. Epstein and Adriana Rejc Buhovac
The difficulty of
calculating the return on an IT
investment often makes it hard to obtain
funding for needed improvements in an
organization’s systems. This article
shows how to measure both the tangible
and intangible results of IT initiatives
and their impact on the bottom line.
For CPAs in industry.
HIGHLIGHTS
NEWS DIGEST
Auditing…Government
Accounting…International…Privacy…Technology…FYI.
THE
INTERNET
Smart stops on the Web.
AT A
GLANCE: CHARTS AND GRAPHICS
Easier to move about?
Lock ’em up.
Sung heroes.
Big business audits… ...And
small business audits.
More e-filers than ever.
LETTERS
Options
valuation models.
Modified statements for NPEs.
Another Social Security fix.
TOP LINE
News, people, trends and other
noteworthy items.
CHECKLIST
Employee benefits news you can
use.
TAX MATTERS
Tax Case: Restrictions on the
right of offset.
Tax
Case: Can estate reduce IRAs’ value
for tax purposes?
Tax Case: Dividends-received
deduction from portfolio stock.
FROM THE
TAX ADVISER
AMT
for individuals.
TECHNOLOGY
Q&A
Add extra text box to a chart…Use
Office Clipboard to control selective
copying…Should
you leave your computer running 24/7?…Identify files with customized
information…Convert
hyperlinks to text…Anchor
an Excel range without $ signs…Excel
shortcuts.
INSIDE
AICPA
Top PFP contributor named.
THE LAST
WORD
A
closer look at some of the intriguing,
inspiring and imaginative folks who are
the heart of the AICPA.
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