Fixed Asset & Depreciation Management Resources: White Papers, Resource Guides, & eBooks
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A Practical Guide to More Efficient Fixed Asset Accounting
Boosting Your Accuracy and Speed from Reporting to Closing
This valuable eBook illustrates how using fixed asset and depreciation management system, in an integrated fashion with your general ledger and accounts payable systems, can actually reduce the time required to perform common activities — and at the same time improve overall accuracy.
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Asset Inventory Audits: Benefits of an Automated Approach
Don’t let inaccurate fixed assets tracking have a negative impact on your next audit. This white paper, authored by industry expert Alden Snyder, President and Founder of Asset Systems, explores the importance of compliance and accuracy when tracking and valuing your company’s fixed assets.
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Best Practices in Fixed Asset Management: Resource Guide for Business Vehicles
Accounting Companion for Getting the Most Depreciation for Your Fleet
This essential Resource Guide for Business Vehicles covers everything you need to know to optimize tax benefits from vehicle depreciation.
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Best Practices in Fixed Asset Management: A Resource Guide for Claiming Bonus Depreciation
Get answers to your questions such as what property qualifies for either the 50% or the 100% bonus depreciation deduction. The updated Guide includes additional important provisions created by The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 and Revenue Procedure 2011-26.
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Best Practices in Fixed Asset Management: A Resource Guide for Intangible Assets
A Companion for Capitalizing Intangible Assets for GAAP and Tax Reporting
Get the guidelines for managing and achieving the best possible financial return on your intangible assets
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Best Practices for Fixed Asset Technology Integration
This white paper introduces best practices for integrating fixed asset management technology into your organization as part of a strategic asset management initiative. These best practices are based on “lessons learned” over the course of decades of successfully implementing and integrating GAAP and tax depreciation and fixed asset software in organizations ranging from SMBs to the Fortune 100.
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Electing Out of Bonus Depreciation for Refundable Credits
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 allows corporate taxpayers to elect to forgo a deduction for bonus depreciation on qualifying property and instead claim a refund for unused research and AMT credits from tax years beginning before 2006 under IRS Section 168(k)(4). The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 both modified this provision. Learn more about this complex provision and find out what you need to consider in order to make the decision most beneficial to your bottom line.
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Empowering the Tax Department With ERP & Tax Depreciation Integration
The application of tax depreciation calculations represents one of the largest tax adjustments to the financial accounting calculation of income. Despite the materiality of this calculation, many corporations take months to perform the tax depreciation function. This white paper examines the limitations of accounting (ERP) systems in managing tax depreciation and details an alternative approach wherein a tax depreciation system integrates with the ERP to provide enhanced efficiency, accuracy, and controls in the tax depreciation process.
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The Essential Guide for Managing Fixed Assets
Whether you want become the "go-to" person in your department or need to have the most relevant information on how to manage your fixed assets for optimal tax depreciation, you'll benefit from this eBook from the experts at BNA Software
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Property Qualifying for Bonus Depreciation
Just what property does qualify for bonus depreciation? This article will clear up the confusion as to which fixed assets qualify for this valuable deduction.
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Reasons NOT to Claim the 100% Bonus Depreciation Deduction
A major provision of the recently passed Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 is the temporary allowance of 100% expensing using bonus depreciation. This new deduction represents a huge opportunity for many businesses to take sizable deductions. However, it is possible that claiming the 100% bonus depreciation deduction is not the best option for your particular business.
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Straight Talk About Fixed Asset Software
A Guide to Meeting Today’s Toughest Compliance Challenges
This valuable eBook is a no-nonsense guide to selecting the right fixed asset software to help meeting a variety of today’s compliance, reporting, and reconciliation challenges.
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The Reality, Perception, and Truth of Using the ERP for Tax Depreciation
Can't Do This in the ERP System: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Fixed Asset Management in the ERP
Learn about the pros and cons of utilizing the corporate financial accounting system (ERP/GL) for fixed asset management and tax depreciation calculations, and an alternative strategy.
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New! Under Pressure - Finance and Tax Executives on Tax Management in a Challenging Recovery
A report prepared by CFO Research Services in collaboration with BNA Software
This report reveals five pressure points that tax and finance teams are facing together, as well a perception gap between the finance function’s desires and the tax function’s primary goals (and the tactics used to achieve them).
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When Fixed Assets Cause Inaccuracies in Financial Statements: A Controller’s Perspective
This article shares Bloomberg BNA’s own controller's perspective regarding proactive strategies to eliminate financial statement errors and avoid the hassles and embarrassment of restatements. Learn how comprehensive fixed asset software can prevent the pain of statement errors.
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Why Spreadsheets and Depreciation Don’t Mix
What You Should Know About Appropriate Spreadsheet Usage
Anyone who calculates tax depreciation and manages fixed assets using spreadsheets knows that it can be time-consuming – making the time to period close unnecessarily long. That’s not including the time and effort it takes to track, analyze, and adjust depreciation calculations based on regulatory changes. Learn about the hidden pitfalls that may be costing your company money – and how you can minimize risk and maximize productivity when tracking and calculating fixed asset depreciation.
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