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4/1/2010 - The Process of Improving Business
Attesting that a set of financial statements are free from material misstatement. Filing our client’s tax returns. Helping clients streamline their business by a series of process improvement activities. Whoa! That last service doesn’t sound like an accounting firm’s typical service, does it? |
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2/25/2010 - Then and Now: Pension Law Reforms Impact DB Funding
In the wake of the Pension Protection Act and the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008, employer-sponsored benefit plans are being impacted by what many consider to be the most comprehensive reform of pension law since the inception of ERISA.
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2/25/2010 - The Challenge of Alternative Investments
Of course, “alternative” means different things to different people. But, loosely defined, alternative investments are those that are not quoted on an exchange or other public market. This could include anything from hedge funds and private equity funds to real estate, timber, oil & gas, LBOs and commodities. |
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2/25/2010 - FASB 157 And The Importance Of Establishing Fair Value
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements, or FASB 157 as it is known, creates a revised definition of fair value. It also establishes a framework for classifying benefit plan assets based on the certainty with which fair values can be calculated.
And that is critical because, as a plan fiduciary, you are legally responsible for accurately establishing fair value for the investments in your plan — including alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds and insurance accounts.
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2/1/2010 - Risk and Oversight of Employee Benefit Plans
How effective are your organization’s internal controls? Do you know about the risks of being a fiduciary and do you comply with mandated requirements? With more companies under scrutiny to employees, shareholders and the government, the accountability on employee benefit plans, has changed. |
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8/5/2009 - Green Book Offers Proposed Tax Changes
Big Changes Could be in Store for Multinational Companies |
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3/27/2009 - Businesses crossing borders must bear in mind tax issues
Where there is international business, cross-border tax issues always follow. |
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12/2/2008 - The Impact of the Impending IFRS Conversion
On Aug. 27, 2008, the SEC announced its proposed roadmap for the eventual conversion of U.S publicly traded companies from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The initial plan calls for allowing the largest of the multinational companies to adopt and report financial results in IFRS starting in 2010. It is estimated there would be approximately 110 of these companies that span multiple industries. |
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4/21/2008 - It’s Easy Being Green: Five Ways to Go Green In 2008
Companies around the world are now on the “going green” bandwagon for a number of reasons. Some do it for the sole purpose of marketing “green;” others do it for tax incentives. However, very few do it because it is the right thing to do for their clients, employees and the environment. |
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7/24/2006 - Interest Charge - Domestic International Sales Corporation (IC-DISC)
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10/1/2005 - Creating Synergy and Re-engaging Employees: Shifting the Collective Mindset in a Company’s Culture
When a company is faced with a lack of “caring” from its employees, it is imperative that an effort be made to shift this mindset. The process starts with an open mind and a willingness to change focus – beginning at the management level. |
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10/1/2005 - Texas Politics and Taxation: 200 Days of Asking the Wrong Questions
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4/1/2005 - Volunteer Outreach Provides Benefits to Community and PKF Texas
With corporate scandals dominating the beginning of the 21st Century, a growing trend for corporate America is to refocus efforts to be good corporate citizens … encouraging and supporting volunteerism among its employees, supporting their efforts through contributions of money and time to nonprofit and not-for-profit causes. |
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4/1/2005 - Business Plan Competitions Instruct, Educate and Train Leaders
Having a solid business plan supports all three of these concepts, but the plan must function in the real world with measurable and obtainable goals.
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3/7/2005 - Volunteer Outreach Provides Benefits to Community and PKF Texas
Being good corporate citizens encourages company growth. |
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2/25/2005 - The Process of Improving Business
From start to finish, improvement activities to help your business succeed. |
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2/16/2005 - Business Plan Competitions Instruct, Educate and Train Leaders
An interview with the heads of competitions at Rice and Texas A&M and the benefits. |
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10/1/2004 - PKF Texas’ Profit Enhancement Services Realize Lost Revenues
For the last several years, Better Bags, Inc. (BBI) aligned its organization to meet international competitive forces, while still serving its growing customer base, at a profit.
As part of its plan, Byron Hebert of PKF Texas was brought in on a specific Profit Enhancement project that would help BBI Bags identify basic accounting practices. These practices would reliably reflect BBI’s current level of financial performance more effectively in order to find root causes and immediately improve its systems.
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9/1/2004 - Public Relations Committee Endorses Association for Accounting Marketing
Houston CPA Society PKF Texas to discuss the benefits of starting a Houston chapter of the Association for Accounting Marketing. |
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8/17/2004 - The Power to Create Your "Best Year Yet" in Business
A PKF Texas Interview with Dan Prosser of Conversint. |
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8/9/2004 - PKF Texas’ Profit Enhancement Services Realize Lost Revenues
Case Study featuring the work of Byron Hebert. |
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7/1/2004 - Internship Programs Work for PKF Texas
While the summer season for some college students might turn to thoughts of the beach, lazy days and catching up on sleep, more students are taking the initiative to seek and secure quality summer internships that will no doubt help them with their future careers.
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7/1/2004 - U.S. Estate Tax Planning for Multinational Family Business
Do you have any foreign family member, friend or investor participating in your U.S. business through either equity or debt? If you have not considered U.S. estate tax planning for that person, you may be putting your business at risk. U.S. assets directly owned by nonresident aliens (NRAs), including interest in a U.S. partnership and loans to a U.S. business, can be subject to estate taxes of 50 percent at the time such property is transferred to the heirs at death. |
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6/10/2004 - Internship Programs Work for PKF Texas
Advice and information about the PKF Internship program. |
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5/11/2004 - U.S. Estate Tax Planning for Multinational Family Business
Rules, Foreign Corporations, Estate vs. Income tax, loan structures, exceptions, and surprises. |
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