When it comes to a company’s taxes, there are two important categories to understand: assets and liabilities. Tax liability is anything that a person or company owes taxes on, such as income or ...

A deferred tax asset is usually an item on a company's balance sheet that was created by the early payment or overpayment of taxes. They are financial assets that can be redeemed in the future to ...

This report is one of a series on the adjustments we make to convert GAAP data to economic earnings. Reported earnings don’t tell the whole story of a company’s profits. They are based on ...

Accrual accounting, a system of accounting designed to account for sales and expenses in the period they were incurred, allows certain expenses, assets, and sales to be deferred to the next accounting ...

A deferred tax liability arises when a company's real-world tax bill is lower than what its financial statements suggest it should be due to differences between tax accounting rules and standard ...

Deferred-tax assets are created when a company's recorded income tax (what it reports in its income statement) is lower than that paid to the tax authority. It's usually a good thing to find on a ...