Although a majority of income and deduction items encountered by a business enterprise are treated identically for financial reporting and tax purposes, there are numerous items that are treated differently. They are known as book-tax differences and are classified as either temporary or permanent.

This course covers temporary differences, including:

• how to identify and account for temporary differences
  

  • income/expense book-tax difference relating to financial income that will be recognized in the future is known as a deductible temporary difference creating a deferred tax asset.

  • income/expense book-tax difference relating to taxable income that will be recognized in the future is known as a taxable temporary difference creating a deferred tax liability.

  • What to do when these items reverse in a future period.

• the balance sheet presentation of deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities arising from these transactions

• how to prepare the journal entry to record the income tax expense (also called the income tax provision) including the deferred tax benefit/liability due to book-tax differences.