Preparing for a Sales and Use Tax Audit: Part 2

In Part One of this series, we discussed the initial contact with the auditor in response to the notification of your upcoming audit. In Part Two, we will cover two of the main areas that the auditor will be examining to find errors in tax filings:  use tax payments on purchases and collections of sales tax on your own sales.

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Income Statement Breakdown (Part 4): Finding the Bottom Line

We’ve been taking apart the income statement to help you better understand it and so that you can find money-saving, profit-increasing opportunities inside of it. This is the fourth and final step in the process and here we are getting close to the bottom line!

So far we’ve…

• Looked at Revenues and came away with Net Sales
• Looked at Cost of Goods Sold (either accrual or cash-based) and came away with Gross Profit
• Looked at Operating Expenses and came away with Net Profit

But those are not the only people who have their hand in the cash register! Let’s not forget banks and the government. In this fourth and final section of the income statement breakdown, we need to make sure they get their share.

Like the other sections, you add up the various expenses you have here and subtract it from Net Profit. This section is sometimes called “Non-Operating Expenses”. If you have shareholders, some of their payouts go here, too.

Now let’s look at this part of the income statement and we’ll compare how the accrual and cash-based system work so you can see both in action:

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