Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax Exempt Organizations or Multinational Finance

Tax Planning and Compliance for Tax-Exempt Organizations

Author: Jody Blazek

The 2008 Cumulative Supplement contains the following new updates:

• A significantly revised Form 990 must be used for the 2008 filing year. That means calendar year organizations should now begin the process of gathering the enhanced data requested on the schedules and parts of the core form.

• Impact of Pension Protection Act: The past year or so has been an amazingly difficult time for private foundations, donor-advised fund sponsors, supporting organizations, and their advisors. It feels like 1970 all over again as funders revise procedures and struggle with dissatisfied grantees they are told they cannot fund– particularly when the foundation has previously pledged to do so. Revised grant checklists in Chapter 17 should be used to assure the new issues are considered.

• For PFs, the excise tax on "investment" income considered in Chapter 13 was expanded to include capital gains on exempt function assets– an oxymoron that causes confusion.

• Congress split Type III supporting organizations (SO) into two types that are now identified as either non-functionally integrated with the public charities it supports and simply provides grants or holds assets for its supported charities(y) or functionally integrated because it performs the functions of those it supports. The complexities are found in Chapter 11.

• Private foundation-like operational constraints were placed on donor-advised funds and Type III supporting organizations. Prohibitions against excess business holdings (Chapter 16) and transactions benefiting insiders (Chapter 20) were imposed.

• Lastly, readers are reminded thata PF grant to non-functionally integrated Type III supporting organizations is no longer treated as qualifying distributions effective the date after the legislation was signed into law (August 17, 2006). This overnight change placed a burden on the SOs that can no longer receive funding and the PFs that were not informed of the rules in timely fashion. Exhibit 17.2A provides a grant checklist that is revised to include the new standards and Exhibit 17.2B provides a certification an SO can provide to a private foundation to prove it is a Type I, II, or III functionally integrated supporting organization a payment to which can be counted as a qualifying distribution. The Form 4720 illustrated in Chapter 18 contains a disclosure of failure to meet this requirement with a request for abatement of any penalties associated with the PF’s actions.

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Multinational Finance

Author: Kirt C Charles Butler

MULTINATIONAL FINANCE provides a concise treatment of the investment and financial decisions facing the multinational corporation. The text provides a framework for evaluating the opportunities, costs and risks of multinational operations so readers can see beyond the algebra and terminology to general principles. It is distinguished by its logical organization, superior pedagogy, and clear, non-technical writing style. It includes the traditional international finance topics of foreign exchange, currency and derivatives markets, currency risk (transaction, operating and translation) management, country risk, taxation, capital structure, cost of capital, and international portfolio diversification. It also has unique chapters on multinational treasury management, options on real assets, corporate governance, asset pricing, and international portfolio management.

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Intended for MBA and advanced undergraduate classes, this text requires only an introductory course in finance. The author, a professor of finance at Michigan State U., addresses basic issues of multinational finance including foreign exchange and exchange rate determination, the multinational corporation's investment and financial decisions, derivative securities for currency risk management, and international capital markets and portfolio investment. This edition emphasizes corporate finance and includes new chapters on risk measurement and management. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Overview and Background	1
Ch. 1	An Introduction to Multinational Finance	2
Ch. 2	World Trade and the International Monetary System	29
Pt. 2	The International Financial Environment	55
Ch. 3	International Financial Markets	56
Ch. 4	Foreign Exchange, Eurocurrencies, and Currency Risk Management	87
Ch. 5	The International Parity Conditions	121
Ch. 3	Derivative Securities for Currency Risk Management	155
Ch. 6	Currency Futures and Futures Markets	156
Ch. 7	Currency Options and Options Markets	181
Ch. 8	Currency Swaps and Swaps Markets	217
Pt. 4	Managing the Risks of Multinational Operations	241
Ch. 9	The Rationale for Hedging Currency Risks	242
Ch. 10	Multinational Treasury Management	265
Ch. 11	Managing Transaction Exposure to Currency Risk	287
Ch. 12	Managing Operating Exposure to Currency Risk	313
Ch. 13	Managing Translation Exposure to Currency Risk	333
Ch. 14	Country Risk Management	357
Pt. 5	Valuation and the Structural of Multinational Operations	379
Ch. 15	Cross-Border Capital Budgeting	380
Ch. 16	Multinational Capital Structure and Cost of Capital	407
Ch. 17	Taxes and Multinational Corporate Strategy	439
Ch. 18	Real Options and Cross-Border Investment	461
Ch. 19	Corporate Governance and the International Market for Corporate Control	489
Pt. 6	International Portfolio Investment and Asset Pricing	523
Ch. 20	International Portfolio Diversification	524
Ch. 21	International Asset Pricing	561
Ch. 22	Managing an International Investment Portfolio	591
	Glossary	625
	Name Index	641
	Subject Index	647