Strategic Business Tax Planning, Second Edition is the definitive handbook on business tax planning, skipping the unnecessary and minute taxation details and focusing instead on the big picture in taxes. Organized around business processes, this reader-friendly guide shows you how to optimally put tax management principles to work in your business.

Business decision-makers need to think bottom line--and that means after taxes. Drawing upon more than fifty years of professional experience between them, authors and tax experts John Karayan and Charles Swenson deftly show managers how to get to the bottom line without getting bogged down in the details of taxes.

A corporate guide to understanding the basic tax implications of everyday business Organized to cover the tax implications of transactions as they occur through a company's life cycle, the basic principles of tax management are applied through the use of case studies that simulate a variety of real-world marketplace conditions. Value-added and financial reporting effects of tax management are discussed, as well as country-specific tax rules, and cross-border transactions. John E. Karayan, JD, PhD (Glendale, CA), is a professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is also a partner in the law firm of Bond Karayan. Charles W. Swenson, PhD (Pasadena, CA), is a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he teaches a number of courses in accounting and taxation. Over the years, financial professionals around the world have looked to the Wiley Finance series and its wide array of bestselling books for the knowledge, insights, and techniques that are essential to success in financial markets. As the pace of change in financial markets and instruments quickens, Wiley Finance continues to respond. With critically acclaimed books by leading thinkers on value investing, risk management, asset allocation, and many other critical subjects, the Wiley Finance series provides the financial community with information they want. Written to provide professionals and individuals with the most current thinking from the best minds in the industry, it is no wonder that the Wiley Finance series is the first and last stop for financial professionals looking to increase their financial expertise.

For investment banking, corporate finance, strategy consulting, money management or venture capital courses at the graduate level. Students benefit because the book provides a framework for understanding how taxation influences asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the form and content of contractual agreements. The revision features a stronger MBA perspective and emphasis on student learning. This is achieved by integrating the tax law with fundamentals of corporate finance and microeconomics. In addition, the second edition focuses more clearly on the economic consequences of alternative contractual arrangements than on the precise tax laws governing the arrangements.

For MBA students and graduates embarking on careers in investment banking, corporate finance, strategy consulting, money management, or venture capital Through integration with traditional MBA topics, Taxes and Business Strategy, Fifth Edition provides a framework for understanding how taxes affect decision-making, asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the financial and operational structure of firms. Teaching and Learning Experience This program presents a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students: *Use a text from an active author team: All 5 authors actively teach the tax and business strategy course and provide students with relevant examples from both classroom and real-world consulting experience. *Teach students the practical uses for business strategy: Students learn important concepts that can be applied to their own lives. *Reinforce learning by using in-depth analysis: Analysis and explanatory material help students understand, think about, and retain information.

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. For MBA students and graduates embarking on careers in investment banking, corporate finance, strategy consulting, money management, or venture capital Through integration with traditional MBA topics, Taxes and Business Strategy, Fifth Edition provides a framework for understanding how taxes affect decision-making, asset prices, equilibrium returns, and the financial and operational structure of firms. Teaching and Learning Experience This program presents a better teaching and learning experience–for you : Use a text from an active author team: All 5 authors actively teach the tax and business strategy course and provide you with relevant examples from both classroom and real-world consulting experience. Learn the practical uses for business strategy: Learn important concepts that can be applied to your life. Reinforce learning by using in-depth analysis: Analysis and explanatory material help you understand, think about, and retain information.

Examining more than 50 tax-advantaged territories around the world, PLI's Langer on Practical International Tax Planning gives you the current knowledge and savvy advice you need to help clients capitalize on ripe tax havens and financial centers.