New IRS tax law focuses on top paid coaches

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According to Accounting Today, highly paid college sports coaches (and some hospital executives) are are targets of a 21 percent excise tax by the IRS if these nonprofit employees receive $1 million or more in salary. Questions: What is the big loophole in the law? Who pays the tax? Employee or nonprofit organization? What is… Read more »

Monte Carlo Simulation

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According to Business Insider, some CEO pay plans are so complicated that a powerful mathematical technique originally developed to understand the behavior of neutrons in an atom bomb explosion is now the most effective way to estimate what they are actually worth. Questions: Where did the inspiration for the Monte Carlo simulation come from (according… Read more »