Taxes become deferred when a company's financial accounting methods are different than the acceptable tax accounting methods. This creates a discrepancy between the general ledger and the amounts ...

Deferred revenue, also known as unearned revenue, is income received by a business for goods or services not yet rendered. Although revenue is considered an asset (cash is always an asset), deferred ...

Deferred Income Annuities (DIAs) are a simplistic transfer of risk solution for lifetime income guarantees with payments starting at a future date. Deferred Income Annuities (DIAs) should be used for ...

Amid all the cooling in the annuity development space, one area is picking up steam: deferred-income annuities, or longevity insurance. On Monday, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced the ...

Let’s start with the obvious: We’re in a low-interest-rate environment, and according to the Fed, we’re going to be here for a number of years. With 10-year Treasuries yielding about 0.75%, building ...

Deferred compensation allows individuals to delay receiving part of their income until a future date, often during retirement. This strategy is appealing for retirement savings and tax management, as ...

Deferred Income Annuities (aka: Longevity Annuities or the acronym DIAs) are the product type that should dominate annuity sales in a perfect world. If all commissions for all annuity types were the ...