Homework Partnership Tax Year and Limited Liability Partnerships Please respond to the following: --The IRC restricts the choices for a partnership‘s tax year to prevent the deferral of tax. This causes most partnerships to adopt a calendar year for tax reporting. From the e-Activity, create a scenario using a fiscal tax year which allows a partnership to defer taxes that meet the requirements of Sections 706 and 444 of the IRC. --As discussed in the text, large accounting firms and other professional firms operate as limited liability partnerships (LLPs). Contrast the LLP form of business under state laws to the LLP for tax purposes. Next, suggest the major reasons why a new entity would choose an LLP over a traditional partnership for tax purposes. [350 words -- 1-2 references] ANOVA Instead of looking at the difference between population means, ANOVA (analysis of variance) calculates the variance between population means ANOVA Sample pop. 1 Sample pop. 2 Sample pop. 3 H0: μ1 = μ2 = μ3 ANOVA Calculating ANOVA is different than calculating t-tests How much sampling error do we expect under H0? (i.e., how much should our sample(s) vary just by chance?) How do we calculate the equivalent of the standard error? t-tests Observed difference in sample means Expected difference in pop. means ANOVA Observed variance in sample means Expected variance in pop. means ANOVA Rock Country Classical Mclassical 16.4 Mrock 6.0 Mcountry 10.8 Moverall 11.07 Under H0, all of these scores come from the same H0 distribution with M = 11.07. Based on the spread of each group, does that seem likely? Under H0, all of these scores come from the same H0 distribution with M = 11.07. Based on the spread of each set, does that seem likely? 3 Y-Values 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 14 8 1 3 4 5 7 11 13 18 7 16 17 20 22 Score ANOVA Rock Country Classical Mclassical 16.4 Mrock 6.0 Mcountry 10.8 Under H0, all of these scores come from the same H0 distribution with M = 11.07. Based on the spread of each group, does that seem likely? Moverall 11.07 Under H0, all of these scores come from the same H0 distribution with M = 11.07. Based on the spread of each set, does that seem likely? 4 Y-Values 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 3 7 8 10 6 10 11 12 15 13 14 15 19 21 Score ANOVA Rock Country Classical Mclassical 16.4 Mrock 6.0 Mcountry 10.8 Under H0, all of these scores come from the same H0 distribution with M = 11.07. Based on the spread of each group, does that seem likely? Moverall 11.07 Under H0, all of these scores come from the same H0 distribution with M = 11.07. Based on the spread of each set, does that seem likely? 5 Y-Values 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 8.8000000000000007 9.8000000000000007 10.8 11.8 12.8 14.4 15.4 16.399999999999999 17.399999999999999 18.399999999999999 Score ANOVA The amount of variation within each group contributes to the expected variance in population means Steps of hypothesis testing.