Executive Summary

Yuan Chou is a Managing tax director in the Greater Washington, D.C. office where he focuses on core tax accounting methods such as the timing of income recognition and deductions, depreciation, and leasing issues. Yuan is one of the firm’s technical resources with respect to the accounting method change issues arising out of the new ASC 606 revenue recognition standard implementation, treatment of transaction costs relating to mergers and acquisitions, the Tangible Property Regulations, and the section 199 domestic production activities deduction.

As a member of the Tax Accounting Methods Practice in BDO’s National Tax Office, Yuan regularly consults with BDO professionals, their clients, and Alliance Firm members nationwide. Yuan has written articles for The Tax Adviser and other publications.

Prior to joining BDO in August 2007, Yuan was with PricewaterhouseCoopers for eight years, where he primarily worked in the Federal Tax Services group of PwC’s Washington National Tax Services office.