Thomas Selling will give a talk at Arizona State University on how current financial reporting rules can discourage corporate investment in solar projects. The talk will explain partnership flip structures that maximize tax benefits for solar and wind projects through complex joint ventures, and the unintended consequences for solar investment that can result from these structures. Selling is an emeritus professor and visiting clinical professor who advises public companies on accounting standards and strategic decision making.

1. How Financial Reporting Rules Thwart
Corporate Investments in Solar Projects
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
12-1:15 p.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Arizona State University, Tempe campus
(Lunch will be served)
sustainability series
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Thomas Selling
Emeritus Professor, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Visiting Clinical Professor, Cox School of Business, SMU
To maximize the special tax benefits of solar (and wind) projects, investors
and producers participate in complex joint ventures known as “partnership
flip structures.” In this talk, Selling will explain the partnership flip structure
and the unintended consequences for solar investment that can result.
Selling is publisher and principal author of www.acountingonion.com, a blog
on financial reporting issues affecting public companies. He has led
hundreds of management and professional education programs and advises
public companies on SEC compliance, U.S. and international accounting
standards, operational and strategic decision making, and control of
international operations.