On financial statements, your business income and your cash are not the same things. On the company income statement, accounts payable – the bills you haven't paid yet – is a negative entry, ...

Keeping track of your business's finances is one of the most important jobs you have as a business owner. Fortunately, there are several tools to help you with this task, including Microsoft Dynamics, ...

The key roles of procurement and finance departments are changing, morphing into a new, more integrated process. Not everybody is happy about the merging functions, but I think it's strange that ...

When you look at a company’s financial statements, you see a snapshot of its performance – sales figures, profit margins, and a long list of assets and liabilities. But how do you know if a company is ...

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