Every business has an accountant who prepares financial statements on a regular basis. Management, creditors and stockholders use these statements to gauge the performance of the company and make ...

Natalya Yashina is a CPA, DASM with over 12 years of experience in accounting including public accounting, financial reporting, and accounting policies. Amanda Bellucco-Chatham is an editor, writer, ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, ...

IN CERTAIN INSTANCES CPAs SHOULD CONSIDER preparing and reporting on financial statements using an “other comprehensive basis of accounting” (OCBOA). Tax-basis and cash-basis, including ...

Financial statements are financial data documents a company publishes on an annual, biannual, quarterly or monthly basis. These documents include the company's net worth based on assets and ...

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The new book, The Rule of 72, by forensic accounting expert, John Del Vecchio, offers a good refresher on the basic principles of successful investing in the first half, but the second half contains ...

Sometimes, an income statement is a profit-and-loss statement. Within financial statements, names for some items vary from one company to another. (Heck, even the names of the financial statements ...