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, ...

What Else Do Financial Records Include? Other than the most common line items found in financial statements, investors can also read the lesser known items, such as the footnotes, which often contain ...

Discover the synergy between income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements for a full analysis of a company's financial health and performance.

Companies must produce a series of financial statements to provide information on the their activities, net worth and viability. There are three main financial statements maintained by companies and ...

Amortization of a company's intangible assets can take as long as 40 years, depending on the types of assets disclosed on the company's financial statements. How these assets affect financial ...

Cash flow statements reveal money flow in/out of a business, divided into operations, investments, and financing. Operating cash flow reflects the cash transactions from core business activities. Free ...

In April 2004, FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) created a joint project on financial statement presentation. The project is part of the memorandum of understanding between ...

The International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation has published a set of near-final examples showing how companies can improve the reporting of uncertainties in their financial statements ...

Goulston & Storrs M&A attorney Dan Avery is a nationally recognized expert on M&A deal point trends. In partnership with Bloomberg Law, Dan has developed a series of 25 articles looking at these ...

Foreign private issuer is defined as an issuer organized outside the United States, excluding foreign governments, and does not include non-US issuers that have 50% or more us ownership residents and ...