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The GAAP approves four different methods for depreciating business assets: the straight-line method, the units of production method, the declining balance method and the sum-of-the-year's-digits ...

Explore OCBOA, a flexible non-GAAP accounting framework that includes tax-basis, cash-basis, and statutory accounting, offering an easier, cost-effective alternative for financial statements.

GAAP standards provide uniform financial reporting, critical for investors and auditors comparing companies. Non-GAAP results adjust GAAP figures to highlight specific financial aspects, but they ...

More businesses are beginning to accept cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, as a form of payment in addition to more traditional methods such as cash and credit card. Properly accounting for ...

The 2019 third quarter earnings season is approaching its end with over 400 S&P 500 companies having already reported results. A key part of these results for investors is the company’s earnings, and ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Accounting principles help hold a company’s financial ...

Many companies, large and small, offer a broad range of products and services to their customers. Often these product and service sales are negotiated at the same time with a single customer, ...

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Generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, serve as guidelines for businesses large and small in reporting financial information to outsiders. GAAP's objective is to guarantee that current or ...

It would be understandable if leaders of some private companies have not had the time to consider adopting the private company GAAP alternatives created by FASB’s Private Company Council (PCC).

Is a company making profit or a loss? It’s undoubtedly an important question in the minds of managers, investors, bankers, and boards of directors (investors would like to buy shares of, and banks ...