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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The International Accounting Standards Board published a consultation document Wednesday with eight proposed illustrative examples showing how companies could apply International Financial Reporting ...

Investors around the world rely on financial statements to determine whether they should buy or sell equities. But how can they know if those statements are accurate? Now auditing firms like KPMG are ...

In today’s corporate environment, financial statements serve as the cornerstone of stakeholder decision-making. However, the increasing use of impression management techniques in financial reporting ...