Interpreting the financial health of a corporation requires an understanding of its financial statements. The three main ones are balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements. All are ...

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 ...

Income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements. If you're running a business, you probably have some knowledge of basic financial statements and how to use them. But do you know why ...

A ratio of debt to equity is calculated by dividing total debt by the amount of shareholders' equity, found near the bottom ...

Audited financial statements are independent CPA evaluations costing thousands. They include balance sheets, cash flow, ...

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 ...

PennantPark Investment Corp (NYSE:PNNT), a business development company with a market capitalization of $438 million and a P/E ratio of 9.28, has announced an issue with the financial statements of JF ...

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

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...