The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released guidance aimed at clarifying the official definition of a “business” for purposes of the accounting rules. The new accounting standards update ...

In accounting, net worth is defined as assets minus liabilities. Essentially, it is a measure of what an entity is worth. For an individual, it represents the properties owned, less any debt the ...

The American Accounting Association is calling on the Department of Education to reverse course after proposing to remove ...

Business bookkeeping gets very complex, with divisions and subsidiaries requiring their own set of accounts. When the business accounting records are established, every account is titled and assigned ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in ...