Accountants often help companies prepare balance sheets for internal and external use. Balance sheets organize a company's financial data in a standardized manner that can be easily read and ...

A balance sheet is a company's financial big picture for a particular moment in time. Every financial decision a business makes will eventually land on the balance sheet but understanding how the ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. The balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow ...

Running a small business feels like juggling a dozen tasks at once. You are the CEO, marketer, salesperson, and janitor all ...

The Balance Sheet represents the financial position of the University and Business Areas at a particular point in time. The Balance Sheets are represented as Assets, Liabilities, and Equity/Fund ...

Previously, we discussed some ways to improve cash flow within a company. This evolved from a question that was posed by contractors on a message board regarding the difference between profits and ...

If your company leases real estate or equipment, proposed changes in lease accounting standards could add significant debt to your balance sheet, change the way your business is perceived by investors ...

For February 27, my forensic accounting needle in a haystack comes from an airline that early adopted a new accounting standard related to its operating leases. Analyst Peter Apockotos found an ...

Kristina Zucchi is an investment analyst and financial writer with 15+ years of experience managing portfolios and conducting equity research. Balance sheets are important financial statements that ...

In the previous issue, we republished a column from 2008 to help readers who might be confused or even baffled by the massive paradigm shift contained in the recent lease accounting exposure draft ...