Discover how accruals affect company finances, with insights into the accrual accounting method, its applications, and examples illustrating its principles.

There are a lot of things people don’t know about the accounting profession. To a certain extent, that’s fine — if they knew how to create a financial statement or prepare a complex tax return, they ...

In the years since FAS 141 (now codified as ASC 805, "Business Combinations") was implemented in 2001, the vast majority of business combinations have resulted in the recognition of goodwill or have ...

Accounting has a reputation for being staid, traditional and slow to adopt new technologies. But is this true? No. In fact, I would argue that technology is transforming accounting—and in an equally ...