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Meet the Cash Flow Statement It's the least-known but perhaps most important report. The cash flow statement shows how much money a company is really making as it works through operations, makes investments, and borrows money. |
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April 26, 2004 |
How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings |
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November 1, 2010
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Special Issue 2005
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One World, One GAAP Global businesses and international investors are increasingly demanding accounting information that they can understand when running businesses and making investment decisions on a worldwide basis. |
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July 27, 2005
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Cracking the Accounting Code Financial statements are less confusing and more informative than you think. By learning to make sense of balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows, you can put some profitable ideas in your portfolio. |
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July 13, 2005
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Learn Accounting, Invest Better One of the most useful subjects to understand as an investor is financial accounting. |
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September 8, 2006
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Averting Revenue-Recognition Angst FASB and the IASB seek to allay worries over new rules for booking revenue. |
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Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance. |
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January 1, 2008
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Long Live the King? As international accounting standards close in on GAAP, the U.S. standard-setter considers its mortality. |
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December 30, 2005 |
Foolish Fundamentals: The Cash Flow Statement Investors, learn how cash gets from the income statement to the balance sheet. |
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March 29, 2006 |
The Best Course for Investors Your local community college might make you a better investor. Consider taking a course or two in accounting at a local college to boost your accounting knowledge. |
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January 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Which One When? A roundup of key accounting deadlines, developments, and detours to watch for in 2009. |
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July 2009
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FASB Waves Goodbye to "Qs" The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to eliminate the concept of qualified special purpose entities. |
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Promoting Transparency in Joint Venture Financial Reporting and Disclosure Joint venture arrangements have become an integral part of the business model of many real estate companies, and financial statement preparers and users have worked toward achieving a satisfactory level of transparency... |
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May 4, 2009
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Lease Accounting: Changes the IT Industry Should Know The FASB and its sister organization, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), are working jointly to develop a new model for the recognition of assets and liabilities arising under lease contracts. |
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October 4, 2004
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Fuzzy Numbers Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. Here's how the game is played. |
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Nanette Byrnes |
You May Be Liable For That Lease The Financial Accounting Standards Board review of lease accounting standards could really hammer retailers. |
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Key-Person Insurance: A Cash-Flow Caveat Classifying premiums paid on company-owned life insurance policies as an operating use of cash can distort operating and free cash flows, says a new study. |
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December 18, 2006
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Nice: Stock-Option Expensing SFAS 123R is here. No longer do investors and analysts have to go back and forth adjusting the results for a comparison basis. Stock options will be expensed. |
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April 5, 2004
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Accrual Accounting Explained It's important to understand how the companies you hold stock in are booking their sales. |
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October 22, 2008
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How Not to Solve the Credit Crisis One idea that some are pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt is for it to suspend mark-to-market accounting. This is not just a bad idea; it is a bad idea that sets a bad precedent. |
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June 1, 2008
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Principles vs. Practices A new study says chief financial officers think financial statements are too complex for the average investor. |
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September 23, 2004 |
Balance Sheet Basics Understanding the balance sheet can help you understand your investments. |
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October 1, 2007
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Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
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July 10, 2006 |
Financial Statements in Annual Reports Investors, if you want to learn to read annual reports, you'll need to make sense of the various financial reports they contain. Here are brief descriptions of the three biggies in every annual report. |
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Mark-to-Market Accounting: What You Should Know How does it work, and why is Congress pushing to suspend it? |
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October 1, 2010
Marie Leone |
One Size Gives Fits to All Financial executives say that proposed changes to revenue-recognition rules ignore real-world realities. |
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August 2004
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Out of Sight Stock options can stay off your balance sheet--for now. The Stock Option Accounting Reform Act seeks an economic impact study and provisions for small businesses. |
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September 1, 2008
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Fair-Value Revolution Historical cost accounting is fading as Corporate America marches into a new era. |
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These Stocks Are More Dangerous Than You Think New regulations could whip the rug out from under companies like these that have been abusing the use of operating leases. |
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October 18, 2006
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January 24, 2006 |
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Alternative Names on Financial Statements Investors, within financial statements, names for some items vary from one company to another. Sometimes, an income statement is a profit-and-loss statement. |
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Leasing Changes Afoot Spurred on by the SEC, the FASB is evaluating lease accounting standards with the intent to revise them. The key issue lies in the distinction between capital leases and operating leases. |
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May 1, 2008 |
Standards and Lack Thereof Readers write to say that "convergence" is a misnomer; consumer-driven health plans are a cost shift, not a cost control; the Web 2.0 world can expect to be downsized; small companies don't understand cash-flow statements; and more. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Russ Banham |
Pension Dissension FASB is championing a two-phase project that would provide guidance for gauging annual pension expenses on the income statement and disclose plan assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and in footnotes. CFOs protest. |
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November 7, 2006 |
Book Value Explained Book value is an accounting concept that reflects a company's value according to its balance sheet. However, it is not as useful to investors as you'd think. |
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FASB Hesitates, SEC Stands Still on Fair Value The banking industry wins a minor skirmish in the fair value war when the Financial Accounting Standards Board turned down a proposed amendment that would have expanded controversial fair value/mark-to-market practices in the financial sector. |
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September 1, 2006
Fink & Durfee |
Progress Report Could it be that finance executives really don't mind regulation? |
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November 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Sooner, Not Later Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) gives companies that sell bundled products a break on the timing of revenue recognition. |
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December 18, 2009
Stephen Mauzy |
Your Cash Flow Matters More Than You Think A few overlooked reasons why investors should focus on dividends. |
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June 3, 2005
Roy Lewis |
Tax Rules for Selling Mutual Funds What do you do when it's time to sell? |
