Companies must produce a series of financial statements to provide information on the their activities, net worth and viability. There are three main financial statements maintained by companies and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. David ...

Over the years, companies have relied on alternative performance measures (APMs) such as “adjusted earnings” or “underlying profit” to provide investors additional financial information beyond IFRS or ...

Dorothy Neufeld is currently a financial writer for Visual Capitalist. She has 5+ years of writing experience. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a ...

Climate-related risk considerations are continuing to evolve for financial statements as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues receive increasing attention from investors and others who ...

A new study attempts to understand how financial statement auditors detect, resolve, and deal with the aftermath of material misstatements in companies’ financial statements. We often hear about ...