Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trump's $250M fraud trial hinges on whether he followed generally accepted accounting principles. In an effort to keep our readers ...

In this Motley Fool Answers video, Alison Southwick and Robert Brokamp welcome Dylan Lewis, host of Industry Focus: Tech, to the show to offer his thoughts on the difference between the profit and ...

While gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy pledged repeatedly to dive into a new budgeting system based on honesty and transparency within moments of taking office, Governor Malloy waded more gradually ...

A growing number of Wall Street experts have become increasingly critical of companies highlighting adjusted earnings. Also known as non-GAAP, these adjusted earnings are repeatedly being used to ...

IMGCAP(1)]The regulatory focus has sharpened recently on non-GAAP measures, by which I mean financial metrics, presented by companies outside the audited financial statements, that do not conform to ...

Last year I wrote about the hazards of “non-GAAP disclosure creep,” which can occur as companies become increasingly aggressive with their use of non-GAAP financial measures or simply become bogged ...

Accountants report your business operations as assets, income, debt and liabilities. Company debt and liabilities offset income and, when at least some of your assets include equipment or real estate, ...

In this article, the WSJ reports on new data, prepared for the WSJ by Audit Analytics, showing how faithfully companies have conformed their disclosures to the recent guidance from the Corp Fin staff ...

We’ve been sounding the alarm on non-GAAP earnings for several years now. Companies exploited the wide leeway granted by the SEC to present their business in a more favorable light. What was ...

All companies keep records of their finances through accounting. However, there are several different methods of accounting that a small business can use. Two of the accounting methods that businesses ...