Using standard accounting methods benefits any small business. For those looking to level up their financial reporting, adopting generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) can unlock new ...

When a public company issues a financial statement, everything needs to be clear and well-understood by everyone reading it. To ensure this, it’s paramount to have a baseline for reporting. That’s ...

What Are Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)? Your email has been sent Understanding GAAP is essential for anyone involved in finance or accounting. Learn the key principles and their ...

Generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, serve as guidelines for businesses large and small in reporting financial information to outsiders. GAAP's objective is to guarantee that current or ...

GAAP accounting stands for generally accepted accounting principles. These principles are a set of standardized rules that accountants use. Companies that sell public stock and release financial ...

When you read financial statements, you may see GAAP vs. non-GAAP figures reported. All public companies in the U.S. are required to use generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Financial ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued FASB Statement No. 162, "The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles," intended as a replacement for the American Institute of CPAs' ...

Purpose: To provide an overview of the fundamentals for basic fund accounting and the financial reporting structure within the context of higher education accounting, Generally Accepted Accounting ...

Accounting is vital to a business’s financial hygiene; here’s everything entrepreneurs need to know about it. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

This column presents most of our comment letter to the Financial Accounting Standards Board concerning its exposure draft on accounting for pensions and other post-retirement benefit plans. The draft ...

In a prior article, I wrote about the appeal of counting the Federal Government as a customer, because of the size of the government’s budget, as well as its creditworthiness. In that article, I ...