There are four key financial statements your company may have: a balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and statement of owners' or shareholders' equity (retained earnings). A balance ...

Business decisions are often driven by data, so the accuracy and reliability of financial statements are paramount. One misstep in financial reporting can have far-reaching consequences, eroding ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, ...

Financial statements are essentially the report cards for businesses. They tell the story, in numbers, about the financial health of the business. The information found on the financial statements of ...

Financial statements comprise three important written records: the cash flow statement, the income statement and the balance sheet. Companies furnish financial statements to provide information on ...

All publicly traded companies are required to release financial statements quarterly so investors can get a sense of how the business is doing. There are three main financial statements investors ...

IN CERTAIN INSTANCES CPAs SHOULD CONSIDER preparing and reporting on financial statements using an “other comprehensive basis of accounting” (OCBOA). Tax-basis and cash-basis, including ...

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 ...

When you apply for business funding, lenders and investors want to ensure they won’t lose money on your venture. That’s why bringing detailed financial statements to your pitch meeting is crucial.

We (Kim, Muhn and Nikolaev) examine to what extent general-purpose large language models (LLM) such as GPT4 can make informed financial decisions based on mostly numerical financial data. We provide ...