T-accounting is a method used by accountants and bookkeepers that gets its name from the T shape formed by the two columns used to record entries. Also called double-entry accounting, T-accounting ...

Financial accounting allows a business owner or manager to analyze hard data instead of random or inaccurate information. One way to express financial information is as a percentage, which lists the ...

Accounting errors will harm, or kill, a business. How is it companies from small enterprises to major international corporations are so often bedeviled by accounting problems, and how can they be ...

Like many CPAs who own a firm, I've been struggling with the pipeline problem for many, many years — this is nothing new. I don't think we need to do a lot of hand-wringing to figure out the problem, ...

Resident fellow Alex J. Pollock submits a letter of comment to the Securities and Exchange Commission and explains why the conceptual deficiencies of the fair value accounting theory make it a poor ...

Staff turnover, database changes, and a lack of written policies and procedures led to accounting problems at Arizona’s Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, a new audit shows. The audit, ...

Selling a practice is a life-changing event for most people. It means letting go and deciding to retire. It also means monetizing the practice that provided your living and added savings for your long ...

Is it me, or have recent business stories begun to resemble episodes of VH-1's "Behind the Music"? Think about it: Executives cook the books and make millions. They live fast and high on the company ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Cohan, a Boston-based senior contributor, covers stocks. This article is more than 6 years old. Disgraced Wall Street ...