When a business issues shares of stock to the public, it needs to make several calculations to properly account for the transaction. First, it must determine what types of shares were issued. Then, ...

Maybern cofounders Ashwin Raghu and Ross Mechanic started the company in 2021 to automate the highly complex accounting calculations that plague investment firms. “It doesn't matter if you manage $50 ...

Learn what an amortization schedule is, its importance for loans and intangible assets, and how to calculate it using a simple formula.

Microsoft Office Excel was designed to support accounting functions such as budgeting, preparing financial statements and creating balance sheets. It comes with basic spreadsheet functionality and ...

Last year, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) provided private companies with an extra year to adopt lease accounting standard ASC 842. When this was announced, 63.8% of surveyed private ...

This article was written by Gregory van Droogenbroeck, CFA and Scott J. L. Coulter, CFA, CPA, CA for World Accounting Report. The International Financial Reporting Standard 9, or IFRS 9, represents ...

As a CPA, I've used spreadsheets as my go-to resource for work for a long time, whether for performing calculations, reconciling data or one-off project tracking. My family is familiar with my love of ...