Job stability and stronger junior salaries are helping pull students back into accounting, said American Accounting ...

Accountants can use any one of three methods for calculating inventory value and cost to keep a business in compliance with accepted accounting standards. Each method can present different problems ...

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 ...

To Brett Whitaker and Mauro Botta the failings of the accounting industry aren't just a matter of alarming statistics or fears about a potential financial crisis. They're personal. Both tried to raise ...

Show me an entrepreneur who says they’ve never encountered an accounting problem and I’ll show you a liar. That may sound a bit extreme, but the point is simple: from a lost invoice to overlooked ...

COLONIE - Roughly a year after disclosing that it had made unintentional errors on its financial filings with federal regulators over a period of several years, fuel cell maker Plug Power has fired ...

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 ...

The Internal Revenue Service has been working to resolve a problem that was preventing businesses and tax professionals from using a new online portal to file their 1099 forms for free. The IRS opened ...

Last month, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) called for the Build Back Better infrastructure bill to be free of accounting gimmicks. More recently, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for a “stop in the ...

IMGCAP(1)]Whenever I meet a new accountant, I always ask them, “Does your firm have a department specializing in Space Accounting?” It is surprising to me when they respond with expressions of ...

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 ...