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More businesses are beginning to accept cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, as a form of payment in addition to more traditional methods such as cash and credit card. Properly accounting for ...

GAAP standards provide uniform financial reporting, critical for investors and auditors comparing companies. Non-GAAP results adjust GAAP figures to highlight specific financial aspects, but they ...

The GAAP approves four different methods for depreciating business assets: the straight-line method, the units of production method, the declining balance method and the sum-of-the-year's-digits ...

In the area of fixed assets and the resultant depreciation there are some major differences between the GAAP rules codified in ASC Topic 360 and the IFRS rules in IAS 16. In GAAP there is only one way ...

At times, accounting regulations may seem confusing and you may wonder how to categorize certain expenses. For example, what exactly is the definition of a capital expenditure under GAAP guidelines or ...

Is a company making profit or a loss? It’s undoubtedly an important question in the minds of managers, investors, bankers, and boards of directors (investors would like to buy shares of, and banks ...

If you read FactSet's "Earnings Insight" this weekend (and I highly recommend you read it every weekend), you will see John Butters focused on the "GAAP vs. Non-GAAP" earnings debate, which surfaces a ...

In our last coverage of PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) we opined that things were setting up for a longer-term entry point, but we were not quite there yet. While the bulls saw a compelling buy ...

Knowing GAAP accounting principles will help you understand why your accountant does the things they do. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...