Listings for Accounting (15)
Measuring Costs
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 11, 2011
Measuring profits or net income is the most important thing accountants do. The second most important task is measuring costs. Costs are extremely important to running a business and managing them eff...
Parts of an Income Statement, part 1
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 11, 2011
The first and most important part of an income statement is the line reporting sales revenue. Businesses need to be consistent from year to year regarding when they record sales. For some busine...
Parts of an Income Statement, Part 2
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 11, 2011
Of course profit and cost of goods sold expense are the two most critical components of an income statement, or at least they're what people will look at first. But an income statement is truly the su...
Parts of an Income Statement, Part 3
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 11, 2011
While some lines of an income statement depend on estimates or forecasts, the interest expense line is a basic equation. When accounting for income tax expense, however, a business can use different a...
How to analyze a financial statement
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 11, 2011
It's obvious financial statement have a lot of numbers in them and at first glance it can seem unwieldy to read and understand. One way to interpret a financial report is to compute ratios, which mean...
What is earnings per share
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 10, 2011
Publicly owned companies must report earnings per share (EPS) below the net income line in their income statements. This is mandated by generally accepted accounting practices (GAAP). The EPS gives in...
What is price/earnings ratio
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 10, 2011
The price/earning (P/E) ratio is another measurement that's of particular interest to investors in public businesses. The P/E ratio gives you an idea of how much you're paying in the current price for...
What’s the difference between private and public company reporting
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 10, 2011
A public corporation is a business whose securities are traded on the public stock exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. A private company is held solely by its owners and is not ...
What are other ratios used in financial reporting
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 10, 2011
The dividend yield ratio tells investors how much cash income they're receiving on their stock investment in a business. This is calculated by dividing the annual cash dividend per share by the ...
What is acid test ratio and ROA ratio?
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Category: Accounting | Listed: July 10, 2011
Investors calculate the acid test ratio, also known as the quick ratio or the pounce ratio. This ratio excludes inventory and prepaid expenses, which the current ratio includes, and it limits assets t...
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