Successful businesses commonly encounter opportunities to grow through acquisitions -- by buying up competitors or other businesses. When your business acquires a controlling stake in another, ...

Managing the financial accounts for one company is tough. If your business invests in another business, keeping the books becomes even more complicated. If, say, you buy one of your suppliers, do you ...

Finances are the lifeblood of every company, and financial consolidation and reporting tend to be difficult, tedious, and prone to error. Thankfully, there is now ...

A standard issued by FASB on Wednesday is designed to improve targeted areas of consolidation guidance for certain legal entities and make financial statements more relevant for users. The guidance ...

FASB addressed an area of accounting that has long been a concern for private companies Wednesday with the issuance of a standard designed to improve consolidation accounting for private companies.

NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) intended to improve targeted areas of consolidation guidance for ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Andy Smith is ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update to improve specific areas of consolidation guidance for legal entities such as limited partnerships, limited ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released an accounting standards update Wednesday for the consolidation of variable interest entities, aiming to reduce the cost and complexity of accounting ...

Last week BDO confirmed that it was going to convert from an entity organized as a limited liability partnership under state law to one organized as a corporation. With that, BDO became the latest in ...

WASHINGTON Many companies with deep pockets can get deals done. But making an acquisition work as companies are integrated especially multiple acquisitions in quick succession is far tougher, says ...

Debt consolidation can simplify your payments, but it isn't always the cost-cutting solution borrowers expect.