David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.

When a company is making capital budgeting decisions -- whether it's something as small as buying a new copier vs. servicing an old one or as big as entering a new market -- it must weigh the expected ...

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Net present value (NPV) represents the difference between the present value of cash inflows and outflows over a set time period. Knowing how to calculate net present value can be useful when choosing ...

Small business owners frequently make decisions about how to invest money to increase profitability. Part of being a good business manager is the ability to analyze the income potential of long-term ...

Now I (sort of) understand why so many homeowners are in loan modification hell. This Dante's Housing Crisis Inferno has been fanned by the introduction of a simple calculation: the NPV. What's the ...