Accounting for stuff like office supplies is simple. You spend $50 on copier paper, and you record a $50 expense in your ledger. Purchasing fixed assets such as land, buildings or equipment is more ...

The following column is written by Andrew D. Galbraith, CFA, MBA, director with HealthCare Appraisers. With the increase in acquisition activity in the healthcare industry, buyers need to be aware of ...

Online shopping offers unrivaled convenience. With just a few clicks and a credit or debit card, you can buy anything from AirPods to Ziploc bags and have them delivered to your doorstep — sometimes ...

Back in the late 1990s, this column criticized those who supported pooling-of-interests accounting for business combinations. We called it "pfooling" because it was designed to trick the capital ...

Merchandise inventory is the goods and products that a business buys to resell to customers. When your small business buys merchandise from a supplier you must record the purchase in a journal entry ...

Bringing all of your Apple digital purchases under one account is now possible, but it can be a tricky process. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of ...

Any impact of BNSF's purchase accounting adjustment on BNSF's customers would be very limited. Since BNSF prices its services to the market and not based on regulatory costs, BNSF's prices are largely ...

Do you think your email on Gmail is private? If so, you may want to think again, as your Gmail messages are being scanned by Google for purchases, which are then displayed in your Google account. This ...