Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases with ...

Phil Whitman of Whitman Business Advisors offers a primer on what the entry of PE money into the accounting profession means for firms. Welcome to On the Air with Accounting Today. I'm editor in chief ...

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 ...

In August 2021, the New York-based Top 25 Firm launched a new era in the accounting profession when it announced that it had taken on a groundbreaking strategic investment from PE firm TowerBrook ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Private-equity investors are circling accounting firms as ...

Stakeholders in a business need a way to conveniently assess the financial position of the firm. The balance sheet is a document designed to do just that. It provides a concise summary of everything a ...

Private equity is a unique, unregistered, nonpublic financial security that is speculative in nature but has the potential to be beneficial to both investors and the businesses that issue it. Some ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a new Accounting Standards Update to address growing confusion over what qualifies as a derivative under U.S. GAAP. The move responds to concerns ...