Rich Mintzer’s new book, Start Your Own Pet Business, outlines everything you need to know about launching and growing an animal-based business from your home. In this excerpt, he dives into the specifics of managing your finances to keep your business as healthy and happy as your tail-wagging clients. Sign
The Financial Accounting Foundation, the group that oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, plans to improve free online access to both FASB and GASB accounting standards codifications for the general public, make them easier to use and eliminate the paid professional service. The systems
Accountants are gaining a bit more confidence in the global economy, especially in North America and Europe, but uncertainties linger, according to a new survey. The survey, released Thursday by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management Accountants, showed some signs of steadying confidence in the
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“Never spend your money before you have earned it,” Thomas Jefferson cautioned. It’s good advice for Corporate America, but only if companies know where the cash is, when it’s arriving and how much to expect. Solving this cash flow conundrum is on the minds of finance and accounting executives and
Jamaican Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt was shocked to discover $12 million missing from an account he had with Kingston-based investment firm Stocks and Securities Ltd., according to his lawyer. Bolt was recently told there was only about $12,000 remaining in the account, his lawyer Linton P. Gordon said in a
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen will soon need to use accounting maneuvers to keep the United States from defaulting on its debt.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Imagine this. John Carter begins his job as the country club’s new finance and administration director by reconciling its payroll journal entries with employee payroll logbooks provided by its payroll processor. It takes him weeks and distracts him from other important issues.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 223,000 in December and the unemployment rate ticked downward by two-tenths of a point to 3.5%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, but employment in accounting and bookkeeping services fell by 1,100 jobs. The relatively strong overall employment gains came despite a series of
As a relatively young practice area, CAS is still a fluid discipline — so fluid, in fact, that not everyone agrees on what CAS actually means, or what these practices consist of. There is widespread agreement, however, that it’s an extraordinarily profitable area, with growth rates that are often double