The advantages of accounting standards become obvious to small business owners when they clearly see the health and performance of their company through simple financial data. When recording ...

Like most businesses, Hampton-based utility holding company Unitil Corporation has been facing ever-increasing costs for its employees’ retirement plans. And like most businesses, Unitil also has to ...

Although no one knows when double-entry accounting first emerged, but Italian mathematician and Franciscan friar Luca Pacioli wrote the first codified system describing the technique in the late 1400s ...

As with other financial decisions, choosing the right accounting software for your business requires carefully weighing the benefits and risks. You may decide that you don’t need accounting software ...

Learn how accounting-based incentives reward executives, explore their benefits and potential risks, and how they align executive and shareholder interests.

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Let’s set the scene. A privately held company’s longtime controller gives notice. With only one other accounting person on staff, the owner is left scrambling for a fix until a new controller can be ...

If we could impart one reality to our small business clients, it’s this: if you’re not intimately in touch with your business’s financial health, you’re leaving money on the table. Period. It’s ...

The impact of AI on accounting has been real and rapid. That said, it hasn’t been the disruptive force it’s made out to be in ...