When one company has an interest in another company it has equity in that company. Under certain circumstances, the appropriate way for the company to account for that investment on its own books is ...

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 ...

FASB’s efforts to simplify accounting continued Tuesday, when the board issued a standard eliminating the requirement to retroactively adopt the equity method of accounting when an investment ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update making it easier for companies to transition to the equity method of accounting. Stakeholders told FASB that the ...

The more we consider what the Financial Accounting Standards Board accomplished with SFAS 159, the more we're warming up to the sea change it represents. This standard, titled "The Fair Value Option ...

The cost and equity methods of accounting are used by companies to account for investments they make in other companies. In general, the cost method is used when the investment doesn't result in a ...

FASB has issued guidance that enables companies to write off lingering gift card liabilities, shore up hedge accounting practice differences, and simplify transitions to equity method accounting.

For most investors, the proper way to account for your investing profits and losses is with the cost method of accounting. This method is not the only choice, however. For investments where the ...