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Updated Accounting Standards for In-Kind Donations (2022)

The Charity CFO

If your nonprofit uses donations of supplies, services, and even time to help fund your operations, you need to know about recent changes in accounting standards for in kind donations. So now is the perfect time to make sure you report in kind gift donations in compliance with GAAP standards in 2022. Get the free guide!

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5 Steps to Prepare your Organization for a Financial Audit

E78 Partners

This is not just because of the intricacies and specificities required by the auditing standards but also due to the numerous challenges faced by organizations in the run-up to an audit. Furthermore, in an era of intricate financial landscapes, preparing for compliance with complex accounting standards becomes non-negotiable.

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What is Net Book Value?

The Finance Weekly

This measure is a direct product of fair value reporting, a principle insisting that assets be reported at their market value, which forms the bedrock of financial reporting standards under US GAAP. Determining Eligibility for Depreciation To accurately apply depreciation, it is essential to first determine which assets are eligible.

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How is Goodwill Taxed When Selling a Business?

Michigan CFO

In accounting, indefinite lifespan refers to an asset where its rate of capital depreciation isn’t known or cannot be easily calculated. Using the goodwill valuation calculation above, we can easily see that the goodwill asset value of the T-Mobile/Sprint merger was $3.07 billion with liabilities of $45.56

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The End of Accounting? Sustaining Financial Reporting

CFA Institute

The explanatory power of the financial information reported to investors for market valuation has plummeted in recent decades.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

To illustrate, consider a practice in valuation, where analysts are trained to add a small cap premium to discount rates for smaller companies, on the intuition that they are riskier than larger companies. It is very likely that these rules of thumb were developed from data and observation, but at a different point in time.

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Parallel Accounting is a Key Tool for Global Companies with Multiple Reporting Requirements

Bramasol

One important side effect of the ongoing trend toward globalization is the need to comply with a range of different accounting principles as well as with disparate reporting and compliance mandates. They also likely will face different taxation structures for specific countries or even local jurisdictions.