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What is Quality of Earnings?

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A Quality of Earning report, also called a QOE or QofE report, helps investors understand the historic earnings and forward-looking performance of the business through rigorous financial analysis. Financial audits do not weigh in on the outlook of the company—a Quality of Earnings Report does.

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Small Business CFO's: Do You Need One?

Boston Startup CFO

The auditors uncovered a horrific mistake that the previous accountant didn’t catch: We were accounting for our revenue completely wrong (non-GAAP) and we had to re-state our financials, something you never want to do in your business. Look at Groupon!). Two years, 60 employees and $8.6

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

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For instance, I have always computed the present value of lease commitments in future years and treated that value as debt, a practice that IFRS and GAAP have adopted in 2019, but that computation requires explicit disclosures of lease commitments in future years.