Merchant accounts that chain you to a physical location are for dinosaurs. You should be able to do business whenever you want, wherever you want, and take your merchant account with you. Wireless technology is evolving rap...

Who created accounting principles? Who sets and revises accounting standards? What if you don’t follow all the rules, do you go to jail? Is there an accounting police force that investigates and arrests violators? It would seem ...

When you file for bankruptcy, a lot of people will tell you that re-establishing credit will take years. They'll also warn you that you'll be unable to buy anything on credit for a long time, and that your credit history will be...

Accounting records form the basis for several internal statements used in Management Information Systems. That is why, all managers need to have adequate knowledge of accounting principles.

The following article is about understanding accounting vocabulary.

The following article is an excerpt from the free online course "Using Finance and Accounting in Your Small Business".

The Capitalization Table provides investors with a bird's eye view of the sum total of all the different securities issued by a company. It includes the amount of investment that the company has procured from investors and the d...

Does your company post a profit? Even with profits, cash flow is an entire different animal. Often ignored, but of great importance to the operations of any business, cash flow monitoring is the best test to determine whether yo...

Launching and incorporating a business in the United States has never been easier for an investor, entrepreneur or business owner that is not a citizen of the United States. This article describes the benefits of a non-US citiz...

Along with the income statement and statement of cash flows the balance sheet is one of the three primary financial statements used by businesses to evaluate the financial health of a company.

Without the use of purchase orders within an organization expenses can quickly get out of control. The use of such a form allows you to know exactly what is purchased when and by whom.

All public companies and many private companies as well, undergo an annual financial statement audit; the culmination of which is an audit report. The audit report gives an opinion of an outside accountant on the overall financi...

Many companies generate and keep historical financial statements, but very few develop a working set of pro forma financials. Pro Forma financial statements are designed to give you a look at the projected, future financial stat...

With so many bad things happening in our society today, it is important to obtain safety measure needed to protect our lives, our business, or simply the things we own...

The water may be your element. You may find the sea quite stirring yet in here you find your own serenity. Yes, the mere sight of the vast sea may stir in you quite a number of various emotional responses...