If your company invests in another firm, whether it's to form a business alliance or just to make a profit, that investment must be accounted for on your balance sheet. Accounting rules dictate the ...

A life insurance customer needs to be able to predict how much a policy will cost her over a lifetime. Dividends -- partial refunds of premiums -- plus the amount the policy pays at death offset the ...

Plastics processors are fortunate to have several options for managing and calculating costs. In part one of this series, we discussed the benefits of a production profit contribution model. This ...

The Internal Revenue Service has now made it much easier for real estate developers across asset classes to benefit from the alternative cost method. It enables multi-unit developers to receive tax ...