Discover how black box accounting obscures financial reports. Learn about its methods, ethical concerns, and why it's a challenge for investors seeking transparency.

Equity accounting is a method of reporting a company's profits from the operations of an affiliated company that it has an interest in but does not own outright.

The IRS has issued new guidance on automatic accounting method changes. Revenue Procedure 2009-39 provides certain additions, modifications and clarifications to Revenue Procedures 2008-52 and 97-27 ...

The American Institute of CPAs has recommended to the IRS that taxpayers making an accounting method change for mischaracterized research and experimental expenditures under Code Section 174 should ...

Accrual accounting is one of the primary accounting methods and is based on the matching principle, which dictates that revenues and their associated expenses be recorded in the same accounting period ...

The IRS on Friday updated the list of changes in accounting method to which the automatic change procedures in Rev. Proc. 2015-13, as clarified and modified, apply (Rev. Proc. 2019-43). Any method of ...

Many contractors can build better cash flow using accounting options that until passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) were unavailable to them. Nevertheless, there remains a surprising number of ...

The article discusses 'Continuing Life Communities Thousand Oaks, LLC v. Commissioner', a recent decision of the Tax Court that rejected an IRS effort to change the method of accounting followed by a ...

Many retailers have used the LIFO (last in, first out) accounting method to manage their inventory reporting. The methods assumes that the last unit to arrive in inventory (the most recent) is sold ...

The Internal Revenue Service has issued new rules for obtaining its consent for a change in the method of accounting. Revenue Procedure 2011-14 provides the current procedures for obtaining automatic ...