When you apply for business funding, lenders and investors want to ensure they won’t lose money on your venture. That’s why bringing detailed financial statements to your pitch meeting is crucial.

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Katrina Ávila Munichiello is an experienced editor, ...

What Else Do Financial Records Include? Other than the most common line items found in financial statements, investors can also read the lesser known items, such as the footnotes, which often contain ...

Business owners often use accounting to measure their company's financial performance. Accounting is responsible for recording and reporting a company's financial transactions. While business owners ...

Financial statements come in many shapes and sizes. The process of constructing financial statements is an art and a science geared towards communicating information clearly and accurately, and also ...

Income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements. If you're running a business, you probably have some knowledge of basic financial statements and how to use them. But do you know why ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. David ...

The Auditing Standards Board issued eight standards with new guidance for auditors assessing risks and controls in financial statement audits. Auditors must consider risk and also determine a ...

A written report of the financial condition of a firm. Financial statements include the balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in net worth and statement of cash flow. The first step in ...