Corporate finance

A tweet from President Trump has the commission looking at easing the burden on public companies.

The executive must attend to a close family member who has recently learned of significant health challenges, a spokeswoman says.

Touting figures may give companies a short-term boost, but often leads to a long-term drop.

Profs. Miller and Bahnson reprise an old column to take down an old proposal that's gained some new adherents.

Bullish, for now. That’s the takeaway from second-quarter earnings.

President Donald Trump brought a long-simmering debate on Wall Street to the surface Friday when he prodded regulators to look into scaling back how often publicly traded companies report financial results.

Corporate executives and their accountants have long contended that the use of adjusted earnings, which ignore costs like acquisition expenses, interest payments or just about anything they find inconvenient, gives investors a better picture of companies’ performance. Under no circumstances is it manipulation, they say. But a new study suggests it just might be.

Poor record-keeping meant the owner couldn’t document sales of non-marijuana merchandise.

Volkswagen AG’s Porsche sports car unit is under investigation by the Stuttgart tax office over the way it accounted for marketing and catering expenses during the past 8 years, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has companies facing the unusual problem of what to do with their extra money.