Corporate finance

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.

Randy Rupp, CEO of Top 100 Firm Rehmann, discusses how his firm is expanding its managed IT services practice.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department released new guidance Monday on computing the business interest expense limitation under the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Lloyd Doggett have proposed legislation in the House and Senate to ensure multinational companies pay the same tax rate on profits earned abroad as they do in the U.S., to counter some of the effects they claim from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that Republicans passed last December.

Corporate investment decisions must achieve a balance between short- and long-term performance objectives to sustain future growth.

The best-performing companies tightly integrate various components of financial planning and analysis, focusing on some key metrics to drive their financial results, according to a new report.

There are a lot of services that you offer to clients, but is corporate compliance one of them?

Whether its an in-house or outsourced group, technology staff are an often overlooked value-added service for clients.

LBMC has added W Squared, a Tennessee-based outsourcing company that offers finance, accounting, payroll, human resources, technology and procurement services, effective August 1.

Nonprofits are confronting a host of challenges, including the threat of spending cuts from the federal government that could severely tighten their budgets and ability to serve their communities.

Many companies may be engaging in revenue management, along with earnings management, to meet or beat analyst expectations, particularly in the technology and health care industries, according to a new study.

With the right tools and process control, most organizations don’t need to outsource their financial planning and analysis.

The ride-hailing app accounts for 52 percent of expenses in the ground transportation category and is now the most expensed vendor overall across categories.

Almost two-thirds of senior tax, finance and accounting executives in a recent poll said that they don’t think their jobs will be replaced by robots or technology.