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.

Some companies make investments in complementary businesses to achieve revenue goals or to gain access to different industries. When a company purchases a minority stake in another, the purchaser ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued an accounting standards update making it easier for companies to transition to the equity method of accounting. Stakeholders told FASB that the ...

The cost and equity methods of accounting are used by companies to account for investments they make in other companies. In general, the cost method is used when the investment doesn't result in a ...

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 ...

The more we consider what the Financial Accounting Standards Board accomplished with SFAS 159, the more we're warming up to the sea change it represents. This standard, titled "The Fair Value Option ...

FASB proposed a standard Tuesday that would clarify the interaction between its standard on recognition and measurement of financial instruments and its standard on equity method investments. In 2016, ...

Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases with ...

Everything you need to know answering what is equity, home, owner’s, stock and shareholder equity and how to calculate equity. Equity is the value of an asset minus its liabilities. And while there ...

More than a few eyebrows were raised in August when the news broke that TowerBrook Capital Partners had struck a deal to purchase an ownership interest in EisnerAmper LLP, the first such deal between ...