Financial accounting isn't just a matter of writing down numbers in a ledger and forgetting about them. You can use financial accounting information in your business to help measure your company's ...

Financial indicators of business performance allow you to compare different business types. You can define operating objectives for your company, but such objectives differ for companies in different ...

Financial analysis is an aspect of the overall business finance function that involves examining historical data to gain information about the current and future financial health of a company.

In his Executive Compensation column, Joseph E. Bachelder III discusses recent developments in Economic Value Added (a measure of a business enterprise's economic performance), how the EVA formula ...

For a financial performance measure to be good, it should generally rise when good things happen and decline when bad things happen. And it should motivate high-quality decision-making. This may seem ...

This spreadsheet uses Schedule F information (net cash income or net cash profit), and beginning and ending balance sheets to compute accrual net farm income, and key financial ratios and repayment ...

This book is the result of a partnership organized by the World Bank, that includes the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and three private sector partners (the ...

Figure 1: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith; Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, and Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki Tired of anecdotal accounts of management performance? Or ...