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Credit Report Erased - Is It Possible?

Monday, June 30th, 2008 | Accounting, Budgeting, Credit Card Debt, Credit Cards with No Comments »

Getting your credit report erased is actually impossible. While you can have individual derogatory items erased from your credit report, you cannot get your whole credit report erased. Here is how to clean up your credit. When you begin the task of getting derogatory information on your credit report erased, the first thing you will need to get is a copy of your three credit reports. Before you can have errors erased, you first need to know if there are any, and if so… what the errors are. Getting your report is easy–the three major credit reporting bureaus, Experian, Equifax, and Transunion–are required by law to give you one free copy of your credit report each year. To order, visit Annual Credit Report online or phone 1-877-322-8228. You can also mail your request Read More This Post...

How to Analyze a Financial Statement

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 | Accounting, Budgeting, Business, Financial Statement with 1 Comment

It’s obvious financial statement have a lot of numbers in them and at first glance it can seem unwieldy to read and understand. One way to interpret a financial report is to compute ratios, which means, divide a particular number in the financial report by another. Financial statement ratios are also useful because they enable the reader to compare a business’s current performance with its past performance or with another business’s performance, regardless of whether sales revenue or net income was bigger or smaller for the other years or the other business. In order words, using ratios can cancel out difference in company sizes. There aren’t many ratios in financial reports. Publicly owned businesses are required to report just one ratio (earnings per share, or Read More This Post...

What’s the Difference Between Private and Public Company Reporting

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | Accounting, Company Reporting, Corporation, Investing and financing with No Comments »

A public corporation is a business whose securities are traded on the public stock exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. A private company is held solely by its owners and is not traded publicly. When the shareholders of a private business receive the periodical financial reports, they are entitled to assume that the company’s financial statements and footnotes are prepared in accordance with GAAP. Otherwise the president of chief officer of the business should clearly warn the shareholders that GAAP have not been followed in one or more respects. The content of a private business’s annual financial report is often minimal. It includes the three primary financial statements - the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. There’s Read More This Post...

Promoting Your Site On The Web

Friday, May 30th, 2008 | Accounting, Business, Corporation with No Comments »

I get a usefull information today about business online management. I’ll tell it for all of you here. Did you know that each cell site on cells or base station can generally handle up to four different tenants wireless? If you already have a cell site or seek to add to your property, the more you have any tenants, the most profitable wireless your lease. But without a means of research and contact the major carriers or site acquisition specialists, it can be an arduous task. You will need cell tower leases services. They will market your cell site to other tenants or promote other properties. When you join the cell tower leases services, they will include information about your property online in their database site, which is promoted by all major wireless carriers and more than a Read More This Post...

About GAAP

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 | Accounting with No Comments »

While many businesses assume that accountants are bound by generally accepted accounting practices and that these are inviolate, nothing could be further from the truth. Everything is subject to interpretation, and GAAP is no different. For one thing, GAAP themselves permit alternative accounting methods to be used for certain expenses and for revenue in certain specialized types of businesses. For another, GAAP methods require that decisions be made about the timing for recording revenue and expenses, or they require that key factors be quantified. Deciding on the timing of revenue and expenses and putting definite values on these factors require judgments, estimates and interpretations. The mission of GAAP over the years has been to standardize accounting methods in order to bring Read More This Post...

What are Other Ratios Used in Financial Reporting

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | Accounting, Business, Financial Reporting, Investing and financing with No Comments »

The dividend yield ratio tells investors how much cash income they’re receiving on their stock investment in a business. This is calculated by dividing the annual cash dividend per share by the current market price of the stock. This can be compared with the interest rate on high-grade debt securities that pay interest, such as Treasure bonds and Treasury notes, which are the safest. Book value per share is calculated by dividing total owners’ equity by the total number of stock shares that are outstanding. While EPS is more important to determine the market value of a stock, book value per share is the measure of the recorded value of the company’s assets less its liabilities, the net assets backing up the business’s stock shares. It’s possible that the Read More This Post...

Revenue and Receivables

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 | Accounting, Business, Revenue and Receivables with No Comments »

In most businesses, what drives the balance sheet are sales and expenses. In other words, they cause the assets and liabilities in a business. One of the more complicated accounting items are the accounts receivable. As a hypothetical situation, imagine a business that offers all its customers a 30-day credit period, which is fairly common in transactions between businesses, (not transactions between a business and individual consumers). An accounts receivable asset shows how much money customers who bought products on credit still owe the business. It’s a promise of case that the business will receive. Basically, accounts receivable is the amount of uncollected sales revenue at the end of the accounting period. Cash does not increase until the business actually collects this Read More This Post...

How is accounting used in business?

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 | Accounting, Business with No Comments »

It might seem obvious, but in managing a business, it’s important to understand how the business makes a profit. A company needs a good business model and a good profit model. A business sells products or services and earns a certain amount of margin on each unit sold. The number of units sold is the sales volume during the reporting period. The business subtracts the amount of fixed expenses for the period, which gives them the operating profit before interest and income tax. It’s important not to confuse profit with cash flow. Profit equals sales revenue minus expenses. A business manager shouldn’t assume that sales revenue equals cash inflow and that expenses equal cash outflows. In recording sales revenue, cash or another asset is increased. The asset accounts Read More This Post...

Basic Accounting Principles

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 | Accounting with No Comments »

Accounting has been defined as, by Professor of Accounting at the University of Michigan William A Paton as having one basic function: “facilitating the administration of economic activity. This function has two closely related phases: 1) measuring and arraying economic data; and 2) communicating the results of this process to interested parties.” As an example, a company’s accountants periodically measure the profit and loss for a month, a quarter or a fiscal year and publish these results in a statement of profit and loss that’s called an income statement. These statements include elements such as accounts receivable (what’s owed to the company) and accounts payable (what the company owes). It can also get pretty complicated with subjects like retained Read More This Post...

Profit and Loss

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | Accounting, Business, Profit and Loss with No Comments »

It might seem like a no-brainer to define just exactly what profit and loss are. But of course these have definitions like everything else. Profit can be called different things, for a start. It’s sometimes called net income or net earnings. Businesses that sell products and services generate profit from the sales of those products or services and from controlling the attendant costs of running the business. Profit can also be referred to as Return on Investment, or ROI. While some definitions limit ROI to profit on investments in such securities as stocks or bonds, many companies use this term to refer to short-term and long-term business results. Profit is also sometimes called taxable income. It’s the job of the accounting and finance professionals to assess the profits Read More This Post...