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When it comes to a company’s taxes, there are two important categories to understand: assets and liabilities. Tax liability is anything that a person or company owes taxes on, such as income or ...

Traditional financial reports miss critical business drivers like frozen capital, deferred taxes and relationship quality.

Whether you are a small business owner trying to get an accurate picture of cash flow or a Main Street investor examining financial statements to pick stocks, understanding deferred revenue can help ...

A deferred tax asset is usually an item on a company's balance sheet that was created by the early payment or overpayment of taxes. They are financial assets that can be redeemed in the future to ...

This report is one of a series on the adjustments we make to convert GAAP data to economic earnings. Reported earnings don’t tell the whole story of a company’s profits. They are based on ...

As the nation’s biggest telephone company, Verizon Communications Inc. has wrestled with growing competition from cable operators, a slowdown in its conventional land-line business, costly network ...

Deferred revenue, also known as unearned revenue, is income received by a business for goods or services not yet rendered. Although revenue is considered an asset (cash is always an asset), deferred ...

Most public companies should benefit from the new tax law, which lowers the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. Analysts expect the S&P 500 to see a profit boost ranging from 7% to more than 10%.

Businesses want to maximize their revenue in the hope that more revenue will equal greater profits. However, just because a business receives payment does not mean that it can record the proceeds as ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InfraCap MLP ETF (NYSE Arca: AMZA or the “Fund”) has modified the estimate of the Fund’s deferred tax liability based on information reported by the Master Limited ...

This report is one of a series on the adjustments we make to GAAP data so we can measure shareholder value accurately. This report focuses on an adjustment we make to our calculation of economic book ...