Learn how trade date accounting records transactions on the agreement date, its benefits over settlement date accounting, and its impact on financial statements.

Reducing the Barriers to International Trade in Accounting Services is one in a series of new AEI studies on negotiations to liberalize trade in services. Each study focuses on a particular service ...

Setting up your firm to focus on serving the accounting needs of a specific industry, or special service, is a powerful way to set your accounting practice apart from the rest. This approach ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leading writer and speaker in the area of trader tax benefits. If you have multiple cryptocurrency (coin) trades, consider a trade ...

RECENT FASB RULE CHANGES HAVE MADE IT IMPORTANT for CPAs to understand the concept of “trade dress” and its impact on a company’s financial statements. Trade dress refers to the unique packaging or ...

Nine trade groups representing the financial, insurance, banking, real estate and other industries have united to create a coalition with the goal of influencing accounting standard-setters who are ...

E-Trade Financial Corp. is on track to combine its brokerage and banking balance sheets by midsummer, its president and chief operating officer said. "Neither the Federal Reserve nor the OTS has ...

Many securities traders incur significant tax bills on phantom income caused by “wash sale losses disallowed” on form 1099-Bs. Traders are often surprised because most brokers don’t report wash sale ...

As the UAE's non-oil trade reached a remarkable Dh3.0 trillion in 2024, up 14.6 per cent year-on-year, the implications of the ongoing global trade war are becoming increasingly significant. Trade ...