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.

When one company has an interest in another company it has equity in that company. Under certain circumstances, the appropriate way for the company to account for that investment on its own books is ...

After graduating with a finance degree, Taylor Jensen started her career as a broker at a major financial services company. Although she loved interacting with clients, she craved more autonomy and ...

Businesses purchase ownership stakes in other companies to achieve objectives they cannot achieve alone. The ownership percentage and that ownership's character determine how the business accounts for ...

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 ...

The International Accounting Standards Board has begun a public consultation on proposed amendments to International Financial Reporting Standards to help companies account for their investments in ...

Equity Methods spun off from Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2012 with the backing of Montage Partners Equity Methods was founded in 1998 HGGC has acquired Equity Methods, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based ...

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, ...