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A Complete Guide to Reading Financial Statements

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With little experience in reading financial statements, this request makes you freeze in your tracks, uncertain of how to express the success of your growing business. If this scenario sounds in any way relatable, it’s time to become more familiar with the process of reading financial statements. Cash flow statements.

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Accountants make me laugh (without meaning to): financial statements

Accounting Insight

Balance Sheet Companies are required to prepare a certain number of documents called financial statements. To be fair, before computers were invented, the books (a term that accountants use for accounting records) had to be balanced and a trial balance was prepared before completing financial statements.

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Protecting Your Business from Real Estate Fraud

RogerRossmeisl

5 schemes First, be aware of these five common real estate fraud schemes: Fake documents. Every real estate transaction requires extensive documentation. To make an acquisition more enticing, sellers could fake rent rolls, financial statements or other documents that indicate an asset’s profitability.

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Fraud Considerations When Making Business Acquisitions

RogerRossmeisl

Plan early to engage a fraud expert to review financial statements and other documents for signs that you could be dealing with a dishonest seller. Subtle warning signs When reviewing a seller’s financial statements, forensic experts look for subtle warning signs of fraud.

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Consider Alternative Indicators of Business Value

RogerRossmeisl

When valuing a business, experts often look beyond the company’s financial statements. Management interviews and document requests may provide additional objective insight into how much the owners believe the business is worth.

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IASB offers examples to improve reporting of climate-related uncertainties in financial statements

Accounting Today

The International Accounting Standards Board published a consultation document with eight proposed illustrative examples to show how companies could apply International Financial Reporting Standards when reporting the effects of climate-related and other types of uncertainties in their financial statements.

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The Talent Shortage Has Gotten So Bad Clients Are Now Doing Their Own Audit Documentation

Going Concern

auditing requirements because in numerous audits over numerous years Deloitte China asked clients to select their own samples for testing and to prepare their own audit documentation. The post The Talent Shortage Has Gotten So Bad Clients Are Now Doing Their Own Audit Documentation appeared first on Going Concern.

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