A liability is a financial obligation or debt owed. Liabilities are key elements on every company’s balance sheet, and therefore, important to stock and bond investors. Learn more. In finance and ...

When a business is audited, the reviewer job is to ensure that management's assertions in the financial statements are verifiably true. To assess the validity of these claims, the auditor will conduct ...

Anyone who has run a business of any size understands how confusing and, at times, complex the tax code can seem. So deferred tax assets (DTAs) can be challenging. However, understanding them is ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. When investing, assessing a company’s assets and liabilities is a basic requirement to ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Analyzing financial information is a critical part of being a business owner. One of the ways to monitor the financial performance of your company is through ratios. Using ratios is a quick way for ...

Future underwriting considerations, along with other hedges such as reinsurance, are risk-management variables at their disposal. Venter et al. presented a series of simple examples illustrating that ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education ...

Editor’s note: This is part 13 of an ongoing series about using trusts and LLCs in estate planning, asset protection and tax planning. The effectiveness of these powerful tools — especially for asset ...