Ryan Downie has 9+ years of equity research, financial consulting, and business ownership. He has 500+ published equity research works. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an ...

Is a company making profit or a loss? It’s undoubtedly an important question in the minds of managers, investors, bankers, and boards of directors (investors would like to buy shares of, and banks ...

Non-GAAP accounting is on the rise, with roughly 75% of companies reporting non-GAAP earnings and about 20% of companies reporting a non-GAAP profit despite a GAAP loss. Aggregate earnings appear to ...

Take a look at almost any earnings press release and you’ll see that standard accounting numbers—for net income, earnings per share, and even revenue—are buried under an avalanche of alternative takes ...

Many companies supplement GAAP financial reporting with individually tailored accounting information. While these non-GAAP disclosures might provide useful information about an entity, financial ...

Warren Buffett had a few words in his most recent shareholder letter for managers who mislead their shareholders with massaged earning numbers. Buffett suggested that shareholders should ignore ...

The Governmental Accounting Standards Board released a study Monday on utilization of GAAP among state and local governments and found all the states are using GAAP, but only about three-quarters of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. #1 stock picker for 51 straight months on SumZero. AI is my edge. Whenever non-GAAP metrics get attacked, a slew of contrarians ...

Non-GAAP financial measures are financial metrics that are not based on standard accounting principles but are presented by a company to provide additional insight into its performance. These measures ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. #1 stock picker for 51 straight months on SumZero. AI is my edge. Movement in Core Earnings and GAAP earnings were quite different ...