The value of a business depends on so many variables that calculating the market value of a business is more an art than a science. According to Bankrate.com, banks regularly use more than 150 ...

Understand what the current ratio measures, why it matters, and how to use it to assess and improve short-term liquidity.

Accounting for turnover is often a useful practice in small-business management. Turnover is simplistic, but it provides a straight-forward way of assessing the efficiency of a business.

Managing a business without a clear handle on your financial data is like flying blind. You may be moving quickly, but you can’t see if you're on course or heading for turbulence. Over the years, in ...

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A proposed accounting rule would flip certain debt from non-current to current, and some hospital leaders say the change—affecting tens of millions of dollars in some cases—could throw their debt ...