Dividends are those delightful distributions of cash you receive from your shares of stock and mutual funds. Corporations also can receive dividends by owning dividend-paying stock of other ...

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 Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a standards update aimed at clarifying the interaction between the rules related to equity securities, equity method investments and certain ...

FASB also decided to add a project to its technical agenda on the fair value measurement of equity securities subject to ...

FASB’s efforts to simplify accounting continued Tuesday, when the board issued a standard eliminating the requirement to retroactively adopt the equity method of accounting when an investment ...

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 ...