Corporate Finance & Accounting

Corporate finance and accounting deal with financing, capital structure, business activity reporting, and analysis to help maximize returns and shareholder value.
What Is a Spinoff?
By
Amy Fontinelle
Updated Oct 06, 2021
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Syndicate Definition
By
Carla Tardi
Updated Oct 23, 2020
Learn About Simple Interest and Compound Interest
By
Elvis Picardo
Updated May 20, 2022
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Business to Business (B2B)
By
James Chen
Updated May 29, 2020
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How Chairs Are Different From CEOs
By
Chris B. Murphy
Updated Dec 04, 2021
What Corporate Governance Means for the Bottom Line
By
James Chen
Updated Jul 04, 2021
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How Escrow Protects Parties in Financial Transactions
By
Caroline Banton
Updated Mar 09, 2021
What Is a Quarter in Business?
By
Jason Fernando
Updated Jan 01, 2022
How Do I Use the CAPM to Determine Cost of Equity?
By
Andrew Bloomenthal
Updated Apr 08, 2022
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Treaty Reinsurance
By
Julia Kagan
Updated Nov 29, 2020
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Written Premium
By
Daniel Liberto
Updated Nov 29, 2020
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How Internal Growth Rate Is Achievable for Business
By
Adam Hayes
Updated Mar 04, 2021
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How Should a Company Be Raising Capital?
By
Claire Boyte-White
Updated Feb 09, 2022
Financial Risk vs. Business Risk: Understanding the Difference
By
J.B. Maverick
Updated Jul 25, 2021
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Understanding Facilities
By
Mitchell Grant
Updated Nov 14, 2020
Incremental Cost of Capital
By
James Chen
Updated Feb 28, 2021
Understanding Make To Stock (MTS), Drawbacks, and Alternatives
By
Troy Segal
Updated Nov 26, 2020
Calculator and Charts
Pure Risk: What Everyone Should Know
By
Julia Kagan
Updated May 10, 2021
What are the Most Effective Ways to Reduce Moral Hazard?
By
J.B. Maverick
Updated May 27, 2021
Business Asset
By
Daniel Liberto
Updated Nov 27, 2020
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The Difference Between Fixed Cost, Total Fixed Cost, and Variable Cost
By
Steven Nickolas
Updated Jul 14, 2021
The Difference Between a Loan Syndication vs. a Consortium
By
Christina Majaski
Updated May 28, 2021
What You Should Know About Assurance
By
Julia Kagan
Updated Oct 20, 2021
Syringe
How Capital Injections Keep Companies Afloat
By
Caroline Banton
Updated Nov 23, 2020
How tp Use the Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich to Reduce Taxes
By
Chris B. Murphy
Updated Oct 30, 2020
The Ins and Outs of Pitchbooks
By
Adam Hayes
Updated Nov 30, 2020
Recapitalization: The Ins and Outs
By
Will Kenton
Updated Oct 24, 2020
Six Sigma Reduces Errors and Saves Capital
By
Adam Hayes
Updated Mar 25, 2022
Supply Chain Finance: What You Should Know
By
Andrew Bloomenthal
Updated May 31, 2021
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What Is Winding Up in Business?
By
Will Kenton
Updated Apr 11, 2022
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Why It's Important to Unlever the Beta When Making WACC Calculations
By
The Investopedia Team
Updated May 23, 2021
Full Costing Definition
By
Daniel Liberto
Updated Aug 27, 2021
Compound Probability Definition
By
Julia Kagan
Updated Nov 26, 2020
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Understanding Quick Assets
By
Adam Hayes
Updated May 27, 2021
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Learn How a Company Improves on Its Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
By
J.B. Maverick
Updated Aug 25, 2021
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What Is Other Comprehensive Income?
By
Andrew Bloomenthal
Updated May 17, 2022
Why Allocating Capital Is a Key Management Decision
By
Will Kenton
Updated Nov 07, 2020
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Understanding International Finance
By
Julia Kagan
Updated Oct 17, 2020
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Bring on the Borrowing Base
By
Andrew Bloomenthal
Updated Nov 07, 2020
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Capital Commitment
By
Will Kenton
Updated Nov 07, 2020
What You Should Know About Gross-Up Payments
By
Adam Hayes
Updated Mar 04, 2021
Shrinkage
By
Will Kenton
Updated Nov 21, 2020
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What Is a Comfort Letter?
By
Will Kenton
Updated Nov 28, 2020
How Is the Economic Order Quantity Model Used in Inventory Management?
By
Evan Tarver
Updated Mar 08, 2022
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How Are Unusual or Infrequent Items Treated for IFRS and U.S. GAAP?
By
The Investopedia Team
Updated May 27, 2021
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Understanding Methods and Assumptions of Depreciation
By
Jim Mueller
Updated Jun 22, 2021
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What Is the Role of Agency Theory in Corporate Governance?
By
The Investopedia Team
Updated Apr 30, 2021
Capital Goods Definition
By
Alicia Tuovila
Updated Mar 10, 2022
Management Accounting
What Does Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) Say About a Company's Management?
By
Evan Tarver
Updated Jul 09, 2021
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Utilizing Checks and Balances to Reduce Mistakes and Bad Behavior
By
Brian Beers
Updated Jan 04, 2022
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Privatization
By
Marshall Hargrave
Updated Feb 27, 2021
Cost of Capital vs. Discount Rate: What's the Difference?
By
Christina Majaski
Updated May 19, 2022
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Intellectual Capital
By
James Chen
Updated Feb 16, 2021
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How Cumulative Voting Is Used
By
James Chen
Updated Dec 12, 2020
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Shell Corporation
By
Will Kenton
Updated Aug 25, 2021
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How Fixed and Variable Costs Affect Gross Profit
By
Brian Beers
Updated May 18, 2022
What Is Cash Flow?
By
Adam Hayes
Updated Dec 01, 2021
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How Assurance Services Work
By
Adam Hayes
Updated Dec 03, 2020
Paid-Up Capital
By
James Chen
Updated Jun 24, 2020
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Profit before Tax (PBT)
By
The Investopedia Team
Updated Sep 30, 2020