Finance and Investing

Know your Customer (KYC)
The Know Your Customer (KYC) principle - also called Customer Due Diligence or CDD - prescribes that a financial institu (...)

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The Preliminary Expenses in Balance Sheet
Where are the preliminary expenses situated in the balance sheet? (...)

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🔥	NEW Never Waste a Good Crisis as Investor "Never Waste a Good Crisis" or "Never let a good crisis go to waste" is often attributed to Winston Churchill, although (...) 5 1 comments

The Equity Method in Accounting
The Equity Method is a tool of accounting used by companies to record their equity investments in a separate company or (...)

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Foreign Investment Guarantees
A foreign investment guarantee is an international investment contract defined as a (written) agreement whereby a foreig (...)

Investing by Business Firms
Many people, when they hear the term "investment", probably think of investing in financial securities. However, investi (...)

Cryptocurrencies PROs and CONs
A cryptocurrency is an electronic means of payment and payment system that uses a peer-to-peer network which is fully de (...)

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Distress Restructuring?
What is distress restructuring? How do we define it? When is it carried out? How? (...)

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How to restore Trust in Financial Markets?
What approach or method should be used to restore the confidence in the financial markets and financial institutions? Wh (...)

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New Global Reserve Currency needed?
Today's economic recession with all its social consequences was caused by financially irresponsible behavior of US regul (...)

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Consequences of Subprime Crisis
What will be the consequences of the recent Subprime Crisis for non-financial enterprises? (...)

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Is the End of the Recession Near?
Are we seeing the end of the recession or is the worst yet to be seen? What about credit card crisis? (...)

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WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) Calculator
WACC is a key concept in finance - it is the appropriate discount rate to use when valuing a firm's cash flows, or to ev (...)

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List of Investment Mantras
Let's collect a list of investment mantras here!
If possible, let's also add the circumstances / market conditions (...)

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Interest Rate Raise vs Economic Recovery
The Reserve Bank of Australia raised the cash rate by 25 bases point to 3.25%. Reason: the global economy is resuming gr (...)

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Minority Shares Buyback
Hi, I'd like to ask about accounting for shares buyback for the following case:
10% of the shares of company A are (...)

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Alternative Investments
What are Alternative Investments? Meaning Alternative Investments is an umbrella term that refers to all asset classes (...)

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