Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases with ...

In August 2021, the New York-based Top 25 Firm launched a new era in the accounting profession when it announced that it had taken on a groundbreaking strategic investment from PE firm TowerBrook ...

Phil Whitman of Whitman Business Advisors offers a primer on what the entry of PE money into the accounting profession means for firms. Welcome to On the Air with Accounting Today. I'm editor in chief ...

The first time she got a cold call from a private-equity investor, Paula Waggoner-Aguilar, CPA, was mystified. “We’re a small advisory and consulting firm, we stay in our niche, we don’t advertise a ...

A debt-to-equity ratio is a number calculated by dividing a company's total debt by the value of its shareholders' equity. A debt-to-equity ratio is one data point used by investors and lenders to ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.