Q. I was excited to see the article about ways to calculate depreciation in Excel, especially when I saw one of them was double-declining balance (DDB). As tax professionals, we’re always trying to ...

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Reviewed by Charlene Rhinehart Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Businesses depreciate long-term assets for both tax and accounting purposes. For tax purposes, businesses can deduct the cost of the ...

Calculating data fluctuations-- also called variance -- is a multi-step process that requires total accuracy. Excel 2010 provides two basic formulas for calculating fluctuations, depending on whether ...

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When teaching financial accounting, faculty often discuss bonds payable and how to calculate the issue price of a bond. The next time you cover this topic, consider teaching students how to calculate ...

Companies prepare the balance sheet and the income statement periodically at the end of each accounting cycle. While a balance sheet relates to a specific date, or a given point within an accounting ...