The Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed improvements Thursday in the accounting guidance for hedging activities. The hedging standards are the latest component, although they are not yet ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released its long-awaited hedging standard, the final component of its financial instruments convergence project with the International Accounting ...

The difference between the long-term interest rates for loans and the short-term interest rates for deposits – known as the “interest rate margin” – is the main source of profitability for a ...

Translation risk is the foreign exchange risk associated with the translation of net investments in foreign operations into a group’s presentation currency when preparing consolidated financial ...

The current economic environment of rising interest rates is hurting the financial performance of companies holding debt security investments as financial assets. Financial asset values decrease when ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...