Accounting Archive
The Gap Between Operating And GAAP Earnings
September 21, 2009 · Category: Accounting, Fundamental Analysis
Really good "Ahead of the Tape" WSJ column by Mark Gongloff from Friday: "Investors, It Pays to Mind the GAAP Gaps". He discusses the widening gap between operating earnings and GAAP earnings over the last ...
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The Problem with Stock Options Accounting
November 6, 2006 · Category: Accounting
As I wrote a few weeks ago, in my review of Yahoo!'s 3rd quarter, changes in stock options accounting made Yahoo!'s quarter seem worse than it was. In an aside in that post, I also ...
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Top Gun Gets It Wrong: Yahoo! Reports an Expected Mediocre Quarter – And Gets Hammered!
The market responded negatively to Yahoo!'s mediocre 3rd quarter - even though everybody knew it was coming! Yahoo's shares lost $1.16 yesterday to close at $22.99 on volume of almost 112 million shares. The shares have ...
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