Generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, serve as guidelines for businesses large and small in reporting financial information to outsiders. GAAP's objective is to guarantee that current or ...

A National Bureau of Economic Research paper highlights new research on how to overcome contractual incompleteness. Traditional contracting approaches have inherent flaws and a “new approach” that ...

If you were to ask a number of your employees to describe your organization’s culture in five words, would their lists be consistent? It’s an exercise worth trying, and if your company is typical in ...

Every small business owner wants to succeed. Why put your blood, sweat, and tears into launching a new venture, only to watch it fail? And yet, many of them do. Over the years, I have worked with ...

We trust accountants to handle their jobs – managing not only our financial affairs but also those of the companies in which we invest and the governments we need to trust – in an ethical, independent ...

Existence of an expectation that disclosures remain confidential is an important consideration. Even in the absence of a legal agreement, it still may be relevant to determine whether any policies or ...

The events of the past two months have left many in our community stunned and uncertain about the future of higher education in our nation and our ability as a university to effectively pursue our ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Defining your beliefs and guiding principles is important to running a successful business. If you don’t define your beliefs, others–be ...

Being a leader in the Internet world can be very confusing. What we call a “leader” today may refer to anything from a Twitter user to a YouTube sensation or a blog author. Furthermore, the principles ...

Companies often confuse perks with benefits. Ping-pong tables, kombucha taps, and snack bars make for great recruiting photos. Still, they don’t replace what supports people: mental health care, ...

Yes, that’s right, leadership is easy. After all, we all know what it is or, at the least, what we want it to be. And, there’s definition after definition from book after book that tells us exactly ...

Training and educating graduate students in the biomedical sciences is a complex process that continually evolves based on the rapid progression of scientific discovery and the ever-expanding ...