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Historical financial statements. Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of the financial activities and position of a business, person, or other entity.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) [a] is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), [1] and is the default accounting standard used by companies based in the United States.
In bookkeeping, a general ledger is a bookkeeping ledger in which accounting data are posted from journals and aggregated from subledgers, such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, fixed assets, purchasing and projects. [1]
Open-book accounting (OBA) is a business practice which opens up an organisation's accounts to some or all of those with an interest in the organisation, including its employees and its shareholders (including those whose shareholding is managed indirectly, for example through a mutual fund) and supply chain. [1]
Financial statement analysis (or just financial analysis) is the process of reviewing and analyzing a company's financial statements to make better economic decisions to earn income in future.
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) is the independent accounting standard-setting body of the IFRS Foundation.. The IASB was founded on April 1, 2001, as the successor to the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC).
The United States House Committee on Financial Services, also referred to as the House Banking Committee and previously known as the Committee on Banking and Currency, is the committee of the United States House of Representatives that oversees the entire financial services industry, including the securities, insurance, banking and housing industries.
Lehman Brothers Inc. (/ ˈ l iː m ən / LEE-mən) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. [2] Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch), with about 25,000 employees worldwide.