When one company has an interest in another company it has equity in that company. Under certain circumstances, the appropriate way for the company to account for that investment on its own books is ...

Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases with ...

A company may invest in another private or publicly traded company. The accounting for this investment depends on the level of control of the parent company in the subsidiary. The consolidated method ...

Phil Whitman of Whitman Business Advisors offers a primer on what the entry of PE money into the accounting profession means for firms. Welcome to On the Air with Accounting Today. I'm editor in chief ...

More than a few eyebrows were raised in August when the news broke that TowerBrook Capital Partners had struck a deal to purchase an ownership interest in EisnerAmper LLP, the first such deal between ...

The first time she got a cold call from a private-equity investor, Paula Waggoner-Aguilar, CPA, was mystified. “We’re a small advisory and consulting firm, we stay in our niche, we don’t advertise a ...

Private equity capital is driving a "revolution" in the wealth management and accounting industries, but its ties to credit from non-bank lenders could pose risks, a new study found. Those elevated ...