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 ...

Dividends are those delightful distributions of cash you receive from your shares of stock and mutual funds. Corporations also can receive dividends by owning dividend-paying stock of other ...

The cost and equity methods of accounting are used by companies to account for investments they make in other companies. In general, the cost method is used when the investment doesn't result in a ...

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For most investors, the proper way to account for your investing profits and losses is with the cost method of accounting. This method is not the only choice, however. For investments where the ...