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Set Concrete Goals - One of the best ways to help you set a budge and live within your means is to set realistic, but concrete, goals for things like...

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Accounts Receivable

Definition: Accounts receivable is an item on the balance sheet that shows how much the company is currently owed.

Advice: When a customer places an order, the company books it as revenue and puts it in account receivable until they're received payment.  For this reason, it's very important for a company to be good at collecting on what people owe it.  If you see a company that regularly has to write down its accounts receivable or has large "bad debt expense", it means that the company may be making too many sales to people who aren't paying them.  Another sign of financial fraud occurs when companies' accounts receivable are increasing proportionally faster than sales: they may be making false sales to inflate their income statements.

 

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it is accounting term

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Rights Issue - Rights Issue is the permission of a company or corporation to existing shareholders. The current shareholders status give them access to purchase shares of stock security of an issue of the common stock before the company offers the stock securities to the public domain. The stock security...

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