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Calculating Earnings Per Stock from Financial Statements [closed]
Given the Earnings Per Share formula:
EPS = Profit – preference share dividends / weighted average of ordinary stocks outstanding
How does one calculate the ...
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Calculating Profit Ratio (Gross Margin) [migrated]
When looking at a company's income statement to calculate the Profit Ratio (Gross Margin)
PM = Net Profit / Sales
Do you include "other" sales revenue in the ...
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How to attribute income that incurs a double liability in a P&L?
I'm a developer writing a system for a startup. Without giving away too much of the business model, here are the basics of how it works:
The web site has two forms of "currency": tickets and ...
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Non-SQL methods for high-frequency accounting?
Does anyone know of any prior art for non-SQL data structures for high-frequency accounting, whether client, broker, or exchange-side? I'm thinking specifically of the problem of booking individual ...
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How would I value a perpetual bond with an embedded option?
I am trying to work out how to value the following transactions. It should be straight forward, since it breaks down into a series of well known instruments, yet I am not sure how to evaluate it:
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Who is in debt when a bank investments in commercial paper? [closed]
If a company issues commercial paper and the bookkeeper, bank A, receives a buy order from bank B, in which bank B creates credit to buy the commercial paper, does the company has a credit in bank B ...
