When your company makes a profit, you can issue a dividend to shareholders or keep the money. The profits you keep are called retained earnings. You can use retained earnings to fund working capital, ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.

When calculating the capital outlay of a business, you are seeking the balance of cash expenditures - payments made over the span of 12 months or more - or the allocation of funds toward the ...

John Parker is a business writer with 20+ years of experience as a business executive specializing in accounting and finance. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society ...