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Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Accounting principles help hold a company’s financial ...

GAAP stands for Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. They are the standards and procedures companies commonly use to account for their finances and compile financial statements. Sometimes an ...

The GAAP approves four different methods for depreciating business assets: the straight-line method, the units of production method, the declining balance method and the sum-of-the-year's-digits ...