The lawmaker’s call for an SEC investigation into the school highlights the industry’s fishy valuation practices.

Private equity fund accounting is quite complex to other investment vehicles. What separates fund accounting from general accounting is that, while small businesses, for example, make purchases ...

Private equity accounting is specialized because PE funds take a long-term investment approach, acquiring and improving companies before selling them for a profit.

Meet the players. There are two main camps of firms with private equity money: the "motherships" and the "roll-ups." Motherships are when large firms, like Top 10 Firm Grant Thornton or Top 25 Firm ...

Transcription: Dan Hood: ()Welcome to On the Air with Accounting Today. I'm editor in chief Dan Hood. You know, one of the more interesting developments in the past couple years has been the entry of ...

The equity accounting method is used if the reporting entity has a significant interest in another company but does not own it outright. In practice, this means an ownership stake of 20-50% in the ...

TowerBrook Capital Partners’ purchase of an ownership stake in EisnerAmper marked the first private-equity deal with a top 20 accounting firm. In a Q&A with the JofA, accounting firm consultant and ...

The French carmaker, which owns 35.71% of Nissan, said the financial hit from the change has no impact on its cash position ...

Advocates say firms’ interest in the public markets is likely to have more success this time. Private equity has emerged as an alternative to the partnership model, snapping up accounting firms across ...

A 1,000-strong professional services firm with offices across the UK, Ireland and US is set to be acquired by a new private equity owner.

That means the trend could affect all sizes of firms, many of which are too small to attract private-equity notice. Among 45,000 accounting firms, only nine have at least $1 billion in revenue and ...

July 1, 2025 Evolution of the accounting treatment of ...