Generally speaking, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows companies to deduct the cost of goods that are used to either make or purchase the products they sell for their business. For accounting and tax purposes, these are listed under the entry line-item cost of goods sold (COGS). This reduction can be a major benefit to…
If generally the goal of a sequel to the cinema is to continue the story where the first film ended by keeping more or less the same tone and respecting the codes put in place, certain exceptions come a little to make a finger of honor to this principle. If in fact it can give…
What Is a Guaranteed Bond? A guaranteed bond is a debt security that offers a secondary guarantee that interest and principal payments will be made by a third party, should the issuer default due to reasons such as insolvency or bankruptcy. A guaranteed bond can be of either the municipal or corporate variety. It can…
Most of the time, when the actors are taken on a film, they tell us that they were very motivated for the role and that they worked hard to get it, and then it stops there (even if we knows that half of them were probably boosted by their agent or their mom was friends…
What Is Net Income After Taxes? Net income after taxes (NIAT) is a financial term used to describe a company’s profit after all taxes have been paid. Net income after taxes is an accounting term and is most often found in a company’s quarterly and annual financial reports. Net income after taxes represents the profit…
Cover your ears, cover your eyes, the following is very scary: Twitter is probably going to shut down. The fault of Elon Musk who bought the social network at the end of October 2022 to fire people and do anything big. As a result, many Twitter employees are currently resigning in protest, which is quite…
A bond’s coupon rate (sometimes abbreviated simply to “coupon”) isn’t affected by its price. However, the coupon rate influences the bond’s price, by influencing the bond’s competitiveness and value in the open market. How Does A Bond’s Coupon Interest Rate Affect Its Price? How Bond Coupon Rates Work A bond’s coupon rate denotes the amount…
Attention, I have a scoop for you: the majority of what surrounds you was probably made in China! But naaaaaan? Too crazy! What is my surprise to learn such news! More seriously, the real surprise is not to learn that half of the planet is made in China (that, in fact, we knew that), but…
Developed-market exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can help investors gain relatively cheap, broad diversification through access to hundreds or thousands of individual holdings across the world’s most advanced economies. Here, we take a look at the five largest developed-market ETFs in terms of assets under management (AUM). A developed market belongs to a highly productive, industrialized country with an…