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 teaching financial accounting, faculty often discuss bonds payable and how to calculate the issue price of a bond. The next time you cover this topic, consider teaching students how to calculate ...

Financial mistakes can be inadvertent or they can be solely due to lack of command over the subject matter. Some mistakes can be fatal and some may be trivial but embarrassing. Whatever the cause or ...

Net present value is a calculation used to determine the current value of a business, an investment, a capital project, or another finance activity based on the future value of assets. Read to learn ...

The PMT function is an Excel Financial function that returns the periodic payment for an annuity. The formula for the PMT function is PMT(rate,nper,pv, [fv], [type]). The NPV function returns the net ...