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Berkshire Hathaway reported $25.7B of Q2 2026 GAAP net income, but $10.9B was unrealized equity gains; operating earnings were $13.0B, cash and T-bills reached $365.5B, and insurance float hit $177.5B. A public Beancount ledger separates mark-to-market gains from operating results.
Best Buy FY2027 Q2: revenue $9.78B (+3.6%), enterprise comps +4.1%, GAAP diluted EPS $1.48 (+70%) versus adjusted $1.47 (+15%). Roughly $0.41 of the GAAP jump is last year's restructuring base effect, and ~$34M of IEEPA tariff refunds (~$0.12 per share) supplies about two-thirds of the adjusted EPS growth. FY27 comps guidance rises to 1.9–3.0% and adjusted EPS to $6.70–$6.90, while inventories climb 8.3% to $6.3B — all tracked in a public Beancount ledger spanning FY2022–FY2027Q2.
BNPL settlements net fees at the source and deduct refunds from future payouts, so booking the bank deposit as revenue understates sales and breaks your 1099-K tie-out. This guide shows the clearing-account method — one account per provider, revenue booked gross on the order date, fees as their own expense — with a worked $10,000 Afterpay week and a monthly close checklist.
Broadcom's Q3 FY2026 revenue hit $29.591 billion (+86% YoY) and GAAP net income $13.088 billion (+216%), with AI semiconductor revenue of $16.7 billion now 56% of total revenue. A double-entry breakdown of how the AI backlog shows up as $13.7 billion of receivables and $4.5 billion of inventory while free cash flow ran at 46% of revenue.
Bug bounty payouts from HackerOne and Bugcrowd are ordinary income from the first dollar, and for 2026 platforms only issue 1099s at $2,000 per researcher — but the income is taxable with or without a form. Covers W-9 setup, the hobby-versus-business test that decides whether tooling is deductible, self-employment tax, and quarterly estimates.
A five-factor framework — 36-month total cost of ownership, time to value, differentiation, integration, and compliance risk — for deciding which SaaS financial tooling to buy and which to build, with a worked example at $20,000 MRR where buying a billing engine costs roughly $25,000–$45,000 against $50,000–$100,000+ to build one.
SBA loans typically enter default after three to four missed payments; past 60 days past due with long-term problems, servicing rules push lenders toward liquidation over deferment. The sequence runs lender collateral seizure and personal-guarantee enforcement, SBA guarantee purchase with a 60-day demand letter, a lump-sum offer in compromise on Forms 1150 and 770 after collateral is liquidated, and finally Treasury Offset Program collection via tax refund offset and administrative wage garnishment.
The Capital Construction Fund lets commercial fishermen deposit fishing income before income tax under IRC Section 7518 and spend it tax-free on building or rebuilding a U.S. vessel — at the cost of reduced depreciable basis. This guide covers the 2-net-ton eligibility floor, the three internal accounts, qualified versus nonqualified withdrawals taxed at the top marginal rate plus interest, the 25-year clock, and the annual NOAA Form 34-82 filing.
Late fees are enforceable only when the client agreed to them in writing before the invoice went overdue. This guide covers the 1%–1.5% per month market standard, state usury limits, grace periods, and how to book fee income to a separate account for clean revenue and tax reporting.
Chicago's amusement tax runs on three tracks in 2026 — 9% on live admissions, 10.25% on streaming and paid TV, 3% on registered ticket resales — plus a new 10.25% sports wagering tax and a $0.50 per-user monthly social media levy above 100,000 Chicago consumers. Here are the rates, the limits of the 1,500-seat exemption, the $100,000 remote-seller safe harbor, and the filing deadlines that trigger assessments.
China's first VAT Law took effect January 1, 2026, doubling the per-transaction exemption for individuals to RMB 1,000 while keeping the RMB 100,000 monthly and RMB 300,000 quarterly thresholds — and forcing six categories of individual income to aggregate monthly instead. Here is how the thresholds work, why a supplier's VAT status can flip month to month, and what foreign-invested buyers should change in their contracts.
Circle's Q2 2026 total revenue and reserve income was $701.3M (+7% YoY), with net income from continuing operations of $48.2M — a $530M YoY swing explained by last year's $503.4M IPO stock-compensation charge rolling off, not USDC demand. Period-end USDC circulation fell to $73.3B from $77.0B, distribution partners kept 58.8% of revenue, and ~$242M of ARC Token presale proceeds sit as deferred revenue ahead of the September 16 Arc mainnet, all reconstructed in Circle's public Beancount ledger.
