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Financial Statements
Understand and prepare balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow reports
Private School Bookkeeping: Deferred Tuition and Fund Accounting Explained
Private school tuition is an exchange transaction under ASC 606, not a donation, so tuition collected before the school year starts must be booked as deferred revenue and recognized ratably over 10 or 12 months, while donor-restricted gifts follow separate ASC 958 rules.
Apple's Best March Quarter Ever: $111.2B Revenue, a New $100B Buyback, and Retained Earnings Turn Positive Again
Apple's Q2 FY2026 revenue reached $111.2 billion (+17% YoY) with expanding margins across every geographic segment, and a new $100 billion buyback authorization pushed retained earnings positive for the first time since fiscal 2021. Full income statement and balance sheet, FY2021-Q2 FY2026, in a public Beancount ledger.
NVIDIA Q1 FY2027: $81.6B Revenue, and $15.9B of Net Income That Isn't From Chips
NVIDIA's Q1 FY2027 revenue hit $81.6B (+85% YoY) and net income $58.3B (+211%), but $15.9B of that profit came from marking up its equity portfolio, not selling chips — core net income is closer to $42.4B. The quarter also retired the five-segment breakout for two platforms, Data Center (92% of revenue) and Edge Computing. Full income statement and balance sheet, FY2024–Q1 FY2027, in a public Beancount ledger.
Structural Engineering Firm Bookkeeping: PoC Revenue, WIP, and E&O Tail Coverage
Structural engineering firms should recognize revenue by design-phase completion under GAAP percentage-of-completion (schematic 15–20%, design development 25–30%, construction documents 35–40%, construction administration 10–15%), track unbilled work-in-process separately from AR, and reserve for claims-made E&O tail coverage that can run 100–300% of an annual premium.
Tesla Q1 2026: Margins Hit a 5-Quarter High While Deliveries Keep Falling — and a New $25B+ Capex Guide Rattled the Stock
Tesla's Q1 2026 revenue reached $22.4 billion (+16% YoY) with automotive gross margin hitting a 5-quarter high of 19.2% ex-regulatory-credits, but a capex guidance raise to over $25 billion and a $2.0 billion SpaceX equity stake sent the stock down 3.56% despite the earnings beat. Full income statement and balance sheet, FY2021-Q1 2026, in a public Beancount ledger.
Airbnb FY2025 Earnings: A $12 Billion Platform Pays Full Price for Its Second Act
Airbnb closed FY2025 with $12.2B revenue (+10.3%), $2.5B net income, and a net margin down 3.4 points as it funded services, experiences, and hotels while repurchasing $3.8B in stock. A bull-vs-bear analysis backed by an open double-entry Beancount ledger covering FY2023 through Q1 2026.
FASB ASU 2024-03: What the New Expense Disaggregation Disclosure Rule Means for Your Business
FASB's ASU 2024-03 (nicknamed DISE) requires public companies to break income statement expenses like compensation, depreciation, and inventory purchases into footnote detail starting with fiscal years after December 15, 2026, and private companies preparing for a sale, loan, or IPO should get their chart of accounts ready now.
Microsoft FY2026 Q3: Azure Hits 40% Growth as the $190 Billion Capex Bet Compounds
Microsoft's FY2026 Q3 revenue rose 18.3% to $82.9B with net income up 23.1% to $31.8B, while Azure re-accelerated to 40% growth — but gross margin compressed for a third straight quarter (69.1% → 68.0% → 67.6%) as capex tracks toward $190B for calendar 2026. Full income statement and balance sheet, FY2020–FY2026 Q3, in a public Beancount ledger.
SpaceX's First Public Earnings: Starlink's $11.4B Profit Machine Is Bankrolling a $6.4B AI Bet
SpaceX's IPO filing shows FY2025 revenue of $18.7B (+33%) and a $4.9B net loss — Starlink earned a $4.4B operating profit at a 38.8% margin while the AI segment (X and xAI) lost $6.4B on $3.2B of revenue and consumed $12.7B of capex. A bull-vs-bear analysis backed by an open double-entry Beancount ledger covering FY2023 through Q1 2026.
GPU Depreciation Schedules Explained: How Neoclouds Turn One Accounting Estimate Into Billions in Profit
CoreWeave depreciates GPU servers over 6 years, Lambda over 5, and Nebius over 4 — a difference in useful-life estimates that can shift reported profit by tens of millions of dollars per 10,000-GPU fleet without any cash changing hands, and sits at the center of Michael Burry's $176 billion overstated-depreciation claim against major AI infrastructure spenders.
Contributed Services in Nonprofit Accounting: ASC 958-605 Recognition Guide
Under ASC 958-605, a nonprofit recognizes contributed services at fair value only when the work created or enhanced a nonfinancial asset, or required a specialized skill the organization would otherwise have paid for and the volunteer actually holds that credential — general volunteer hours, however valuable, stay off the books and out of Form 990.
Natural vs. Functional Expense Classification: How Nonprofits Build the Form 990 Statement of Functional Expenses
Since ASU 2016-14, every nonprofit filing a full Form 990 must allocate expenses across program, management and general, and fundraising using a reasonable, consistent methodology — here's how time studies, square footage, and headcount allocation actually work, and the five mistakes that draw auditor scrutiny.