Last week, Dave Michaels at The Wall Street Journal reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission was looking into whether companies were improperly rounding up their earnings per share to the ...

It’s so tempting to round off numbers and present your audience with pretty whole numbers rather than cluttering up the text with decimal points and a string of digits. Sometimes rounding a number up ...

Excel displays the original number up to 11 digits. When you enter a number that has more than 11 digits, Excel does not display the original value. Instead, it displays the number in the exponential ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

The method used to round numbers in accounting may portray an accurate or inaccurate appraisal of a company's financial condition. The amount of error increases with ...

Over the first four trading days of 2018, the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq Composite closed in record territory every day. Each of the bench marks passed some ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. At some point in your life, you were most likely taught how to ...