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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stock indexes often get hung up around round numbers The Dow and S%26P 500 are currently getting bounced around the 14%2C000 and 1%2C500 levels Big round numbers often serve as resistance to the ...

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 ...