Bill Kimball

Bill Kimball
Bill Kimball has over thirteen years of experience in public accounting and provides audit and assurance services to both public and private businesses in a variety of industries including petrochemical, healthcare, hospitality, restaurants, not-for-profit, settlement trusts and employee benefit plans.
Two Approaches To Stock Valuation

Two Approaches To Stock Valuation

October 17, 2023

To calculate the current intrinsic value of a stock, find the company’s average historical P/E ratio and multiply by the projected earnings per share. This ratio measures the total company value as compared to its annual sales.

That number doesn’t mean much by itself, so we need to compare it to its historical numbers.
There are …

Sources Of Funding

Sources Of Funding

October 17, 2023

A company that totaled up its capital value would include every item owned by the business as well as all of its financial assets . But an accountant handling the day-to-day budget of the company would consider only its cash on hand as its capital.

The first of those steps is knowing the downside of the fund-raising process.
A loan at a …

Variable Cost Definition

Variable Cost Definition

October 17, 2023

Susan Ward wrote about small businesses for The Balance Small Business for 18 years. She has run an IT consulting firm and designed and presented courses on how to promote small businesses. Rosemary Carlson is an expert in finance who writes for The Balance Small Business.

It is because companies can simply explain price increases as a …

Using A Tax Deed To Invest In Real Estate

Using A Tax Deed To Invest In Real Estate

October 17, 2023

Items remaining unpaid by mid-April are advertised in the local newspaper for four consecutive weeks in May in an effort to notify the property owners of outstanding tax liability. After the tax deed application has been filed, it takes about 3 – 6 months for a property to go to auction.

Any certificate that was struck to the county at this …

Top 9 Things You Should Know About Agile Product Delivery

Top 9 Things You Should Know About Agile Product Delivery

October 17, 2023

Working piece by piece, Agile ensures rapid, fully operational delivery of a product and leaves room for the inevitable changes. The first three elements of the pipeline work together to support the delivery of small batches of new functionality, which are then released in accordance with market demand. Release timing, however, does not …

What Is Motor Vehicle Excise Tax?

What Is Motor Vehicle Excise Tax?

October 17, 2023

The national median cigarette excise tax in 2015 was $1.36 per pack. Excise taxes, also known as selective sales or differential commodity taxes, are levied for the sales of specific goods or services. Excise taxes are commonly applied to items such as motor fuel, alcohol and tobacco.
In 2017, excise taxes accounted for $83.8 billion of the …