Analysis

Here's a look at how a financial planner handles this common trick question.

Although August was supposed to be slow, prudent finance teams have seen this month's surpisingly low rates as a reason to delay summer vacations and issue debt instead.

If signed into law in its current form, AB 5 carries sweeping consequences for industries relying on independent contractors.

"Now's the time to be ramping up your effort" to obtain exclusions, said Jason Waite, a partner at Alston & Bird who leads the firm's international trade and regulatory group in Washington, D.C. But he warned that there are "still a lot of unknowns."

The Applied Critical Thinking (ACT) unit is tasked with poking holes in the most basic assumptions the central bankers make.

Despite the soaring stock market, many corporate finance teams seem to be battening down the hatches.