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February 2020 Insider

Welcome to February, everyone. This month we send a Valentine to impairment of leased assets, take a look at the types of material weaknesses that get reported, review restructuring charges, go virus hunting, and lots more.  

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

Why yes, that was Calcbench CEO Pranav Ghai quoted in a recent Fortune article about the proliferation of non-GAAP accounting metrics. 

And yep, Calcbench data again in the Wall Street Journal article looking at goodwill assets on corporate balance sheets. 

April 2020 Insider

Welcome to April, as volatile and disrupted as it may be. This month we go deep into Coronavirus: what companies are disclosing, how to analyze balance sheets. And in non-Covid news, we also have a special report on executive compensation.  

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

Why yes, that was Calcbench data cited in the Wall Street Journal, in an article exploring how firms are shoring up their cash positions during the Coronavirus crisis. 

November 2020 Insider

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Calcbench is thankful for all the Q3 data we now have to analyze, and we have a lot. This month we look at goodwill assets; how to pull data from earnings press releases; and much more.

Get Behind the Data,

The Calcbench Team

Putting Calcbench to Work

CBRE filed its third-quarter report, and we were curious about how the real estate firm's revenue streams are faring during the pandemic. It took a bit of digging beyond simple segment disclosures, but eventually we found lots of data. Read more.

Calcbench on the (Virtual) Road

December 2020 Insider

Happy holidays! Calcbench is celebrating the end of the year by researching Q3 data. This month we look at special purpose acquisition companies; time to file financial statements; a third quarter wrap-up; and much more.

Get Behind the Data,

The Calcbench Team

Two years ago we examined how much time firms needed to go from fiscal year-end, to earnings release, to 10-K filing. Now we've updated that research, and across the board, firms need more time to prepare and submit filings. 

Putting Calcbench to Work

MD&A data, tagged and ready. The SEC recently said that firms do not need to tag the data in their Management Discussion & Analysis disclosures. To that Calcbench says- who cares? We've already been offering that for years anyway.

How to pull earnings release data. Yep, Calcbench has added new capability to let you pull financial data from earnings releases directly into Excel, so you can do your own further analysis. See how it's done.

September 2020 Insider

Welcome to fall. We have a gusher of Q2 filings now, giving us a deep look at financial performance during the pandemic. This month we look at the tech giants, commercial loan delinquencies, supply chain financing - and at a flock of filings with some fascinating disclosures. 

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

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August 2020 Insider

The dog days of August may be upon us, but financial analysts still have plenty of data to chew on this month. We look at Delta''s bad streak of investments in other airlines; the volatile price of eggs; revenue from toilet paper sales; and banks'' loan loss provisions for 2020 - plus lots more. 

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

We would love to hear from you. Send your feedback to us@calcbench.com

May 2020 Insider

May has arrived, which means a flood of Q1 2020 financial data to study for hints about Covid-19. This month we look at loan-loss provisions, impairment of intangible assets, and a special report on funding shortfalls for corporate pension plans - to name only a few.  

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

We would love to hear from you. Send your feedback to us@calcbench.com

June 2020 Insider

As summer arrives we now have reams of corporate filings from Q1, filled with information about how Covid-19 has affected business performance. This month we take a deep dive into impairments, rent payments and restaurants; plus a look at how quickly companies go from earnings release to 10-Q filing.

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

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Few industries have suffered as much during the Covid-19 crisis as restaurants, so Calcbench devoted a series of posts to analyzing what those filers have been saying. At the end of May we launched our own Restaurant Week, examining. 

• Same-store sales, and how much coronavirus affected only one specific part of Q1 2020;

• The many types of impairment charges restaurants are reporting; and

• Risk factors related to Covid-19 that firms are disclosing.

We would love to hear from you. Send your feedback to us@calcbench.com

March 2020 Insider

Welcome to March and to spring, everyone. This month we take a deep dive into coronavirus: how specific companies are responding to it, and how much revenue might be at risk. We also take a look at Juul, at the Days Payable Outstanding metric, and lots more.  

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

July 2020 Insider

We hope all you Calcbench fans enjoyed the July 4th holiday! Now that the long weekend is done, there is financial data to crunch. This month we have a research note on net operating losses, a few items looking at disclosures related to coronavirus, an old-fashioned throwdown between Microsoft and Amazon, and more. 

Get Behind the Data,
The Calcbench Team

We would love to hear from you. Send your feedback to us@calcbench.com

January 2021 Insider

Happy New Year, Calcbench fans! We hope everyone had a pleasant Q4, and look forward to all the year-end data about to pour into the Calcbench databases. This month we look at how firms are piling up cash on the balance sheet, income from investment holdings, and lots more.

Get Behind the Data,

The Calcbench Team

Yes, firms have been stockpiling cash since the start of the pandemic. A close look at the data, however, shows that the largest firms in Corporate America aren't hoarding more cash than usual; a vast swath of smaller firms are.

Security firm SolarWinds is at the heart of the massive cyber-attack launched against the U.S. government and Corporate America last year. We reviewed the firm's disclosures for hints about how the attack might affect SolarWinds' revenue and customer relationships.

Putting Calcbench to Work

You'd expect that special purpose acquisition companies, SPACs, keep most of their assets in cash, so they can jump on acquisition opportunities - right? Well, we looked at the data. Wrong! See what we found. 

We have an interview this month with Dr. Vern Richardson, accounting professor at the University of Arkansas, about how he uses Calcbench for research and classroom education. Read the interview.

We heard you

Thanks to everyone who completed our annual survey. You asked, we listened. Expect us to cover more Non-GAAP financial metrics in January. 

In addition, look forward to our upcoming webinar as we explore the broader need for data analytics in accounting and how data analytics has changed how Big 10 firms audit and consult their clients. We discuss the skills that accounting students need to build a career in data analytics.