Diana Willis, a senior project manager at FASB, said, reporting entities have had difficulty dealing with financial instruments that blur the line between debt and equity—for example, a compound ...

Compound interest is a factor you need to understand when thinking about a whole range of financial instruments. If you’re carrying credit card debt, it’s going to take forever to pay off if ...

Knowing about compound interest will allow you to properly evaluate bank accounts, money market accounts, CDs and other financial instruments and choose the one that's best suited to your needs.

A couple of months ago, I wrote about the power of small and simple things — more specifically, about how simple financial principles lead to financial security. That column focused on creating ...