Tag: Contrasting

LinkedIn and Twitter’s Contrasting Strategies

LinkedIn and Twitter’s Contrasting Strategies

The financial performance of internet based companies has been heavily discussed following the recent announcement of Facebook’s, Zynga’s and Groupon’s disappointing second-quarter results. The main concern arising from these results is what the respective companies are going to do to improve their future monetisation strategies. In my view there are two proven, if contrasting, solutions […]

Comparing and Contrasting GAAP and IFRS

Comparing and Contrasting GAAP and IFRS

For whatever reason, the United States does things their own way sometimes, even if the rest of the world does not do the same. The accounting method in the US (GAAP) is different from what most of the rest of the world uses (IFRS). There are many key differences between GAAP and IFRS. Some of […]