Author Archives: Karl

What’s the share premium used for?

As you’ve noticed, our equity includes a line item called as ‘Share premium’. What is this premium?

A share premium comes into the equation once we decide to pay contributions into the share capital. A mere payment into the capital is of course an option but as it is, there are often times when it’s not wise to put all the money into the capital due to reasons we’ve mentioned before.  Continue reading

Changes in accounting principles

As a general background, accounting principles are what you select for your company as a framework based on which you start recording your accounting entries, reporting on your results. The question one might have is whether accounting principles once chosen can be changed and I don’t mean changed entirely like you’d change from your local accounting principles to international ones for instance, but if the accounting framework you’ve applied gives you a chance to choose between accounting treatments for certain areas.  Continue reading

Your annual tax filings

Something that you inevitably have to prepare once a year are your official reporting apart from the annual report. There are filings such as statistics, employee related (depending on your local legislation of course), but almost certainly there are tax reporting (or tax filings) you have to prepare and submit to tax authorities once a year. Yes, some are prepared once a month, others once a quarter, but there are almost always some tax filings you’d have to submit once a year and not more often.  Continue reading