The cash flow statement shows us where a company's cash came from, and where it went. 

An income statement takes all the revenue and expenses of a company and parcels them out in regular one-year intervals. It's like the difference between a free-flowing stream and an engineered lock.

A very brief overview of what a balance sheet has to say for itself, using Apple's 2015 annual report as an example.

How corporate income tax works.

Sometimes stock options work out. Sometimes they don't. They are a cost to the company either way.

Companies used to report what they paid for assets. Now they are encouraged to report values that are more relevant. What could go wrong?

Biopolitics: everyone's an entrepreneur now.

Accounting is about our desire to tell our own story.

The way we divide up the world says as much about us than it does about the world.

A poem is a poem because it is like The Waste Land or a Shakespearean sonnet and not like a user's guide to a toaster oven.

How on earth did we get here, of all places?

Our favourite way of dividing up the world is with the labels "us" and "them."

What would you like to know?