Over the first four trading days of 2018, the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq Composite closed in record territory every day. Each of the bench marks passed some ...

The method used to round numbers in accounting may portray an accurate or inaccurate appraisal of a company's financial condition. The amount of error increases with ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

Setting a price just below a round number ($39.99 instead of $40) may lead consumers into thinking a product is less expensive than it really is -- but it can sometimes backfire on sellers, a new ...

Round numbers are handy—they’re easy to add, subtract and remember. But they’re not so helpful when it comes to crowdfunding. A new study by researchers Tse-Chun Lin and Vesa Pursiainen found that ...

Robert Breunig receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Treasury and the Australian Taxation Office. Australia’s tax system is needlessly complex, and that’s making it ...

When negotiating for a salary, most of us reach for a nice, round number like $65,000. Or $90,000. Or $120,000. But, by favoring all those zeros, we may be missing an opportunity to score a better ...