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December 2018 Accounting & Audit Channel
Top 5 Skills Modern Accountants Need in 2019 Kurt Avarell, Founder & CEO, Canopy To achieve success, accountants must understand the importance of investing in themselves. This means building up their skills beyond crunching numbers and preparing tax returns. It’s important for modern accountants to improve valuable skills and build on their strengths in areas […]
December 2018 Small Business Channel
How Businesses Can Combine Data and Systems Into a Winning Strategy By Greta Guest Most managers want to base their business decisions on solid information, but that’s not always easy. It can be challenging to figure out exactly what data you should compile and how you can best use it. Michigan Ross Professors Gwen Yu […]
AICPA Proposes New Standards for Forensic Accounting
Employment in forensic accounting grew at an annualized rate of 18% from 2012 to 2017 per a report from market research firm IBISWorld, and continued growth is projected in the coming years. With the increasing demand for forensic services, the ...
4 Tips to Better Manage Travel, Expense and Invoice Budgets
In a business segment where cash flow is king and growth is the number one priority, it’s getting increasingly difficult for small businesses to track spend against set budgets. Reports are finding effective spend management is tied to strong ...
5 Questions a CFO Should Ask During Year-End Business Assessment
We all know time and money are precious. So why wouldn’t you want to assess the very area that could be draining both of those resources? It’s important to analyze how much of this is dedicated to entering data from expense reports and invoices.
New AICPA Scholarship for CPAs Pursuing Ph.D
The $10,000 scholarship will be awarded annually to five outstanding accounting Ph.D candidates who demonstrate significant potential to become mentors for the next generation of CPAs.
Men More Likely to Commit Expense Fraud than Women
The large disparity may just come down to gender differences in risk-taking behavior. In a 2004 experiment, researchers designed a computer game involving gambling and risk and found significant differences in the way men and women perceived ...
Do Public Companies Manipulate Cash Flow Benchmark to Boost Credit Ratings?
In the early period of performance pricing, creditworthiness (and, therefore, rates) were determined principally by accounting metrics, most commonly the ratio of company debt to earnings, with grids specifying higher rates as a firm’s ratio increased ...