Accounting
3 Ways to Improve Expense Management and Improve Cost Savings
If a business has been around more than a few years, chances are it has already been put through the cost-cutting wringer. Although many businesses have seemingly exhausted all their options to cut costs, companies continue to look for additional ...
Audit and Risk Professionals Say Biggest Challenge is Communicating with Executives
The most widespread challenge facing audit, risk management and compliance professionals is putting their work into a context that speaks to executives. According to the 2014 GRC Technology Pulse Survey, conducted by ACL, the company that is ...
3 Tips for More Accurate Business Valuation
It’s a classic conundrum – to build versus to buy. Make dinner at home versus take-out. DIY that holiday wreath or roam a tree farm to choose the perfect one for the door. While there are certainly people constructing their own coffee table ...
Financial Group Wants More Limits on Corporate Inversions
Earnings stripping allows companies to avoid U.S. corporate tax by shifting domestic earning to low- and no-tax jurisdictions. In the process, the U.S. part of the company is saddled with debt which is owed to the foreign entity. The interest payments o
Accounting Tools for the Digital Age
From tracking outgoing inventory to determining a company's deductions for charitable donations, accountants "have an app for that." Which tech tools are most useful to the modern-day accountant?
Another Epic Fail For the IRS and ObamaCare?
It would be nice to believe that with years to prepare, the Internal Revenue Service is prepared to manage the complexities of verifying insurance qualifiers for Obamacare, collecting the $95 from those who owe a penalty, and easing the way for the ...
AICPA Issues Advisory to Employee Benefit Plan Sponsors
The AiCPA has prepared a new advisory to provide plan sponsors, administrators and trustees with an understanding of the importance of hiring a quality auditor to perform employee benefit plan financial statement audits
How a San Francisco Firm Keeps Pace with Silicon Valley Clients
Want to turn off a potential Silicon Valley client? Bring a traditional, labor-based approach to providing accounting services to an entrepreneur whose sole mission is to disrupt traditional approaches to the market they’re in.