Advisory April 24, 2026
5 M&A Signals CPAs Should Be Watching for Their Clients in 2026
The choppiness of the M&A market is an opening, not an obstacle. Use it to build a stronger advisory foundation with the clients who need it most.
September 19, 2017
How to Create a Culture of Innovation
The word innovation is thrown around a lot in our profession. Everyone wants ideas for doing things faster, easier, cheaper, or better. But rather than drive innovation from within the firm, they’re trying to keep up with what others are doing ...
September 18, 2017
Demand by Renters Pushes Home Sale Prices Higher
While rents for both houses and apartments have slowed significantly over the past year, median rent for houses rose 1.3 percent annually to a monthly rent payment of $1,404, but median rent for apartments rose 0.5 percent, to a monthly rent payment ...
September 18, 2017
More than Half of Grocery Sales Now Influenced by Digital Marketing
According to the survey, digital’s influence on grocery overall has nearly doubled year over year and has similarly driven increasing impact on the in-store shopping experience. Since 2013, digital’s influence in-store across all retail sectors has ...
September 18, 2017
8 Factors Affecting Innovation for Financial Services Firms
The rise of customer choice will have profound implications on the design and distribution of products, and will likely force companies to shift roles. Platforms that offer the ability to engage with different financial institutions from a single ...
September 18, 2017
Commercial Real Estate Outlook Remains Strong
Commercial real estate price growth in large markets is expected to flatten over the next year, but strong leasing demand and investor appetite in smaller markets should keep the sector on solid ground, according to the latest National Association of ...
September 18, 2017
Student Loan Debt Delays Homeownership for Millennials by 7 Years
The financial pressures many millennials with student debt are now experiencing appear to somewhat come from not having a complete understanding of the expenses needed to pay for college. Only one-in-five borrowers indicated in the survey that they ...
September 18, 2017
Workers Have Confidence in their Companies’ Leaders
Workers in a recent Robert Half Management Resources survey cast a vote of confidence for executives leading their firms. Approximately eight in 10 professionals polled feel at least somewhat confident in the ability of senior management to grow the ...
September 18, 2017
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma — Disaster Planning: It’s Back to Basics for Your Firm and Clients
What can firms do to better prepare themselves for disaster? How can they carry through their trusted advisor role to help clients recover? With technology in today’s environment, we all know it’s easier to prepare and plan for a natural disaster ...
September 18, 2017
Leveraging Supplier Payment Networks for ePayments
The hardest problem in B2B payments isn’t moving the money. It’s simple enough to get payment to suppliers electronically through a credit card or ACH network. What’s hard is vendor enablement—knowing which suppliers accept what payment type, and ...
September 18, 2017
Hardware Matters – Think About Working With None!
With so much focus on Cloud and Mobile, can you imagine using your technology with no hardware? Hardware has become so cheap, reliable and generally good, many of us take this part of our technology experience for granted. It has been ten years since ...
September 18, 2017
Cognitive Technologies are Critical for Advancing Corporate Real Estate Practices
In today’s digital era there is growing pressure on financial executives to produce more analytics, reports and actionable insight across the enterprise faster than ever before. With corporate real estate representing the second-largest expense for businesses today, finance teams need up-to-date visibility into real estate offerings in order to fully support financial and business goals....…
September 18, 2017
AICPA Calls for More Clarity and Revisions to Partnership Audit Regs
The AICPA submitted a broader comment letter about the Regime on August 14 and recommended a one year delay in implementation of the Regime in a letter dated June 13.