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 Death and Taxes and Expenses … 10 Key Tips

September 9, 2016 

Death and Taxes and Expenses … 10 Key Tips

Expense reporting can be painful, complex or simple, but rarely would I hear anyone suggest that expenses are pleasurable. Even those of you who avoid expense reporting have others in your organization who wind up doing the paperwork and accounting ...

Randy Johnston

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September 9, 2016 

Hey Xero – New Chatbot For Accounting Users

The chatbot will have the capability to connect the more than 50 million small businesses who use Facebook Messenger every month into the wider Xero ecosystem, opening a new way for businesses to discover the cloud accounting platform and find the ...

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September 9, 2016 

Change Management in Accounting Firms

In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing environment, we must be prepared to pivot quickly. Doing things the way we’ve always done them just doesn’t work anymore. Author Alan Deutschman popularized the business catchphrase, “Change or Die.” And it’s truer than ever – remaining stagnant is a recipe for extinction. But we all know, saying you’re open to...…

Jim Boomer

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September 8, 2016 

SAP Enhances Revenue Accounting Platform for New Standards

SAP SE has enhanced its revenue accounting platform to help CFOs and chief accounting officers master the new IFRS 15/ASC 606 standards. These new accounting standards apply to all entities — public, private and not-for-profit — that have contracts ...

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September 8, 2016 

Is It Time To Update Your Valuation Engagement Letter?

In the hustle and bustle of running your valuation practice, it can be convenient to incorporate templates for letters and documents as you accept engagements and produce valuation reports to enhance the valuation practice’s efficiency.

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September 7, 2016 

Embracing Conflict Helps Family Businesses Find More Success

Conflict can actually be an asset to companies when it’s effectively managed and properly resolved. This is according to study findings from EY and Kennesaw State University (KSU) compiled in a new report, Can embracing conflict spur positive change?

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September 7, 2016 

U.S. Cities Falling Behind on Competitiveness

U.S. cities are demonstrating strength in leading economic and social indicators, but are also revealing dimensions where they are falling behind as engines of global competition and urban well-being, according to PwC’s Cities of Opportunity 7.