Accounting February 28, 2026
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April 6, 2016
How Accounting Firm Compensation Committees Assess Partner Performance
The beauty of the CC system is that it gives the committee members the freedom to assess each partner’s performance on a wide range of areas. Firms that use the CC system are making a statement: They value traditional production measures but they ...
April 5, 2016
How to Avoid Payroll Risks — Know Your Customer!
Knowing your customer is tremendously important, especially in today’s Internet-driven world where the majority of business with some clients may not be done in person.
April 5, 2016
Tax Pros Focus on BBQ During Tax Season
Though finance industry professionals tend to order salads and lighter Mediterranean food throughout the year, all that goes out the window during busy season. Barbecue, which makes up only 3% of total orders throughout the year, is ordered twice as ...
April 5, 2016
How Employee Dishonesty Bonds Can Save A Small Business
Also known as commercial crime bonds, it can be difficult to grasp their importance for the smooth operation of business. They are a type of fidelity surety bond that protects your business from dishonesty, fraud, theft, forgery and embezzlement that ...
April 5, 2016
Practice Management – An Opportunity to Grow
Probably more important than the tool is the culture of business development, discovery meetings, referral clients and omni-channel marketing. Since many accounting professionals have not been trained in marketing, this leads to common errors and ...
April 5, 2016
CFOs Becoming More Strategic
As further evidence that the role of CFO is becoming less tactical and more strategic, the survey found that only 8% of CFOs, or teams reporting directly to the CFO, are spending the bulk of their time closing the books each month. By contrast, the ...
April 5, 2016
New Guidance Looks At Financial Management and Controllership
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Financial Management and Controllership combines expert analysis and practical, day-to-day guidance for financial managers and controllers, incorporating sample statements, budgets, disclosures, customizable checklists, ...
April 5, 2016
The “Panama Papers” Leak Exposes Tax Dodgers Around The World
Among the “who’s who” of people named in the documents are friends or relatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin and leaders of Great Britain, China, Iceland, Pakistan and the Ukraine. In addition, the president of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, allegedly
April 3, 2016
30% of Americans Clueless On Their Debt
Forty-seven percent of respondents frequently live paycheck to paycheck. Two-thirds2 of Americans don't have six months of savings in their emergency fund. Thirty percent don't have an emergency fund at all. More than half of respondents don't ...
April 1, 2016
Professionals on the Move – April 4, 2016
A roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
March 31, 2016
Millennials, Boomers and Xers Are Confident in 2016 for Small Business
Millennials are the most positive about the business economy, with 62% reporting they’re more confident in the financial health of their business than last year. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers agree, 59% respectively report that they are more confident ...
March 31, 2016
Add Stock vs. Asset Sale as a Parameter to Business Valuation Engagements
Most, if not all American professional business appraisal standards are silent on the matter of the structure of the sale – an asset sale or stock sale. There are numerous reasons for the omission of the explicit consideration of transaction ...