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Accounting November 30, 2021 

Throughout 2021, the profession celebrated a landmark achievement that occurred in the face of adversity. In 1921, John W. Cromwell Jr. became the first Black CPA, an accomplishment that opened doors for generations of aspiring Black CPAs.

November 29, 2021 

Managers most likely to offer flexible schedules work in large companies with 1,000 or more employees (44%); marketing (48%), legal (42%) and administrative (41%) departments; and hybrid teams, where some employees work in the office and some work.

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Getting new business, and engaging existing clients or customers is crucial in growing any company, whether it’s your firm or your clients’ businesses. With the vast array of multiple, unintegrated financial and marketing tools available in today’s ...

November 29, 2021 

When vendors want to be paid by check, it's often because they have some sort of mechanism that makes it easy to process them. In larger companies for example, that often means using their treasury bank to do lockbox processing for them.

November 29, 2021 

With more taxpayers and tax preparers working remotely, identity thieves are trying to use COVID-19 to scare and scam people out of their identities or money. Everyone should remember to take basic steps to protect themselves.

November 29, 2021 

The combination will add two offices to Eide Bailly’s downtown presence in the Twin Cities, one in Bloomington, Minn., and another in Plymouth, Minn. PWB’s strong reputation for client service and specific industry expertise will help Eide Bailly ...

November 24, 2021 

The U.S. Department of Labor announced on November 24, 2021, a final rule that implements Executive Order 14026 to increase the hourly minimum wage for employees on federal contracts beginning Jan. 30, 2022. President Biden signed the order on ...

November 24, 2021 

In the week ending November 20, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 199,000, a decrease of 71,000 from the previous week's revised level. This is the lowest level for initial claims since November 15, 1969 when it was ...

November 24, 2021 

Nearly 2 million more people than last year are expected to shop from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday this year even as consumers have continued the trend of starting their holiday shopping earlier in the year, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. “We’re expecting...…

November 24, 2021 

Nearly two dozen accounting thought leaders, organized by compliance automation provider Avalara as the Accounting Meta Influencers,gathered for an online video roundtable to discuss current trends facing the accounting profession.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

November 23, 2021 

While there is incredible uncertainty as we move into the final months of 2021, there are a couple major events tax teams should be tracking, as their outcomes could make a big difference for the 2022 tax landscape and well beyond.

November 23, 2021 

As we march toward the end of another challenging year, the question remains if we are prepared for a glitch-free wrap of the business year. Along with tax and accounting, there are some tax, compliance, legal, information technology (IT), and ...