Accounting

March 9, 2020 

An oil price war triggered by the spreading coronavirus sent already anxious financial markets into chaos Monday, with stocks plunging and crude prices collapsing in a worldwide panic that threatens a global economic recession. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index dropped 7% in the first minutes, triggering a 15-minute halt in trading. When trading resumed,...…

March 9, 2020 

Centage Corporation (www.centage.com), a provider of cloud financial software has announced the 2020 goals for its Centage Gives Back community outreach program, which has been expanded with new organizations and opportunities. Throughout 2020, teams of Centage employees look to donate at least 300 hours to local organizations that serve area residents in need. Some of...…

March 9, 2020 

World Council of Credit Unions’ Global Women’s Leadership Network (GWLN) is calling on the worldwide credit union movement to advocate that “an equal world is an enabled world” by encouraging industry women to apply for a 2020 GWLN Scholarship ...

March 6, 2020 

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has rightly become the focus of massive public attention in recent weeks, and financial markets around the world have reacted accordingly, with the stock markets experiencing sharp sell-offs.

March 6, 2020 

The newest addition to the Southern California region will serve several industries, including real estate, construction, private equity, financial institutions, and manufacturing and distribution.

March 5, 2020 

Work to adopt the mandatory Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) lease accounting standard (GASB 87) has not begun for half of those employed in state and local governments (51.4%) and public higher education institutions (50%), per a ...

March 5, 2020 

66 percent of U.S. business owners at this early stage say they are prepared should the virus become widespread. That's according to new research from Paychex, a leading provider of human resources, payroll, benefits, and insurance solutions.

March 5, 2020 

The Readers' Choice Awards give our readers the opportunity to help shine a spotlight on the technologies, services and vendors they use and trust — the ones that help them succeed in their profession, and those that they find valuable for their clients.

March 5, 2020 

Invoiced, an accounts receivable automation platform, and CollBox, a bookkeeping-integrated application that lets businesses collect on past due invoices, have announced a new integration that makes it virtually effortless to transmit overdue invoices to CollBox’s network of vetted collection agencies. While most Invoiced customers are able to get paid faster and significantly reduce bad debt,...…

March 5, 2020 

There were also signs of worry from bankers about increased competition from the fintech sector. More than three-fourths (76%) of bank respondents said they fear new payment and money transfer platforms, like ApplePay, PayPal, Stripe, and Venmo, ...

March 5, 2020 

Business executives’ outlook for the U.S. economy rose sharply in the past quarter, but concern is clearly growing about the potential global fallout from the spread of coronavirus, according to the first-quarter AICPA Economic Outlook Survey.

March 4, 2020 

Falling victim to fraud is much more likely to have a substantial emotional impact (68 percent) on the elderly than a substantial financial impact (32 percent). And phone and internet scams top the list of ways financial fraud is perpetrated against ...