Accounting

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August 27, 2019 

BlackLine Partners with Google Cloud for Data Services

BlackLine will leverage Google Cloud Platform to add innovative, cloud-native capabilities such as machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance its financial automation platform with new real-time, intelligent functionality.

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August 27, 2019 

Five Common Scenarios That Can Lead to a Material Weakness

While organizational agility is often critical to a company’s success, change management can be challenging for companies to navigate, especially when implementing new technologies. Material weaknesses commonly arise when change management controls ...

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August 27, 2019 

Deloitte Transforms Indirect Tax Recovery With AI

The solution not only allows tax professionals to save time and resources but can help companies to proactively avoid overpaying their indirect tax liabilities. CogTax leverages optical character recognition (OCR), along with advanced machine learning ...

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August 26, 2019 

Home Values in U.S. Continue Strong Growth

The typical U.S. home is worth $229,000, up 5.2% from a year ago – this is the smallest annual appreciation since October 2015. Last year at this time, home values rose 7.7% year-over-year. Still, home values are up 0.3% month-over-month, an ...

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August 26, 2019 

How to Use Data Discovery to Forecast Your Firm’s Future

, regulatory changes and more demanding clients, and it’s understandable if you’ve had little time to consider what’s ahead. These are created when the array of software, solutions and subscriptions you’ve deployed don’t play well together. One function of your firm could be using a customer relationship management (CRM) solution to handle interactions with clients...…

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August 22, 2019 

Engaging the Power of Your Informal Networks

Networking is recognized as a major influence on one’s ability to achieve great success. The most successful people in the world possess the capability to influence and shape the opinions of others. However, there is a greater emphasis on the type of network one participates in. Much has been written about successful executives and leaders and...…

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August 21, 2019 

Canopy Welcomes New Vice President of Product

Larry Furr has joined the cloud-based accounting firm practice management maker Canopy as vice president of product. A seasoned product executive, Furr’s responsibilities will include overseeing the strategy, management, and design of Canopy’s suite of products and charting Canopy’s product roadmap. Furr brings nearly two decades of product strategy and development experience to Canopy. He...…

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August 20, 2019 

Good News and Bad News on Payments and Fraud Control:

Business email compromise (BEC) is a top tactic for external attacks, impacting over half of the survey respondents, up from 46% in 2017. Wire transfers are still the most common target for BEC scams, probably because they’re usually one-off requests...