Accounting

December 7, 2018 

The group’s winning presentation focused on a case in which a media company had recently acquired a theme park that included a gaming subsidiary. The students were tasked with determining if the company should continue funding the gaming subsidiary ...

December 6, 2018 

As subscription businesses begin to use billing as a competitive edge, constant change creates complexities and downstream implications for finance teams. Additionally, the ASC 606 and IFRS 15 accounting standards that were announced in 2014 will be ...

December 5, 2018 

More than 50 percent of corporate B2B payments are still made by paper checks, according to a recent AFP survey. Virtual credit card payments offer an efficient, alternative way forward – minimizing the costs, time and manual labor associated with ...

December 5, 2018 

Leaders of the CPA profession, the regulatory community and representatives from critical stakeholder groups are joining together to explore possible changes to the CPA licensure model that embrace the need for expanded skillsets of professionals. The goal of the effort is to align licensure with how CPAs will perform services in an increasingly technologically-driven environment....…

December 5, 2018 

Launched this past summer, OnPoint PCR was jointly developed by CPA.com, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and CaseWare International Inc. By integrating content and methodology into a leading cloud platform, OnPoint PCR allows firms to enhance ...

December 5, 2018 

With the number of public companies declining sharply since the 1990s and more than $1.8 trillion in private capital raised in 2017, the marketplace is embracing RIVIO as a means to create transparency and trust in key financial data.

December 5, 2018 

Analytics have become an important part of the decision-making process for many companies in the past few decades, particularly with corporations using data assets as a core competency and point of origin. My work in the past few decades in the data ...

December 4, 2018 

Like most nations, China has its unique accounting complexities and one example is the country’s Fapiao system, in which receipts and invoices are actual official tax documents printed on the spot. The goal of Fapiao was to create a transparent system ...

December 4, 2018 

To achieve Oracle Validated Integration, Oracle partners are required to meet a stringent set of requirements based on the needs and priorities of the customers. This certification enables Vertex to streamline deployment and provide an elevated user ...

December 2, 2018 

The report found that 92 percent of companies surveyed had been a victim of ORC in the past year and that 71 percent said ORC incidents were increasing. Losses averaged $777,877 per $1 billion in sales, up 7 percent from last year’s previous record ...

December 2, 2018 

Ready or not, the holidays are here. This is the busiest time of year for most retailers — and typically involves an enormous amount of shipping. A review of state sales tax rules for shipping and delivery charges therefore seems in order.

Gail Cole

December 1, 2018 

In business and in life we come across moments where we think: “what if.” What if I would have invested in this? Or what if I would have been an early adopter of that? Would my life or my business look any different?