Accounting

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February 9, 2018 

Rand Paul Causes Brief Government Shutdown

Less than a month has passed since the last government shutdown, but for a few hours early on Friday morning, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) used a Senate rule to shut the federal government down. It was a symbolic gesture, at best.

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February 8, 2018 

Why Bother with Project Accounting?

While standard financial accounting is essential for the health of your business, project accounting helps drive the success of individual engagements. Project accounting is more about the details – and viability – of every single active and inactive ...

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February 8, 2018 

The Basics of Entity Structuring

When structuring an entity for a client, it is important to know a few basic things. The legalities (if you don’t know ask an attorney), and the taxation of said entity. As far as the legalities, in my state of Florida, a single member limited ...

 Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

February 8, 2018 

Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

Two conferences have been added to the AICPA ENGAGE lineup this year – the EDGE Career Development Conference, designed for standout young CPAs, and the CPA Firm Management Association’s National Practice Management Conference – bringing the total ...

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February 8, 2018 

Are CFOs and Auditors Too Cozy?

In accounting, the term "familiarity threat" refers to the threat to auditor independence that arises when a CFO or other top executive of a company being audited was formerly employed by the accounting firm conducting the audit. In the years leading ...

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February 7, 2018 

The 2018 Payment Technology Checklist: 5 Trends to Watch

With a new year comes new resolutions, disruptors and trends. This will especially ring true in the payments space, which boasts one of the biggest growth markets in the world - fintech. Research estimates that global fintech solution usage is ...

 10 Ways Boardrooms are Tackling Risk in 2018

February 6, 2018 

10 Ways Boardrooms are Tackling Risk in 2018

Looking to the year ahead, the organization WomenCorporateDirectors convened top global corporate directors in its EMEA and Asia Institutes this fall, and, from those and other discussions, identified ten ways boards are seeking to mitigate risk today.

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February 6, 2018 

Xero Partners with Stripe for Integrated ACH Transfers

Xero, a provider of small business accounting and management solutions, has partnered with Stripe, enabling Xero customers to accept Automated Clearing House (ACH) bank transfers. With the availability of ACH payments, Xero’s more than 1.2 million ...

 Office Workers Perform Better with Natural Light

February 2, 2018 

Office Workers Perform Better with Natural Light

According to a new study conducted a professor in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell, workers in daylit office environments reported an 84 percent drop in symptoms of eyestrain, headaches and blurred vision symptoms, which ...