Accounting

December 6, 2016 

Trump's choice for Commerce secretary, investor Wilbur Ross, is worth some $2.5 billion by Forbes' account, and Ross' likely deputy, Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts, is in the billionaires club, too. Betsy DeVos, selected to head the Department of ...

December 5, 2016 

Xero’s 862,000 subscribers can now offer their customers the ability to view and pay an invoice using Apple Pay through Stripe. Invoices paid with a payment service get paid almost 80 per cent faster than invoices that don’t offer a payment service.

December 5, 2016 

More than 13,500 accountants and bookkeepers in 72 hours have already opted into Xero HQ’s beta release, the platform launched to take advantage of these tools to help expand their practices.

December 5, 2016 

Peyton Burch of Intacct elected Board Chair; Allen Smith of Baker Tilly is new Board Vice-Chair.

December 2, 2016 

More than 1,700 CPAs and financial professionals from across the U.S. participated in Ensuring Success 2016, a free, day-long series of CPE-eligible educational sessions presented by CPA Practice Advisor. The practice management resource provides ...

November 30, 2016 

The report discusses the growing impact of non-financial KPIs; why CFOs and their teams should lead the effort in identifying and defining them; and how business processes and skillsets must change to accommodate these new non-financial metrics.

November 30, 2016 

Finding a solution that is easy to implement and that delivers business benefits sounds like it’s too good to be true, right? Well, maybe not. Read on to find out how intranet templates could be the solution your small business is looking for.

November 29, 2016 

Applying for a small business loan or line of credit can be a critical step in opening or expanding a business. To ensure a successful relationship, prospective lenders will request documents and ask questions about you, your business, and your goals.

November 29, 2016 

Significant inspection findings decrease, however consistent audit execution remains a challenge; CPAB and firms to focus on systems and processes to drive sustainable audit quality

November 28, 2016 

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently reported that canceling the overtime changes would benefit consumers by avoiding price increases that would come if companies had to pay their workers more. Real family income would be $2.1 billion ...

November 28, 2016 

The first step is specifying value from the standpoint of the customer. Accounting firms have multiple customers. The easiest to identify are, of course, the clients who pay you. But as you begin to understand the core of Lean, you need to identify ...

November 28, 2016 

Several years ago, a business owner called Tim McDaniel seeking a business valuation to support the sale of her business to her son. She claimed to know already the value of the business – $2.5 million – and simply needed McDaniel to prove that ...