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CFOs Keep Moving on Growth, Despite Concerns on Iran and Inflation
Cutting costs remains finance leaders’ top priority, but growth has moved sharply higher on the agenda.
October 2, 2014
New Cabinet AP Module Automates Accounts Payable Tasks
Cabinet Document Management Solutions has launched Cabinet AP, a new module for its Cabinet SAFE product that is designed to automate manual processes in document-intensive tasks like accounts payable processing. Cabinet is a maker of electronic document
October 2, 2014
KPMG Acquires Qubera
The global Big 4 accounting and consulting firm KPMG LLP has acquired “certain” assets of the cyber-security firm Qubera Solutions. The companies say that the transaction will strengthen the KPMG network’s security transformation capabilities in several service areas, including Cloud Identity Federation, Identity as a Service (IDaaS), Identity Governance, and IAM solution implementation. “As threats...…
October 2, 2014
Optimism Among Small and Mid-Sized Business CEOs Hits 2-Year High
Optimism among small and mid-sized business leaders is at a reported two year high, according to the Vistage CEO Confidence Index, the largest survey of chief executives from small and medium-sized businesses in the United States. And this vote of confide
October 1, 2014
FreshBooks Launches Online Payments Service
FreshBooks, which makes cloud accounting solutions for service-based small business owners, has added its own online payments to the FreshBooks platform. The new offering allows business users in the United States and Canada to quickly set up ...
October 1, 2014
ADP Jobs Report Shows 217,000 New Jobs in September
The total number of jobs in the U.S. private sector increased by 213,000 from August to September, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report.
October 1, 2014
Charitable Donations Increase by Most Since Great Recession
A new analysis of how Americans and Canadians donate to nonprofit organizations shows the greatest overall increase since 2008.
October 1, 2014
The Three Rs of Travel & Entertainment Deductions: Records, Records and More Records
[This is the last in a series of articles on maximizingdeductions for travel and entertainment (T&E) expenses.] In the not-so-distant past, the IRS often suspected that deductions for travel and entertainment (T&E) were being inflated or, even worse, being claimed when no legitimate expenses existed. Eventually, it carved out a strict set of recordkeeping requirements for...…
September 30, 2014
Businesses See More Revenue & Profit if Using a Public Accountant, Says Survey
SMBs who use an accounting professional with online accounting software experienced a 16 percent increase in revenue over businesses that do not.
September 30, 2014
Corporate Boards of Directors are Focusing More on Risk Oversight
Corporate boards are giving more attention to their risk oversight responsibilities, but as the risk landscape becomes increasingly complex, directors say they are less comfortable with their understanding of their company’s risk appetite, according to PwC’s 2014 Annual Corporate Directors Survey. The evolution of strategy oversight also continues, the report shows, as directors assess whether...…
September 30, 2014
Solutions14 Conference to Focus on Empowering Professional Accountants
Conference to focus on helping next generation of accounting professionals achieve a competitive edge that will help them differentiate their firm and adapt new clients to an ever changing marketplace.
September 30, 2014
What’s Buzzing in Your Office? Survey Shows Most Used and Abused Terms
Topping the list: "Dynamic," "deep dive" and "leverage" were the most overused and annoying business buzzwords cited by those polled.
September 30, 2014
2014 Review of Nonprofit Accounting Systems
Like all businesses, nonprofits need to track expenses, monitor income, create budgets, and produce financial statements. Also unlike their for-profit counterparts, nonprofits also need to track programs, membership dues, association fees, donations and grant funds.