Accounting

February 2, 2014 

Whether you were rooting for the Seahawks or the Broncos, or just watching for the commercials, you still probably didn't enjoy watching it as much as the owners and employees of one small California-based business.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

February 2, 2014 

The Financial Accounting Foundation has announced that Steven E. Buller, CPA, managing director and former chief financial officer of BlackRock, Inc., has been appointed chairman of the group's Advisory Council (FASAC). His term begins on February 1, 2014, and concludes on December 31, 2015.

February 1, 2014 

The number of Kansas City area payroll jobs slipped slightly in December from November, but 2013 ended with about 7,000 more jobs in the metro area than in December 2012.

January 31, 2014 

The privilege of teaching leadership skills to firm leaders allows me the opportunity to identify various issues that are frustrating and sometimes difficult to negotiate. One of the issues that have risen to the top of the list recently is the age old issue of “Interruptions.”

Sandra Wiley

January 31, 2014 

The Conference Board and PwC Measure of CEO Confidence , which had pulled back in the third quarter, increased in the fourth quarter of 2013. The Measure now stands at 60, up from 54 in the previous quarter (a reading of more than 50 points reflects more positive than negative responses).

January 31, 2014 

An analysis of charity care at the state's 24 nonprofit hospitals, conducted in cooperation with the New Hampshire Hospital Association, shows that hospitals here are more charitable than the national average and less profitable, although there are wide variations from one New Hampshire hospital to another.

January 30, 2014 

The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) today issued an interim Standard, IFRS 14 Regulatory Deferral Accounts. The aim of this interim Standard is to enhance the comparability of financial reporting by entities that are engaged in rate-regulated activities.

January 30, 2014 

The Accounting Degree Review has published a meta-ranking of the top 30 undergraduate accounting schools of 2014. Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management earned the top spot in the ranking.

January 29, 2014 

A budget is based on a set of assumptions that are generally not too far distant from the operating conditions under which it was formulated.

Bethany O'Hoyt

January 29, 2014 

Cloud accounting application Xero announced new partnerships today with personal bill tracking application Manilla and web hosting company Squarespace. The company’s announcement comes close after the December launch of Xero Payroll, the announcement of the product’s support for file attachments, and integrations with non-traditional lending sources like Kabbage and FundBox.

Brian Tankersley

January 29, 2014 

Now is a great time to sort out any anomalies that could complicate year-end and W-2 processing. And two of the most common are overpayments and repayments.

James Paille

January 29, 2014 

The new health insurance laws still have many individuals and small business owners scratching their heads. In an effort to help those in North Carolina, Tim Robinson, CPA, tax director at the CPA Firm of Hughes Pittman & Gupton, LLP, in the Raleigh-Durham area, recently spoke to financial executives on compliance with the Affordable Care…