Firm Management

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July 25, 2016 

How the ‘Reality Distortion Field’ Affects Accounting Firms

There are two sides of the reality distortion field. The positive is that it demonstrates how someone can bend reality in such a way that a difficult or impossible task is made to appear possible. The dark side is that people with this trait are so ...

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July 21, 2016 

Does Your Firm Have Technical Debt?

Technical debt is now a common term in the software development industry. Companies spend money assessing, controlling and “paying down” their technical debt in order to keep their products agile enough to compete in an environment where slow to market or

Jim Boomer

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July 19, 2016 

Improve Your Firm’s Audit Business Through Routine Maintenance

When you maintain the status quo at your firm long enough to become detrimental to your success, the result isn’t typically an obvious or immediate catastrophe waiting to strike at some ill-timed moment—as when you neglect routine maintenance on your ...

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July 19, 2016 

Clinton or Trump? Politics Invades the Workplace

Management is more likely than employees to argue about candidates, with employers in information technology (47 percent) taking the lead, followed by those in manufacturing (37 percent).

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July 19, 2016 

IPSASB Consultative Advisory Group Holds Inaugural Meeting

The IPSASB CAG membership includes those engaged in the preparation, audit, or evaluation of public sector financial reports. It advises on the IPSASB’s strategy, work program, and agenda, including projects from technical and adoption as well as ...