Technology

September 18, 2019 

Professionals on the Move is a roundup of recent accounting firm leadership and staffing announcements.

September 17, 2019 

In FY2019, Deloitte increased its workforce to approximately 312,000 professionals, a 9 percent increase. Growth occurred across all regions, with more than 90,000 professionals hired.

September 17, 2019 

Conventional wisdom suggests the carrot has worked in the past, and young staff accountants devote their careers to chasing the carrot, angling to become a partner.

Garrett Wagner

September 17, 2019 

Powered by Oracle Cloud status recognizes OPN member solutions that have been tested or verified to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This achievement offers customers confidence that the partner's application meets the performance and ...

September 17, 2019 

More than half of responding executives at privately held organizations with 100 or more real estate and/or equipment leases in their portfolios describe lease accounting implementation as “difficult.”

September 17, 2019 

As part of the program, Vertex provides integration design and security standards for ISV partners and conducts rigorous review and testing processes. Vertex validated integrations support the most complex use cases to provide consistent, accurate ...

September 17, 2019 

In the business communication classes that I teach, I’m often asked how we accountants should respond when clients want to communicate with us via text messaging. Sometimes this question falls directly down generational lines ...

September 16, 2019 

Held Aug. 21-23 in conjunction with MACPA learning affiliate the Business Learning Institute, the Leadership Academy focuses on the unique skills tomorrow’s leaders will need to take their organizations to the next level and help their people grow and ...

September 16, 2019 

One aspect of an economic slowdown companies are prone to overlook involves taxes. Recessions tend to widen the tax gap, essentially the difference between how much taxpayers owe and how much they actually pay. An increase in the tax gap would almost assu

Wendy Walker

September 16, 2019 

Demand for accounting and finance professionals remains high according to July's jobs report numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Employers added 164,000 jobs in July, including 6,300 jobs in accounting and bookkeeping services.

September 16, 2019 

The three American companies, Symantec, Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint, undertook seven acquisitions each in the cybersecurity space during 2014–2018, while Sophos acquired six companies and Blackberry acquired five companies during the period.

September 16, 2019 

Only 72% of organizations have a formal T&E policy in place. Of these, 58% report that their travelers’ understanding of their T&E policies is, at best, “decent—but in need of improvement.”