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February 13, 2018 

Salaries on the Rise According to New Study

Show me the money! A new report suggests job seekers have a little more heft when it comes to their salaries. Continuing a recent trend, the most recent analysis in Randstad's U.S. Salary Guides show that salaries have risen an average of three percent...

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February 13, 2018 

Why and How: A Strategy for Innovation

Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...

Randy Johnston

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February 12, 2018 

Businesses Not Assessing Risks of Adopting Emerging Technologies

While businesses across the U.S. are increasing their focus on emerging technologies to help transform how they work and serve clients and customers, many are not assessing the risks that come with their adoption, according to KPMG LLP’s Tech Risk ...

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February 9, 2018 

3 Ways CFOs Can Accelerate Payback from New Technology

Though many recognize that implementing a modern cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is an obvious answer — many that take start the transition are surprised by marginal improvements, slow user adoption, and unchanged processes that still ...

Tom Kelly

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February 9, 2018 

Be Relentless in the Pursuit of Change

Has your firm started the transformation to advisory services? If not, in the not so distant future you will be too behind to catch up. That sounds harsh, but it’s better to face the reality that soon the gap will be so wide that your options for ...

Arianna Campbell

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February 8, 2018 

Why Bother with Project Accounting?

While standard financial accounting is essential for the health of your business, project accounting helps drive the success of individual engagements. Project accounting is more about the details – and viability – of every single active and inactive ...

 Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

February 8, 2018 

Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

Two conferences have been added to the AICPA ENGAGE lineup this year – the EDGE Career Development Conference, designed for standout young CPAs, and the CPA Firm Management Association’s National Practice Management Conference – bringing the total ...

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February 8, 2018 

EY Launches New Advanced Portal System EY Interact

The EY Americas Tax practice today launched EY Interact, the firm’s new program that provides real-time access and visibility to tax engagements. While collaboration portals exist, EY Interact gives clients one site to access all of their work products and engagement data, and to receive personalized alerts and secure document sharing across their EY tax...…

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February 7, 2018 

721 Sales Tax Rates Changed in 2017

According to the annual year-end tax rate study issued by Vertex Inc., a tax technology provider, there were 721 total US sales tax rate changes in 2017, a substantial increase of 29.21 percent from the 558 changes that occurred in 2016.