September 2017 Small Business Channel

September 20, 2017 

September 2017 Small Business Channel

There may be nothing more certain than death and taxes, but Americans like to push thoughts of that first topic away. Perhaps that's why almost three-fourths of U.S. small businesses don't have a succession plan and most small business owners don't ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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September 20, 2017 

Female Partners: A Year Later, Where Are We?

In 2017, female accounting professionals still lack the support they need in the workplace in order to advance their careers. Last year, I wrote a column on the topic of females only being represented in 19% of accounting firm leadership positions, ...

Amy Vetter

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September 19, 2017 

CPA Tomorrowland

This is a tantalizing brave new world for younger accountants who like the idea of turning their penchant for number-crunching into a sexier profession, but what about those who are, ahem, reaching their golden age? It kind of sounds like rather than ...

Gail Perry

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September 18, 2017 

8 Factors Affecting Innovation for Financial Services Firms

The rise of customer choice will have profound implications on the design and distribution of products, and will likely force companies to shift roles. Platforms that offer the ability to engage with different financial institutions from a single ...

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September 18, 2017 

Leveraging Supplier Payment Networks for ePayments

The hardest problem in B2B payments isn’t moving the money. It’s simple enough to get payment to suppliers electronically through a credit card or ACH network. What’s hard is vendor enablement—knowing which suppliers accept what payment type, and ...

Sue Ellen Hodnot

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September 18, 2017 

Hardware Matters – Think About Working With None!

With so much focus on Cloud and Mobile, can you imagine using your technology with no hardware? Hardware has become so cheap, reliable and generally good, many of us take this part of our technology experience for granted. It has been ten years since ...

Randy Johnston

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September 18, 2017 

Cognitive Technologies are Critical for Advancing Corporate Real Estate Practices

In today’s digital era there is growing pressure on financial executives to produce more analytics, reports and actionable insight across the enterprise faster than ever before. With corporate real estate representing the second-largest expense for businesses today, finance teams need up-to-date visibility into real estate offerings in order to fully support financial and business goals....…