Technology

September 20, 2017 

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

September 19, 2017 

With new technologies poised to redefine the world of finance, one of the most important skills accounting and finance professionals can own today is future-readiness — the ability to be aware, predictive of, and adaptive to emerging trends and ...

September 19, 2017 

When natural disasters strike, Americans naturally want to help. And that feeling of compassion is doubled when those catastrophes happen to our neighbors, our fellow citizens.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

September 19, 2017 

The more accurately you can measure how overhead impacts each job’s bottom line, the more accurate your picture of job performance can be. This can also mean better data for estimating, which in turn can protect your bottom line on future jobs.

September 19, 2017 

In June 2017 Doc.It launched Doc.It Go, their mobile app engineered to work in conjunction with Doc.It Suite. With Doc.It Go, Doc.It Suite users have every opportunity to gain a productivity advantage as they handle some of the most common tasks ...

September 19, 2017 

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

September 18, 2017 

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 ...

September 18, 2017 

What can firms do to better prepare themselves for disaster? How can they carry through their trusted advisor role to help clients recover? With technology in today’s environment, we all know it’s easier to prepare and plan for a natural disaster ...

Scott Cytron

September 18, 2017 

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

September 18, 2017 

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

September 18, 2017 

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....…

September 18, 2017 

I have stayed busy this offseason. For instance, during tax season, my editor gave me an idea to turn all of my articles into continuing professional education (CPE) classes. I hated sitting through boring CPE classes that didn’t hold my attention.