Accounting June 25, 2026
Report Suggests 40% of Workers Have Used AI to Make Fake Expense Receipts
The report found that employees are using AI tools to commit expense fraud, and they’re using AI tools paid for by their employer to do so.
April 12, 2016
Xero Adds Integration with Microsoft Outlook API
The cloud-based small business accounting system Xero now has integration with with Microsoft Outlook REST API, the company announced on Tuesday. This allows small businesses to get a single, 360 degree view of all interactions with their contacts and cus
April 7, 2016
4 Ways Accounting Firms Can Win In The “Age Of The Customer”
Focusing your organization around better client service requires you not only to work faster, but also smarter. You need to be agile to compete, drive transparency into your processes and be able to effortlessly mobilize organizational knowledge and ...
April 7, 2016
Accounting and Tax Firms Top List for Workplace Flexibility
It's almost the end of tax season, and most accounting and tax professionals are likely hunched over their multi-monitor displays for 16 hours a day, dreaming of vacationing on a private island.
April 5, 2016
Practice Management – An Opportunity to Grow
Probably more important than the tool is the culture of business development, discovery meetings, referral clients and omni-channel marketing. Since many accounting professionals have not been trained in marketing, this leads to common errors and ...
April 5, 2016
CFOs Becoming More Strategic
As further evidence that the role of CFO is becoming less tactical and more strategic, the survey found that only 8% of CFOs, or teams reporting directly to the CFO, are spending the bulk of their time closing the books each month. By contrast, the ...
March 31, 2016
Millennials, Boomers and Xers Are Confident in 2016 for Small Business
Millennials are the most positive about the business economy, with 62% reporting they’re more confident in the financial health of their business than last year. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers agree, 59% respectively report that they are more confident ...
March 31, 2016
Add Stock vs. Asset Sale as a Parameter to Business Valuation Engagements
Most, if not all American professional business appraisal standards are silent on the matter of the structure of the sale – an asset sale or stock sale. There are numerous reasons for the omission of the explicit consideration of transaction ...
March 30, 2016
Survey Shows Businesses Ditching Paper-Based Processes
The report found broad concern over paper-based processes, with cost (42 percent) and security (42 percent) cited as primary issues. 40 percent of Canadian respondents said cost reduction was the prime reason for digitization followed by improved ...
March 30, 2016
IRS To Hold Technology Crowdsourcing Contest
The nation's taxing agency is trying to step up its game when it comes to using technology to improve customer (aka taxpayer) interactions. The IRS wiill be hosting its first Tax Design Challenge crowdsourcing competition to encourage innovative ideas ...
March 30, 2016
KPMG Tops Rankings for Forensic, Investigations, Data & Tech Management and Litigation Valuation
KPMG's Forensic practice helps organizations achieve the highest level of integrity and manage the cost and risk of litigation, investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions by assisting with the prevention, detection and response to fraud ...
March 30, 2016
How to Optimize the Sales Value of An Accounting Firm
The best way to avoid a problem is to prevent it from happening in the first place. In the context of our topic, this means developing a practice over time that will ultimately be attractive to a buyer.
March 29, 2016
Aplos Releases New Nonprofit Fund Accounting System
Advanced Accounting includes features for nonprofits to manage budgets for each of their designated funds, enabling tight controls for managers. Organizations can also build custom reports by department, campaign, project or custom segment.