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VC Firms See Slight Improvement in Diversity
This year’s report found that about one-third of VC firms have a diversity strategy (32 percent) or an inclusion strategy (31 percent), a slight improvement from the first edition of the survey published in 2016, in which less than 20 percent of firms ...
Retail Group Warns Tariffs Could Hurt 2019 Holiday Shopping Season
As part of monthly consumer surveys conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, NRF has been tracking the public’s growing concern over the trade war. The June survey found 81 percent of consumers are “concerned the ongoing trade war will cause prices ...
Female Leaders in Accounting and Finance Look to Break the “Green” Ceiling
Embark’s inaugural GALf clinic, along with First Tee of Austin, brought together 15 female business leaders. The clinic was specifically designed for novice players where they learned golf basics, etiquette and skills from a female golf pro, followed ...
Can I Expense That? LOL: The Most Absurd Expense Report Items
Finance departments continually develop rigorous expense reporting guidelines, but that hasn’t stemmed the flow of eyebrow-raising requests by some employees, new research suggests. In a new survey, 56% of CFOs cited an increase in the number of inappropriate reimbursement submissions over the last three years. Some of the more egregious infractions included a cow, Super […]
Commercial Construction Industry Sees Increase in Business Confidence
More than half of contractors (52%) are highly confident about the ability of the market to provide new business opportunities in the next 12 months, an 11% increase over last quarter's findings. The backlog ratio—comparing contractors' average ...
Manufacturing Companies Struggling to Hire
The vast majority of American manufacturing companies are small businesses, and 75.3% of those businesses have fewer than 20 employees, according to new data gathered by SCORE, mentors to America's small businesses.
CFOs Expanding Role in Management
A notable development in corporate governance over the past two decades is that chief financial officers have considerably expanded their role in management, in many instances assuming the additional position of chief operating officer.
Thomson Reuters to Acquire Audit Company Confirmation
Thomson Reuters has acquired Confirmation, a leading provider of secure audit confirmation services. Confirmation has a 19-year history of providing digital confirmation services to more than 16,000 audit firms, 4,000 banks and departments and 5,000 ...