Digital Currency

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.

August 30, 2017 

CPE-eligible sessions include topics on value pricing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, social media, advisory services, technology gadgets, tricks for QuickBooks and Xero, financial fraud, acquisition strategies, sales tax nexus issues ...

August 21, 2017 

Daniel Vidal Age: 28 Employer: Expensify Title: Head of Business Development City/State: Portland, OR Website: www.expensify.com Twitter: @DanielVidal88   Having the opportunity to create Expensify’s partnership programs from scratch has been an incredible journey. My role at Expensify started informally. Initially, it was just overseeing conversations with all our non-customers: individuals whom we had no...…

August 16, 2017 

This year’s conference will be in San Francisco, one of the world’s most vibrant technology hubs. The Dec. 4-6 event, held in collaboration with CalCPA at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, will include tracks for leadership development and practice ...

August 3, 2017 

In the accounting profession, the biggest “ringing of the bell” is when we bring in a new client. In the financial services industry, their biggest “ringing of the bell” is when they “steal a star recruit” from a competitor. Maybe we readjust what’s ...

July 21, 2017 

Sixty-three percent of CFOs surveyed say they are expect revenue growth, one of the highest levels in the survey’s history, and only 18 percent claim a bias toward cost reduction, for a survey-high net value of plus 45 percent.

July 19, 2017 

AICPA Applauds Passage of Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Act The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2017, H.R. 1393.  The bill would simplify state income tax reporting and withholding rules for employees who sometimes work outside their home...…

June 20, 2017 

The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and CPA.com are jointly sponsoring an initiative to accelerate the growth of early-stage companies that could have significant impact on the accounting profession. The goal is to ...

June 13, 2017 

For the past several years, accounting firms have faced a leaky bucket in terms of staffing. While firms are currently growing—the latest AICPA survey estimates that more than 60 percent of firms are planning expansions—many face a talent shortage.

June 9, 2017 

B2B payments are fundamentally different than consumer payments, for three main reasons. First, there is the sheer volume of payments businesses make. A small enterprise might be making 100,000 payments a year on 200,000 invoices, and working with ...

May 22, 2017 

Some industry experts believe that blockchain technology can be used to revolutionize accounting in several areas, but the term and some of its descriptions have left many people confused. One of the best explanations of what blockchain technology is ...

Mary Ellen Biery