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IT Best Practices Checklist to Follow IRS Guidelines When Offshoring Accounting Staff
How to Unlock Worker Productivity in Finance and Beyond
Dockworkers Union to Suspend Strike Until Jan. 15 for Negotiations
CPE Webcast Nov. 14. – Selecting the Right Payroll Partner for Your Business Growth
New Survey Finds SOX Compliance Lagging in Use of Data & Automation
Among companies that reported an increase in their SOX compliance hours, 59 percent reported the number of hours went up by more than 10 percent over the prior year.
Surgent and NAEA Team Up to Offer Pathway to EA Program
The Pathway to EA Program will also enable NAEA to leverage Surgent’s UniversityPASS product to grow enrolled agent awareness at the university-level. UnviersityPASS is an award-winning learning management software that provides content for various ...
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 ...
3 Tips to Organize and Strengthen Your Client Relationships this Summer
As we become a more technologically advanced society, the high value we place on human interaction has surprisingly remained intact. That’s why now more than ever, many financial companies are integrating human-centered strategies into their business models. From Capital One introducing banking cafes to CPA firms providing more face-to-face advisor experiences, the human touch has […]
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 ...
Private Companies Face Pressure on Lease Accounting Transition
Most private firms that have started or completed the transition expect to seek additional help in upcoming years, the survey shows. Approximately 6 in 10 CFOs (61%) said they will use a combination of external and internal resources or external ...
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A roundup of recent news from the AICPA.