Personal Financial Planning
With tuition costs rising rapidly, parents need to plan in advance to keep up. A growing number of states are offering programs, popularly known as QSTPs or 529 plans, to help families save for their children’s college costs.
Software
CPAs should consider creating their own databases with the new, user-friendly packages. This Technology Workshop takes you through the process step by step.
Cost Analysis
Deregulation of the energy industry is here. To pick the best energy management package, companies will have to understand the issues.
Assurance Services
A new assurance service comes to market. A SysTrust(sm) report can benefit both internal and external stakeholders of entities engaged in information-system-based commercial activity as well as those concerned about the reliability of key systems.
Staff Development
Mentoring is an age-old practice that’s still one of the best ways to build a staff.
Risk Management
Utility deregulation poses new risks for power-thirsty companies, but a hedging program can offset potentially wild cost swings. What a financial manager should know to keep electricity purchases under control.
Professional Issues
Many CPAs who contribute to their communities find that volunteer work can be both personally and professionally rewarding.
Professional Issues
Bob Elliott is taking the helm as AICPA chairman at a time when he says CPAs need to make the right moves—as individuals and as a profession—to ensure they are at the center of the action in the next century.
Insurance / Risk Management
Dual-trigger policies can make otherwise difficult-to-insure risks readily insurable by linking them to a second exposure with little correlation to the first.