Management Accounting / Technology
Companies can use automated agreements to reduce errors and costs, save time and increase revenue. Finance, accounting and sales will benefit from streamlined processes.
Fraud
By exploiting a serious internal control deficiency, one disgruntled controller skimmed nearly half a million dollars from his employer.
Litigation Services
In future-damages trials, CPA expert witnesses may find determining the current value of future earnings through adjustments based on input factors—rather than just through discount rates—is easier for juries to understand.
Investment Planning
Even in last year’s disappointing market, sales of exchange-traded funds continued to grow. CPA/financial planners must understand this investment hybrid to advise clients on owning it.
For the Practicing Auditor
Professional Issues
Technology Workshop
Designed in the right way, a database can perform a host of complex tasks—from creating automatic invoices to preparing profit-margin reports.
Personal Financial Planning
CPAs who add financial planning to their list of client services must do more than just recommend investments. Real macroeconomic planning means looking at all aspects of a client’s financial life.
Insurance Issues
For CPA firms that maintain insurance practices, compliance is critical. When it comes to areas such as licensing, disclosure and recordkeeping, doing it right is more important than anything else
Marketing / Practice Management
When one CPA firm modeled a marketing program on football, it not only brought in business but taught new skills to everyone, from partners on down.
For the Practicing Auditor
Not-for-Profit Organizations
Traditional business performance measures are largely useless to not-for-profit organizations, so the Christian Children’s Fund developed an impact- and process-oriented evaluation system to help it achieve its worldwide goals.