Business & Industry
The labor market for finance and accounting professionals is tight—especially for CPAs. Here are some reasons your company should insist on hiring CPAs for key finance and leadership positions.
Financial Reporting / Government
GASB’s implementation guides play an integral role in applying GAAP to state and local governments. Learn what financial statement preparers and auditors need to know to use the guidance properly.
Financial Reporting / International
Are you ready? FASB and the IASB are on the fast track to converge their standards. Explore developments and major differences between U.S. and global accounting.
Careers / Practice Development
From Las Vegas to Minnesota, casinos offer a growth niche for CPAs with a background in auditing and a bent for excitement. Whether you’re a partner in a small firm or a new CPA with a talent for data mining, qualified accountants are needed to keep an eye on millions of unrecorded transactions.
Fraud / Technology
Want to put the power of an automated Excel template to work in your fraud-detection toolkit? A 20th century physicist named Frank Benford left auditors and others a principle that, with additional statistical analysis and Excel’s PivotTable feature, can help shine a spotlight on even well-camouflaged misdeeds.
Technology Workshop
New Web sites contain applications that allow you to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets via the Internet whether a colleague is on the other side of the globe or in an adjoining office. The applications resemble Word and Excel, so most users will be comfortable working with them.
Financial Reporting
Armed with two full years of Sarbanes-Oxley section 404 reports, the authors analyze whether section 404 has lived up to its intended purpose to improve the quality of financial reporting and share lessons for smaller public companies preparing to comply with section 404.
Technology Workshop
A colleague or a client is having computer trouble and needs your help, but the computer is in Texas and the expert who can fix the problem is in New Jersey. No problem. We’ll show you how to fix the computer by remote control.