By following a common set of spreadsheet design rules, companies can produce more consistent workbooks that may be easier to review, edit, and use by others in their organizations.
How to reduce the pressures at work
Accountants, auditors, and finance professionals can use strategies to tackle productivity challenges and reduce stress.
Rethinking retention
Retention expert Chason Hecht says employee retention requires tapping into employees’ need for connectedness, challenge, and fulfillment.
FASB proposes simplifying accounting for share-based payments to nonemployees
The changes would expand the scope of transactions covered by ASC Topic 718.
The power of one firm: Risks of individualized practices
Rapid growth may bring unexpected changes that may challenge a CPA firm’s identity.
Improving fraud controls in complex accounting areas
Recommendations are made for accounting policies and ICFR.
SoulCycle: An intentional focus on culture
Weekly staff meetings and town hall-style meetings allow employees in the corporate office in New York City to ask honest questions and get a response.
SEC to require hyperlinks to exhibits in company filings
The commission also proposed an Inline XBRL requirement.
SEC gives advice on robo-advisers
The new technology is popular among young and tech-savvy investors.
FinREC publishes drafts on 5 revenue recognition issues
The latest topics include aerospace, broker-dealers, time-share, and utilities.
Retail technology: Amazon leapfrogs RFID shopping
Do you still believe RFID technology is the future?
Proposals would update UAA, model rules for accountancy
AICPA and NASBA issued drafts on best practices.
Meet the guest editors
This special issue is the result of our continuing efforts to deliver content that is useful and enjoyable. For this issue, we enlisted the help of four guest editors who are young CPAs.
Expanding your app-titude
EZ Texting lives up to its name in a big way … DialMyCalls does that and a whole lot more
ESOPs help some CPA firms with retention, succession
Some profitable firms have found that employee stock ownership plans have helped them preserve their culture and provide stability.
GMLCPA: Cross-training
CEO and founder Gabrielle Luoma, CPA, CGMA, cross-trains her staff so they understand both their own and their co-workers’ roles.
BNA: A completely flat hierarchy
At first glance, you might take Rock Hill, S.C.-based CPA firm BNA for a tech startup.
Innovation showcase: CPA employers on the cutting edge
Completely virtual workplaces. Flat hierarchies. Employees who set their own hours. Vacation stipends. Silicon Valley? Not quite. Meet seven employers that have radically rethought the ways they relate to their CPAs and are reinventing the accounting workplace.
Husband not entitled to married-filing-jointly status
The Tax Court refuses to invalidate a separate return filed by the taxpayer’s allegedly mentally ill wife.
Tax Court approves surgeon’s reclassification of interest in surgical center as passive
Despite K-1 reporting of income as for services, the taxpayer can net it against investment losses.
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