4 steps to prepare for the future of accounting
This article offers tips to make sure you're ready when the technology is.
Information management
The required step before AI and blockchain
Here are a few things to look for when selecting cloud accounting software that will provide you and your clients the most value.
Blockchain, machine learning, and a future accounting
Professionals who aren’t at the forefront of learning and testing ways to adopt these technologies risk getting left behind.
Guess how often you use your phone every day
A survey reveals how many times we check our phones, how many of us think we use our phones too much, and more.
Cloud computing: What should organizations move to the cloud?
You probably shouldn't put everything in the cloud, but moving nothing to the cloud isn't the right answer either.
Basic Excel time-saving tips
This column offers tips on features, shortcuts, and tools that can save time, improve the integrity of workbooks, and simplify data analysis.
Blockchain opens new era for cross-border payments
Blockchain could streamline how money moves between nations.
Blockchain defined
If you know a bit about bitcoin, blockchain will blow you away.
Make technology, not talent, your first priority
This column explores five reasons that technology has become an even higher strategic priority than talent.
Prevent Windows 10 from spying on you
Windows 10 can not only record your every keystroke, but it can also record your voice as you talk.
Why CPAs need to get a grip on blockchain
The decentralized ledger system may seem confusing, but it also adds up to new opportunities for savvy financial professionals.
9 time-saving tech tips for the busy CPA
If you’d like to be more efficient on the job, tech-focused solutions are a logical place to start.
Scanning the scanner market
Q: I’ve finally decided to break down, buy an inexpensive scanner, and go paperless; what type of scanner should I get?
How small businesses can keep data secure
Lisa Traina, CPA/CITP, CGMA, president and owner of information technology security firm Traina & Associates, suggests ways for organizations with limited IT budgets to keep their data secure.
Embracing the automated audit
Technology is changing the way audits are being performed, with greater access to data but also more data to sort through. Auditors can remain efficient and effective by employing applications designed to help automate some procedures.
Excel: The power of mapping
CPAs often have to produce recurring reports, such as quarterly balance sheets, from datasets, such as trial balances. The process can be tedious and prone to error, but an Excel technique called mapping can show the way to better results. Learn more in this Technology Workshop.
Cloud Security Alliance endorses AICPA SOC report
The AICPA’s framework for assessing the reliability of a cloud provider’s technology and systems controls has won the endorsement of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit coalition with members including Google, Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and PwC. The AICPA is a CSA affiliate member. In a position paper
Online shopping sends business productivity down the Amazon
With the arrival of the holiday shopping season, the analysis of a particular work email account serves as a cautionary tale to employers. Barb Bowes, a human resources consultant and president of Legacy Bowes Group in Winnipeg, Manitoba, offered the example of a company that found an average of 35
COSO sheds light on managing cloud risks
Management should begin control-related activities before an organization contracts with a cloud-computing service provider (CSP), according to guidance provided in a new thought paper released Wednesday by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The paper, Enterprise Risk Management for Cloud Computing, provides a thorough examination of
Data breaches emerge as tech sector’s fastest-rising risk factor
Concerns over technology breaches and data security are soaring among the largest U.S. tech companies, according to a new report from accounting and consulting firm BDO. An examination of the most recent SEC 10-K filings for the 100 biggest publicly traded technology companies found that 71% listed data-security breaches as
