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April 20, 2018

Automation in finance: Get your team ready

Thanks to numerous technological advances, many routine accounting and finance tasks are likely to be automated in the near future.

April 12, 2018

How board members can perform oversight of cybersecurity risks

A new tool can help board members understand what questions to ask in their oversight of cybersecurity risk management.

April 3, 2018

How consumers are changing their behavior to combat ID theft

Four of out five respondents say they’ve changed their behavior in response to the threat of cyberbreaches affecting credit card and debit card processing systems.

April 2, 2018

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.

March 15, 2018

How blockchain might affect audit and assurance

A new report describes the changes that may be coming and how CPAs can take advantage of new opportunities the technology may provide.

March 7, 2018

A new staffing model for accounting firms

What will accounting firms and accounting departments look like after lower-level, repetitive tasks are automated and unprecedented amounts of data can be mined for business insights? That topic takes center stage in the second part of our annual accounting technology roundtable podcast.

March 1, 2018

Microsoft Office: 9 PivotTable enhancements in Excel 2016

Microsoft has made several improvements to Excel 2016’s PivotTables.

March 1, 2018

Microsoft Office: Excel’s versatile CONVERT function

How to use Excel’s CONVERT function to convert a multitude of units of measurements.

March 1, 2018

Factoring in the time value of money with Excel

This Technology Workshop illustrates how to leverage a number of functions to perform calculations in Excel involving the time value of money.

March 1, 2018

Online security: The password-recovery questions you should be answering

The challenge for organizations is to not make the security questions so difficult that users are unable to remember their answers later.

February 28, 2018

How AI, blockchain, and automation will reinvent accounting

Three of the profession’s top technology experts discuss the radical changes emerging technologies will bring to accounting — and accountants — over the next 1–5 years.

February 21, 2018

SEC publishes new requirements for cybersecurity disclosures

Public companies received new guidance from the SEC on the disclosures they should make related to cybersecurity.

February 1, 2018

Microsoft Word: Developing checklists in Word

You can convert your Word forms, surveys, and checklists to interactive media simply by inserting some clickable check boxes.

February 1, 2018

How to choose the right software for retirement planning

Weigh these factors when choosing financial planning software to help clients with retirement planning.

February 1, 2018

Survey software: Gather data with these applications

How to create forms, surveys, and checklists that are
instantly tabulated for you.

February 1, 2018

New features in Word 2016

Office 365’s subscription-based edition of Word 2016 has eight new noteworthy features.

February 1, 2018

Expanding your app-titude: Add a business line to your personal cellphone

A monthly look at apps and websites that can make the CPA’s job and life better.

January 29, 2018

Skills that help accounting professionals succeed alongside AI

Professionals will have to retain their traditional accounting skills and learn some new ones to succeed alongside AI.

January 18, 2018

20 cities in the running for Amazon HQ

The online behemoth plans to hire up to 50,000 workers in a second North American headquarters. Did your city make the list?

January 1, 2018

Microsoft Excel: Count the words in a cell

Use this formula to count the number of words in a Microsoft Excel cell.

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Start in high school to strengthen the accounting profession

A practitioner-led outreach program, born of a university, accounting professionals, and local community collaboration, shows how to successfully engage high school students with the modern accounting profession.