AICPA Corporate Finance Insider 2010
Newsletter:
Covers financial management, corporate compliance, fraud prevention, technology, accounts payable, T&E, exec compensation, corporate HR, risk management, IFRS & more news-breaking issues for CPAs, CFOs & other key decision-makers. Subscription is free & open to AICPA non-members.
Published on October 23, 2012
AICPA Survey Shows Growing IFRS Support
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Once the timing of IFRS convergence is clarified, IFRS preparation in the form of in-depth training and information technology readiness will be especially important.
Published on January 28, 2011
How Does Your Firms Risk Management Process Stack Up
Article:
Key strategies on how to establish, maintain and structure an effective internal audit function revealed.
Published on January 28, 2011
Whats Your Line of Defense When Your Vendors Are Hit With Bankruptcy
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What do you do when you receive a notice in the mail that a firm that you used to do business with two years ago filed bankruptcy and left you with a bad debt for thousands of dollars is now demanding the repayment of all payments made to you during
Published on January 28, 2011
Knowledge Sharing to Deter and Detect Fraud
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Tips for improving communications among the financial reporting supply chain.
Published on January 28, 2011
CFO Outlook 2011 Expect the Unexpected
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"If we're doing things in this planning cycle the same way we've been doing it for years, then we probably need to step back and take a look at the process." How you can plan for the age of "persistent uncertainty."
Published on January 28, 2011
Turning Towards Cautious Optimism
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The AICPA/UNC Kenan-Flagler Business & Industry Economic Outlook Survey Q2 2010 brings clarity to many of the issues of greatest importance to today’s CPAs. Issues addressed in the survey range from the long-term economic forecast and a timetable for the economy to return to pre-recession levels of business to inflation,
Published on January 28, 2011
Showcase Your Company and Promote Your Brand
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In my April and May articles, I discussed how CPAs and CPA firms can use LinkedIn to build a community of customers, employees, vendors, referral sources and fans. Now, it’s time to look at Facebook. Facebook offers two options to an organization that is looking to build a community. First,
Published on January 28, 2011
IFRS in the U.S.
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The United States and the world are on a clear path to move to one set of global accounting standards. In fact, the one common theme we’ve seen in comments about the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposal to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is that everyone believes
Published on January 28, 2011
Drowning in Paper
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Accounting attracts mountains of paper. This is especially true in the accounts payable function in which the main responsibility is invoice processing. Savvy organizations have found that imaging can reduce both the amount of paper clogging the department as well as the headcount needed to process the paper drastically.
Published on January 28, 2011
In the Face of Terrorism and Natural Disasters
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Andrew was then. Now we have Katrina, tsunamis and terrorism. You never know when any of these will strike your city or hit a town near you. The last thing you want is a security breach of your clients’ information because of a lack of a good disaster recovery plan
Published on January 28, 2011
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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I’m willing to bet that when President Obama signed the healthcare bill he did not realize the impact it would have on the master vendor files of organizations of all sizes. This is on top of the impending nightmare for accounting professionals who are responsible for 1099 reporting. Except for
Published on January 28, 2011
Increase Cash-Flow With Cost Segregation
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At its core, cost segregation is a fairly simple tax-deferral concept — you save on current taxes by reclassifying Internal Revenue Code Sec. 1250, real property, to Sec. 1245, personal property. From a tax perspective, this reclassification can generate huge tax and cash flow savings. Real property is depreciated over
Published on January 28, 2011
Improving MD&A Reporting
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EBRC's new MD&A Taxonomy has a more robust set of standardized tags and definitions. Learn about and comment on elements in the taxonomy. As more and more companies get onboard to provide their investors with a better way to obtain company informat
Published on January 28, 2011
Catastrophe Claims Evaluation
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With the continued leaking of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, violent storms in the Midwest, the beginning of fire season in the west and hurricane season in the east, forensic accountants will have their work cut out for them as they strive to quantify the myriad claims that always
Published on January 28, 2011