Accounting June 28, 2025
Nominations Open for 2025 Innovation Awards
The Innovation Awards highlight technologies that are shaping the profession and small businesses through increased collaboration and productivity.
April 19, 2017
Porte Brown Named as One of the 2017 Best Places to Work in Illinois
Porte Brown LLC, a Chicagoland firm, has been named as one of the 2017 Best Places to Work in Illinois. The Best Places to Work competition is a combination survey, study and awards ceremony established to identify the top employers in the state of ...
April 19, 2017
Cognitive Computing and the Future of the Accounting Profession
Cognitive computing is especially valuable in tax compliance, an area that is heavily regulated and often faces rapid changes. The process of preparing filings, ensuring compliance, and optimizing a business’ tax position is complicated, resource ...
April 17, 2017
Manufacturers Increase Use of Internet of Things
Because cyber attackers often exploit third-party vulnerabilities to gain access to their eventual targets, any security gaps in manufacturers’ supplier networks could be dangerous. Most manufacturers are cognizant of and actively address third-party ...
April 17, 2017
How Professional Services Firms Use Software Determines Success
Working in professional services means constantly, obsessively, thinking about how to serve clients better. Some decisions are intuitive--talented workers, more resources, quick responses. In comparison, the relative digitalization of a services ...
April 14, 2017
How Accountants Can Help Clients Avoid Data Breaches
In today’s digital environment, employees are connected continuously to enterprise networks whether they are in the office, working offsite or on vacation in another country. At the same time, data breaches are growing in complexity and sophistication.
April 13, 2017
Deloitte Foundation Helps Develop Next-Gen Audit and Accounting Talent
For more than 50 years, the annual seminars, hosted by the Deloitte Foundation and the American Accounting Association, have provided cutting-edge resources and hundreds of case studies that keep university faculty and their students connected to the ...
April 13, 2017
Moving to the Cloud: One Firm’s Journey from the “Aha Moment” to Finding Success and Comfort
Like many of you in the accounting profession, I attend several accounting and technology conferences each year to listen to industry leaders and network with my peers. I read countless articles and survey result reports about the future of accounting ...
April 12, 2017
Should Controllers and Accounting Depts Be More Involved in Corporate Strategy?
Nearly all organizations (91.2 percent) expect the controllership function — corporate controllers, chief accounting officers (CAO) and their teams — to more actively shape and execute strategic priorities, according to a recent Deloitte poll of over ...
April 11, 2017
Professionals on the Move – April 11, 2017
A roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
April 10, 2017
Vertex and Strategic Accountants Partner for Communications Tax Software
Differences in taxation across jurisdictions and the sheer complexity of communications services taxation require detailed awareness of rules, rates and service categories to avoid triggering audit penalties or class action lawsuits, a challenge even ...
April 10, 2017
Young Millennials Worried About Self-Driving Cars
What's more, in what may be a reality check for the automotive and technology industries, the upcoming generation of car buyers is more worried than excited about the concept of self-driving cars, with concerns about safety, viruses, hacks or other ...
April 7, 2017
AuditFile Offers Integration with Microsoft Office Online
The enhancement empowers AuditFile users to dynamically create and edit files with the .xlsx and .docx extensions from within AuditFile’s cloud environment, without the need to download or use desktop Office tools. Additionally, multiple users can work...