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.
December 20, 2016
What Drives Workplace Happiness?
Happiness at work is something nearly everyone wants, but it varies by an employee's age, gender and field, among other factors. This is one of the findings of a new comprehensive study of more than 12,000 U.S. and Canadian workers by Robert Half, in ...
December 19, 2016
Apps We Love: To-Do Lists
We like lists. It goes with the territory of keeping track of numbers and transactions and all the moving pieces of our and our clients’ businesses. As we approach the end of the year, resolutions to be more efficient and organized are often on our minds.
December 19, 2016
For a Definition of Value, Just Ask Your Employees
The first step is specifying value from the standpoint of the customer. Accounting firms have multiple customers. The easiest to identify are, of course, the clients who pay you. But as you begin to understand the core of Lean, you need to identify ...
December 19, 2016
CCH Axcess has Streamlined Sachetta & Callahan’s Tax Practice
It was not so long ago that the administrative work accompanying the annual tax preparation process was arduous at best. Most tax accountants except the very youngest among us can remember the file cabinets, the piles of papers and workpaper folders ...
December 18, 2016
Intuit Opens Up TurboTax for Third Party Developers to Add Apps and Services
Intuit Inc. has announced the launch of an open platform that will, for the first time, enable developers to engage with the nearly 28 million people using the company’s flagship TurboTax Online product. The launch of an open platform will drive ...
December 16, 2016
Professionals on the Move – December 19, 2016
A roundup of professionals in the tax and accounting profession that have changed jobs and/or been promoted.
December 15, 2016
The Lure of Technology
There was also the luxury of moving at a leisurely pace. I was studying computer science, learning programming languages, solving problems too complex for paper and pencil and (non-handheld) calculators, but I had days and even weeks to solve a ...
December 15, 2016
The Human Element of Change
Process improvement requires a change of routines and habits that have been formed over time. While it is important to appeal to logic, feelings and emotions ultimately influence the decision to comply or resist. However, we often overlook or ...
December 13, 2016
Boost Your Productivity With This Personal Hack
We all struggle with demands on our time. Some of these are external and work-focused- requests from colleagues, phone call interruptions, and email. But others stem from our own internal weaknesses. In our conversations with session attendees, people ...
December 13, 2016
New Lease Accounting Standards Have Finance Depts Working Overtime
In some sectors, respondents expect to spend considerably more time and effort on lease accounting implementation. These sectors include: automotive (77.1 percent); health plans (65.9 percent); health care providers (62.8 percent); industrial products ...
December 13, 2016
Is Your Technology Meeting Client Expectations?
Too many firms are stuck in the paper age; continuing to do things the way they always have. Beyond the aversion to change is the deep-rooted belief that if they don’t send out a tangible stack of paper, the client will question the value they ...
December 13, 2016
Where Does Time Go?
It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone. The old adage that time flies when you’re having fun has certainly applied to our family with the addition of three new grandchildren this year! While we often track time in our lives by birthdays ...