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March 6, 2018 

69% of CFOs Plan to Increase Tech Spending

Digital transformation is on the rise, with more than two-thirds (69 percent) of CFOs and senior financial executives planning to increase their investment in technologies that speed business change – according to a recent survey conducted by Grant ...

Firm Automation

February 28, 2018 

CFOs Say Automation is Negating Need for Excel Skills

CFOs are embracing automation across various areas of finance, driven in large part by a requirement to be more strategic and provide better analyses. That's according to the latest global CFO Indicator report from Adaptive Insights, which explores ...

 February 2018 Accounting & Audit Channel

February 20, 2018 

February 2018 Accounting & Audit Channel

Top Accounting Blogs & Social Media Are You Too Busy to be a Proactive, Future-Focused Advisor? Tom Hood, CPA, via LinkedIn.http://bit.ly/2EvnBoE New AICPA Chair Shares Vision of the Future. AICPA Insights blog.http://bit.ly/2nSflo8 Re-Engineer Your Audit Process. Wendy Cable from the Wolters Kluwer blog.http://bit.ly/2ET1cPW U.S. Treasury Official Says FDII Rules are BEPS Compliance. Robert Sledz from...…

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February 19, 2018 

2018 Review of Xero

Xero www.xero.com From the 2018 reviews of Cash Management systems. Xero is designed for self-employed and small business owners. Completely cloud-based, Xero is scalable, with three versions available, with each version offers additional functionality. A complete financial management product, Xero offers solid cash management functionality. Users can utilize the Xero dashboard for cash forecasting, with...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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February 19, 2018 

CES 2018: Accounting Hardware Highlights

Each January, over 170,000 technology and electronics enthusiasts descend upon Las Vegas to attend the world’s largest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to see the latest consumer technologies. While a significant amount of the media attention ...

Roman Kepczyk

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February 13, 2018 

Why and How: A Strategy for Innovation

Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...

Randy Johnston

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February 12, 2018 

Businesses Not Assessing Risks of Adopting Emerging Technologies

While businesses across the U.S. are increasing their focus on emerging technologies to help transform how they work and serve clients and customers, many are not assessing the risks that come with their adoption, according to KPMG LLP’s Tech Risk ...

 Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

February 8, 2018 

Keynote Speakers Announced for AICPA Engage

Two conferences have been added to the AICPA ENGAGE lineup this year – the EDGE Career Development Conference, designed for standout young CPAs, and the CPA Firm Management Association’s National Practice Management Conference – bringing the total ...

Firm Automation

February 6, 2018 

5 Qualities to Differentiate Your Accounting Firm

The days of thinking that “process” is something that only low-level staff and administrative staff work on are over. Those days should’ve been over ten years ago, but they’re definitely over today. In future-ready firms, process is a core strategic ...

Dustin Hostetler

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January 19, 2018 

Finance Sector Faces Disruptive Technologies

Electronic payments. Cryptocurrency. Artificial intelligence. What once were words in science fiction movies are moving into the realm of possibility in commercial payments and banking, according to TD Bank's 2017 Treasury Management Survey.

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January 16, 2018 

Affluent Americans Shopping More at Discount Retailers

42 percent of affluent shoppers now frequently shop at discount retailers versus only 27 percent at full price retailers, with 36 percent saying their discount shopping has increased. Twenty-one percent of affluent respondents also reported they were ...