Ten States Where Accounting Professionals’ Salaries Go Further
You got into the accounting space to handle the money—it shouldn’t hurt to make a decent living doing so. From the staff accountant role to the controller to the CFO, everyone in the field plays a significant role for the company and most are compensated well for the...
How to Use FP&A to Create Value
Financial planning and analysis has become increasingly important in recent years. After the complexities that occurred in the past year, budgeting has been thrown out the window, leaders have found themselves working with unreliable information, and many question the...
Lease Accounting: Getting the Job Done with Limited Resources
Whether you set out to achieve compliance with ASC 842 and paused when the regulation date shifted, or this is your first time preparing for compliance, your options continue to grow. Though you may have gotten a lifeline from the delay, you still can’t ignore the...
Building a Hybrid Work Environment for the Return to Work
Over the past year, remote work has been the de facto policy at most organizations. Driven by lockdowns policies and concern for worker safety, the transition from in-person work to working from home has become familiar to a lot of us. But vaccines are here,...
Is AI Finally Coming for Your Job?
It’s been a running theme in the corporate finance space for years now—Rosey the Robot will make the move from the Jetson’s cartoon maid to controller’s best friend. Well, as predicted, this is happening; and as predicted, AI is finding a home in positions it...
Startup Benchmarking: How Is COVID Impacting the Growth Stage?
“The trajectory of the US economy depends a great deal upon the actions of and investments into America’s startups—innovation, entrepreneurship, and rapid growth are their hallmarks.” This according to a recent report from Deloitte points to the role of these...
Speaking the Language: Jargon, Buzzwords, and Corporate Finance Acronyms
Every profession speaks its own language. Marketing folks have their own terms, IT teams are chock full of unique words and phrases, and those in the accounting and finance department communicate in their own unique way. Corporate accounting has seen its fair share of...
5 Ways to Reduce Spreadsheet Dependency
For most finance professionals, spreadsheets are the go-to resource for determining how well a business is performing. The ability to design a complex spreadsheet for crunching numbers is a prized skill to many hiring managers. Any seasoned finance professional...
How Can Data Analytics Enhance Financial Decision Making?
Data analytics can be applied to financial analysis in a variety of ways such as developing company goals and objectives, creating financial policy, evaluating economic trends, and more. Data analytics can give CFOs, financial managers, controllers, accounting...
Controller to CFO: Ten Roles for Tomorrow’s Finance Chief
For aspiring finance executives, you’ve probably come to know a thing or two about the Four Faces—Strategist, Catalyst, Steward, and Operator. Still painting a healthy picture for those looking to climb the ladder, the last few years has seen these roles grow and...
Travel and Expense Management: The Journey of a Coffee Receipt
Things are coming back. Each week looks better than the last, with bookings for one airline running just 20% below 2019 levels. The number of people passing through airport gates is starting to climb as well, hitting 1 million travelers per day between March 11...
Looking at the Regulatory Plans for 2021
With every change in the executive branch, so comes regulatory change. Presidents get to appoint their people to head the alphabet soup of regulatory bodies, and with each person appointed comes a vision and plan for how this department operates. In the past few...
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