Make Accounting Cool Already: The Biggest Danger to the Profession
Do you remember the “I’m a Mac” commercials of the late eighties? Released in the golden age of Apple advertising, the goal was simple: associate PC users with the "unpopular nerd" cliché, while representing Apple Mac users as young, creative, attractive, and lucky....
How Different States Approach Sales Tax Collection (Part 2)
Nexus refers to a state’s ability to collect from companies. A core part of the Wayfair decision, online sellers have needed to react to the 2018 decision quickly, as states began enforcing the law quickly. But 2020 may add more challenges to the way nexus is...
How Different States Approach Sales Tax Collection (Part 1)
Wayfair continues to impact the way online sellers operate. Calculation is a challenge, collection is a challenge, and planning is a challenge. Another challenge? Finding out whether you even need to do so for each state in the first place. Sales tax nexus is...
Delivering on the Promise of Back-Office Automation
Accountants and corporate finance professionals have spent 2020 in a state of transition. Moving from the office to the home office requires leaders to learn how to connect staff, provide real-time information, and overcome the variety of hurdles present in doing so....
Understand, Learn, Adapt, and Grow: How is the Controller Role Changing?
2020 has presented everyone in the field with challenges. Keeping staff in a recession, setting up teams for remote work, and trying to preemptively navigate the impact of the election all have left controllers across the United States looking for answers. A Wave in a...
The CPE Challenge: Affording Your Continued Education and Focusing on What Matters
It’s likely that by now, you’ve heard of the accounting talent skills gap and the efforts to fix it. But naturally, it’s not just the Millennials and Generation Z kids who are to blame. Too often, current professionals get stuck in a rut as well—a deadly proposition...
What Does the 2021 Hiring Market Look for Accounting Professionals?
Despite the pandemic, lockdowns, and recession environment, accountants have kept on with their livelihoods. Known as a career path with a weak talent pipeline and a skills gap, Accounting Today reports that the unemployment rate for accounting and finance positions...
Five Tips for a Safe Return to Work
Whether you are looking at a tempered, rotation-based return, a jump back to work starting sometime in 2021, or are slowly bringing a few back at a time, at some point, you’re going to start seeing your office fill up in the coming months. But… before that happens,...
The Robots Are Coming: How Accounting Robots Will Automate the Finance Back Office
As the finance and accounting world has evolved, so have the expectations of stakeholders both internal and external. Faster reports, better information, and deeper analysis all have been among the top priorities for the accounting and finance leader as we approach...
More Changes Coming to Lease Accounting? FASB Proposes 3 Changes
The lease rules are complicated. With public companies still working to clarify everything, private companies were given some recourse—a delay in adoption. But with the delay due in part to needed clarification, some of the changes were proposed in a recent letter...
Is a Work from Home Dress Code on the Horizon?
It’s likely that during the lockdowns has been—a bit more casual than your traditional office. Whether your workforce consists of people wearing button down shirts and pajama pants, the people who will dress up for Zoom calls, or the people who haven’t shown their...
Incorporating Sustainability Reporting into Your Business
Over the past few months, we’ve looked at the coming changes to the accounting profession. We’ve also looked at the changes to sustainability reporting. But for accounting professionals need to be ready for the new landscape, education needs to focus on the...
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