Blogs - Accounting
Accounting Discretion or Earnings Management?Posted by (Chief Financial Officer Consultant at CMD Capital Formation LLC) | 05-15-2013Surveys completed by 169 CFOs showed, “CFOs believe that in any given period about 20% of firms manage earnings…only about 60% of earnings management is income increasing, while 40%... Read more... |
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QuickBooks Online–Changes for May 2013Posted by (President at The Sleeter Group, Inc.) | 05-15-2013Here’s a quick look at some recent, and upcoming, changes to QuickBooks Online. Some of these are already available, some will be coming out in the near future. Many of these features are... Read more... |
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Finding the Hidden Cash in Your OrganizationPosted by (VP at Basware UK) | 05-15-2013Cash is king but visibility of this cash is vital: if it’s obscured from view it’s essentially useless to the business and growth strategy and planning is then built on an inaccurate... Read more... |
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QuickBooks Sales Tax– Negative Value on Liability ReportPosted by (President at The Sleeter Group, Inc.) | 05-14-2013If you are using the sales tax feature in QuickBooks then you are most likely relying on the Sales Tax Liability report to show you the total taxable sales amount for your reporting period.... Read more... |
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The Demise of the QuickBooks Third-Party Developer?Posted by (President at The Sleeter Group, Inc.) | 05-09-2013I remember the first Intuit developer-Pro Advisor conference in San Francisco back in 2002, where I started friendships that have lasted throughout the decade. I remember meeting Bonnie Nagayama... Read more... |
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The Best Way to Avoid Fraud Is to Remove the OpportunityPosted by (Chief Financial Officer Consultant at CMD Capital Formation LLC) | 05-09-2013According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (“2012 Report to the Nations”) , most fraud was committed by a first-timer with a clean employment history. The longer the... Read more... |
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Cloud Accounting with QuickBooks Online–The DetailsPosted by (President at The Sleeter Group, Inc.) | 05-07-2013In our attempt to come up with a standard for comparing online accounting systems, we (Doug Sleeter, MB Raimondi and myself) came up with a list of features that we would like to see in a good... Read more... |
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Cloud Accounting with QuickBooks Online–An OverviewPosted by (President at The Sleeter Group, Inc.) | 05-02-2013As a part of my ongoing series of articles on cloud accounting programs for small businesses, lets take a look at QuickBooks Online. It’s been around for awhile, it’s from a company... Read more... |
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Fixing QuickBooks Problems: Free Tools You Can UsePosted by (President at The Sleeter Group, Inc.) | 04-30-2013Any time that you are working with a program that runs on Microsoft Windows you have to be ready to fix odd problems that can crop up. QuickBooks is no exception – it relies on many different... Read more... |
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A Call to the SEC to Require Valuation DisclosurePosted byKarl Sjogren (Blogger & Consulting CFO to startups & t.. at The Fairshare Model for Crowdfunding) | 04-25-2013
Title: Blogger & Consulting CFO to startups & t.. Company: The Fairshare Model for Crowdfunding The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act is a year old and we’re still waiting to see how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will implement it. In particular, it’s “... Read more... |
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PCAOB Proposal: Mandatory Auditor RotationPosted by (CIO & Co-Founder at Vibato, LLC & AccountingTemplates.com) | 04-24-2013An effort made by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) to require companies to rotate their auditors is receiving an overall negative response from the community it would affect. In... Read more... |
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The New Cash Management Approach - Pay SlowerPosted by (Chief Financial Officer Consultant at CMD Capital Formation LLC) | 04-23-2013Could you continue unscathed, if your customers stopped paying you for two to three months and instead paid within 60 and 100 days? On April 16, 2013 an article was published in the Wall Street... Read more... |
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