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Protected: Spreadsheets and Stewardship: Accounting for Good
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13 Craziest Accounting Debacles and Tax Fraud Schemes That Flew Under the Radar
Artful accounting schemes have been going into the books since the Sumerians started scratching crop sales into clay tablets. No one wants to pay The Man a dime more than they have to. And, inevitably, some people will take it …
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6 Times Accountants Restored Our Faith in Humanity
It’s true, accountants have a reputation for applying the kind of hard logic it takes to let the numbers do the talking so that we don’t have to. And as capable as we are of churning through financial statements and …
posted in CareerThe Craftiest Small Business Accountants Will Adapt and Thrive Even as Clients Get Wiped-Out in the Wake of COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Orders
Many accountants go into the field with one goal in mind: working for themselves. Accounting has long been a field where it’s easy to do just that, primarily by serving the needs of other small businesses. It’s a practical, stable, …
posted in Business6 Ways Your Accounting Practice Can Emerge Stronger in the Post-Apocalyptic World
Well, let’s hope it’s not the actual apocalypse just yet. But as stay-home orders come down from on high and businesses shutter their doors on account of COVID-19, it sure feels a lot like the end-times for a lot of …
posted in BusinessHow Forensic Accountants Partner with Cybersecurity Teams When a Data Breach Occurs
Uncovering one of the most famous hacking episodes in history started with a $0.75 accounting discrepancy. In 1986, a remote user of a minicomputer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used up 9 seconds of processing time. Each department and …
posted in BusinessJust Completed a Master’s in Accounting? … Here’s 5 Things You Need to Be Thinking About
Okay, okay… so you just graduated with your master’s, you probably shouldn’t start worrying just yet. Go out and party a little bit first. Accountant party, of course, nothing too wild—get crazy and forget all about saving your receipt from …
posted in For StudentsAn Examination of Professional Ethics in Retrospect: The Enron/Arthur Anderson Scandal
In 2001, the Enron scandal erupted; by 2002, Arthur Anderson collapsed, and the Big Five Accounting firms became the Big Four. Even nearly twenty years on, this scandal and the ensuring collapse of one of the world’s most respected accounting …
posted in CareerMachine Learning and the Accounting Profession: Is It a Perfect Match or the End of the Accountant?
In coffee shops and at dinner tables around the country, you’ll likely hear doom-and-gloom conversations about technology squeezing the American worker out of a job; conversations that speak to the evils of an increasingly automated nation capable of producing goods …
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