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Accounting issues unique to the rocket business
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The liabilities associated with unclaimed property laws.
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The intricacies of accounting for sports complexes.
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The accounting and reporting needed for private foundations
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The extra demands involved when there are private equity owners
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How a hospital accounts for its cost of goods sold.
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The accounting for community development financial institutions.
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The unique accounting issues associated with the wind power industry.
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Special accounting issues for the solar power industry
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The unique accounting issues faced by water authorities.
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AI features in existing accounting and auditing software.
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The pluses and minuses of earning an accounting PhD.
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Why the CPA firm business model causes so much employee turnover
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A summary of the key differences between US and UK GAAP
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A new year's resolution that might actually work.
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How to recognize revenue from non-monetary gifts
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Highlights of the accounting for farming cooperatives
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The various accounting issues associated with crops
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Unique aspects of the accounting for restaurants
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Why state boards of accountancy have different ethics requirements
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Lots of issues with the accounting for homeowners' associations
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Does your business generate enough cash to grow?
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Where enrolled agents come from and what they do
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How to structure a chart of accounts to deal with special items
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When should you hire a CFO, or just stick with your controller?
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The different types of debt, and when to use each one.
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How to account for the distribution of licensed music
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The ins and outs of how to account for life insurance
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Is transferring from accounting into the treasury department a good idea?
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How to make cash receipt reconciliations more effective.
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Differences between the role of a bookkeeper and an accountant
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Key accounting transactions for trucking operations
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How our earlier predictions turned out to be true
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The options available for valuing intangible assets.
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How to handle pass-through payments to other parties.
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How to construct a long-term cash flow forecast
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How to convert from the cash basis to the accrual basis of accounting
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How to account for commissions paid to an agent
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Accounting for crypto mining revenue and expenses
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Best practices for the paperless accounting office
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How the position varies for public and private companies
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How to make a standard payables email address work
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The process steps for making the right decision
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The characteristics of a successful payables clerk.
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Key performance characteristics of the position
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Characteristics of the ideal collections person
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The basis of accounting and the measurement focus
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How to use accounting to enhance the customer service experience
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What to read outside of the accounting standards
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What the auditor does in a compilation engagement
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Covers stolen checks, concealed checks, fake invoices, and more
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Covers fraud schemes related to collusion, theft, and more
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What it's like to work in the consulting division
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Skimming, fake refunds, receipt alterations, and more
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The skills and attributes of a successful audit partner
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How artificial intelligence might impact the accounting department.
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Why your current set of measures may not be sufficient, and where to look for more
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Why ethics can be so difficult for the accountant, and what to do about it
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How a tax audit works and how to mitigate its effects
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When adding more best practices may not be a good idea
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What is the best way to report performance measurements?
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When to use discounted cash flows analysis, and its advantages and disadvantages
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Revenue recognition implications of certain freight terms
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How to ensure that shipments are recorded in the correct period
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Handling the mid-month financials for both parties
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Keeping a close watch on unused or partial purchase orders
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How to pick accounting courses and books to improve your knowledge
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Why the elimination of extraordinary items is good, and why we should delete other reporting, as well
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The option to not recognize certain intangible assets
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How to make your case for business improvements
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Inventory monitoring for difficult inventory items
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The new requirement to disclose a going concern issue
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Where to look for the latest accounting standard updates
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The accounting challenges in a startup organization.
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When to provide training and how to motivate the staff
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Revenue recognition for contracts with customers
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How to segregate accounting duties in a small business
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The new accounting standard that allows goodwill amortization
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How to gain an understanding of undocumented controls and processes
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A look at underlying patterns that govern accounting behavior
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Controls for wire transfers, investments, and loans
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Tips on how to improve the reconciliation of accounts
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The pitfalls and possibilities of changing careers
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The incremental approach to organizational upgrades
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Advice regarding training for your accounting career
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Problems with the chart of accounts and account code structure
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Whether to obtain an accounting certification, and which one to pursue.
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When to use a soft close, and to what extent it should be used
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Accounting for a business when it is about to be liquidated
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Bob Poley discusses the mechanics of intercompany accounting
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The effect of new rule changes on continuing professional education for CPAs
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A new standard has been released that addresses how reclassified other comprehensive income items are to be reported
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Focusing on cost reduction through cost objects
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Dr. Philipp Schaberl discusses required changes to the reporting of other comprehensive income
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Making decisions when the business model changes
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A conversation with Neil Jennings, CEO of Accounting for International Development
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Issues to be aware of when using net present value analysis
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A GAAP rules change for testing intangible assets
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How to earn the largest return on a small cash investment
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Questions to ask when you evaluate a capital budgeting proposal
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Kyriba's Bob Stark discusses supply chain financing
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Who should supervise payables, credit and collections
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How to create a valuable value proposition for investor relations
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The correct structure of the cost accountant position
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How to reduce resource usage when accounting for fixed assets
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How to spend less time on accounts payable processing
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Changes in the rules for the testing of goodwill for impairment
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Methods for increasing the results of internal audits
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How to account for various types of marketing costs
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Improving payroll calculations and paying employees
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How to automate payroll data entry and reduce the number of payroll deductions
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Ways to improve the relationship with your lender
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A few issues to consider before you dispose of that fixed asset
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The FASB gets a sponsor, accounting for drug runners, and putting the clergy on your board of directors.
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The difficulty of electing directors under NYSE Rule 452
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How to simplify your overhead allocation calculations
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National Signing Day... and building relations with customers
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New rules about disclosing pro forma information for business combinations
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The reporting of loans to participants by defined contribution pension plans
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Outright CEO Kevin Reeth discusses their free accounting software
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Concur's Chris Juneau discusses employee spend management systems
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The pitfalls of switching careers from auditing to industry
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Why you should use horizontal analysis instead of variance analysis
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CEO Jeffrey Morgan discusses the role of the National Investor Relations Institute, as well as current investor relation issues.
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The fixed asset accounting differences under GAAP and IFRS
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Patrick Quinlan, CEO of Rivet Software, discusses XBRL tagging
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How to recognize revenue under the milestone method
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The inventory accounting differences under GAAP and IFRS
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John Carroll University's Professor Jerry Weinstein discusses recent changes in the standards for multiple deliverable arrangements.
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A conversation with Joseph St. Denis, Director of the PCAOB's Office of Research and Analysis
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The accounting shenanigans that contributed to the downfall of Lehman Brothers
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How the Accounting Best Practices show is recorded, and how it has changed over time
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Why you do non-deal road shows, and how to survive them
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What an investment banker does, what he costs, and how to spot a good one
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How to decide if you should record revenue at gross or net
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Recording reimbursed expenses as revenue, and why this is a bad idea
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Registering stock with Forms S-1, S-3, and S-8; plus shelf registrations
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How to decide which products should be cancelled
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A review of FASB Statement 165, Subsequent Events
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How to use the Regulation A exemption to raise funds in smaller amounts
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How to use the Regulation D exemption to raise funds from accredited investors
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Type A, B, and C reorganizations, triangular mergers, and reverse triangular mergers
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A discussion of the CFO's primary responsibilities, and what not to do.
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Setting up a credit policy and administering it
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Why a term sheet is useful, and its typical contents
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The process for going private, and some pitfalls
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How the accounting department can work from home
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Various techniques for handling accounts payable matching
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Ways to improve the efficiency of your accounts payable operation
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Key items to look for in a due diligence review
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Describes the controls that can be used during the creation of financial statements
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How to issue financial reports to the SEC as fast as possible
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Possible controls to install for your budgeting system
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How to compile a value for a target acquisition
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Some techniques for creating and issuing better invoices
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How to improve the accuracy and reliability of your budget model
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How to use (and not use) breakeven analysis and the margin of safety
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The mechanics of how to list on a major national stock exchange
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Greg Prow, CEO of Planitax, discusses tax technology
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How to construct a value stream mapping chart, and how it can be used to improve a process
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How to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory
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How to implement responsibility accounting within your organization
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How business combinations are affected by the new SFAS 141R accounting standard
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When to issue guidance, and what information to reveal
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board has overhauled the coding structure for GAAP
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Denise Curd discusses business valuation and SFAS 141R
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Dick Crandall explains lean accounting, and where it can be used
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How to use safe harbor clauses when making forward-looking statements
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How target costing can improve your product margins
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How to create a highly accurate inventory record keeping system
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Steve discusses how to allocate work to maximize collections.
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Steve discusses how to select the best payroll cycle.
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Steve discusses a variety of accounting best practices implementation issues, and how to avoid them.
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Steve interviews Rich Lanza about using the internal audit staff for profit recovery purposes.
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Steve interviews Carolyn Newman, president of Audimation Services, Inc., about IDEA data analysis software.
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Steve discusses accounting standards convergence with international accounting standards expert Barry Epstein.
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Steve interviews Ralph Nach about FASB Statements 157 and 159, which cover fair value measurements and the fair value option.
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Steve interviews Rich Lanza about the mechanics of the profit recovery process.
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Steve discusses the types of controls to use for throughput accounting.
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Steve discusses the implications of using throughput concepts on a series of financial analysis scenarios.
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Steve describes how throughput accounting concepts alter the capital budgeting process.
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Steve discusses how to manage a bottleneck operation in order to increase the level of throughput achieved.
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Steve discusses the drum-buffer-rope aspects of constraint management, as well as the sprint capacity and throughput concepts.
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Steve discusses how to create PDF versions of customer invoices, and how this can reduce collection problems.
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Steve discusses how to use a check scanner to send electronic check payments to the bank.
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Steve discusses time clocks that incorporate fingerprint scanners and hand shape readers, and in what situations they are most useful.
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Steve interviews Mark Nickson, President of Telliris, about timekeeping by telephone.
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Steve interviews Joshua Burnett, CEO of 9ci, Inc., about automatic cash application systems.
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Steve interviews
Ms. Mona Clayton, Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers,
about forensic accounting investigations, and also discusses logistics
measurements.
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Steve interviews Ms. Rossana Salaris, Senior VP of The Clearinghouse Payments Company, about their Universal Payment Identification Code, and also discusses sales measurements.
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Steve interviews Rich Lanza about profit leaks and recovery auditing, and also discusses metrics for the accounting department.
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Steve interviews Harry Cendrowski, co-author of The Fraud Deterrence Handbook and president of Cendrowski Selecky PC, about fraud deterrence.
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Ralph Nach interviews Steve Bragg about acquiring a public shell company.
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Mark
Polino (from Transit Television Network) discusses accounting
run charts, and Steve covers return
on investment measurements.
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Steve discusses operating performance measurements.
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Steve interviews Ralph Nach
regarding upcoming accounting standards in 2007, and discusses asset utilization measurements.
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Steve interviews Rich Lanza regarding how to locate Excel spreadsheet
errors, and discusses cash flow measurements.
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Steve interviews Ralph Nach
regarding accounting in the year 2006, and discusses liquidity measurements.
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Steve interviews Ralph Nach
regarding the risk assessment suite (part 2) and discusses inventory measurements.
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Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite and discusses payroll measurements.
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Steve discusses how to improve the speed of the close by compressing the billing process.
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Steve discusses how
to accelerate several payroll closing activities.
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Steve discusses how to improve the closing process by increasing inventory record accuracy.
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Steve discusses how to improve the speed of your close by altering the payables process.
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Steve discusses how to manage journal entries in order to achieve a faster close.
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Steve discusses how to restructure the financial statements in order to improve the speed of the closing process.
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Steve discusses how centralizing the accounting function improves the speed of the closing process.
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Steve discusses how to close the books fast by shifting work into the preceding month.
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Steve discusses how to create a fast close (part 2).
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Steve
discusses how to shift closing activities into the preceding month (part 1).
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Steve discusses payroll controls for both manual and computerized systems.
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Steve discusses accounts payable controls for both manual and computerized systems.
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Steve discusses controls for collections and cash receipts.
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Steve discusses billing controls for both manual and computerized systems.
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Steve discusses controls for procurement cards.
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Steve discusses controls for the credit department.
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Steve discusses controls for a computerized order entry system.
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Steve discusses controls for a manual order entry system.
