Accounting Topics

Pittsburgh looks to save money with Gmail migration

City moves to replace Microsoft Exchange with Google Apps

What to Do About the Audit Function?

Over the past few months, several members of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board have expressed concerns about the usefulness of the current audit process.

How to fix Five Thorny Excel Problems

Have you ever wondered if Microsoft Excel was deliberately designed to frustrate?

Budgeting: Garbage In, Garbage Out (Part 2)

Budgeting and planning can be greatly improved, if finance learns to be more collaborative.

Budgeting: Garbage In, Garbage Out (Part I)

Finance, while admired for accuracy and attention to detail, often fails in transforming those numbers into meaningful action and results. But there's hope.

Accounting software guide

Choosing new accounting software can be a daunting task. CFO World's guide to which small business accounting software you should buy aims to help you in the early stages of the buying process. It includes descriptions of the various types of accounting software out there, including packaged and online or SaaS versions and provides an overview of the Australian small business accounting software market.

Tackling the bank's credit squeeze

Tackling the bank squeeze head on: negotiating with the banks, finding new sources of finance

The new rules on ROI

How does a CFO determine whether a new venture is a good investment decision or not? Most CFOs applied internal rate of return (IRR) or net present value (NPV) calculations. But ROI calculations based on those are only as good as the assumptions of risk. A new paradigm is emerging.

New QuickBooks for Mac Adds Multi-User Support

The accounting program gives businesses the ability to set user permissions betters integrates with Apple's spreadsheet app

Another forestry firm is felled

Forestry projects operator Willmott Forests Ltd has been placed in receivership, following the downward spiral of collapsed managed investment scheme (MIS) operators Timbercorp and Great Southern.

The CFO’s guide to managing Key Performance Indicators

CFO World debunks some of the myths surrounding KPIs.

Best-of-breed accounting or integrated suite?

The best-of-breed vs. integrated suite accounting battle has been ongoing since integrated enterprise resource planning software first came on the scene. Here are 10 questions you need to ask before making a decision for your business.

Supreme Court Didn't Touch The Real Issue With Sarbox

My biggest beef with SOX has always been how the now-unconstitutional Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) let the auditing firms develop their own standards for what constituted "SOX compliance".

Supreme Court strikes down one part of Sarbanes-Oxley

The court rules that it's too hard to remove members of an oversight board

ATO offshore disclosure offer expires June 30

Taxpayers caught with undeclared offshore income after the program expires will be subject to much stiffer financial penalties, and a higher likelihood of prosecution

The Henry Review: Implications for CFOs

The Henry Review is a mixed bag for the CFO

SMB Accounting Software Buying Guide

Choosing new accounting software can be a daunting task. CFO World's guide to which small business accounting software you should buy aims to help you in the early stages of the buying process. It includes descriptions of the various types of accounting software out there, including packaged and online or SaaS versions and provides an overview of the Australian small business accounting software market.

5 Questions with NetSuite's CFO

A high-tech CFO who makes sales calls? It's all in a day's work for NetSuite CFO Jim McGeever. Here's his take on how SaaS is beating big vendor FUD, the Larry Ellison effect, and the future of business apps.

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