The ins and outs of real estate accounting

Why are there so few CPAs?

Lots of issues with the accounting for homeowners' associations

The nuances of Islamic accounting

The key accounting issues for car dealerships

Designing a cash duration model

Does your business generate enough cash to grow?

Where enrolled agents come from and what they do

How to structure a chart of accounts to deal with special items

When should you hire a CFO, or just stick with your controller?

The different types of debt, and when to use each one.

Fundraising with the SEC's Regulation A+

How to account for the distribution of licensed music

The nature of hidden reserves

The ins and outs of how to account for life insurance

Is transferring from accounting into the treasury department a good idea?

How to make cash receipt reconciliations more effective.

Differences between the role of a bookkeeper and an accountant

How to streamline Form W-9 processing

Key accounting transactions for trucking operations

How our earlier predictions turned out to be true

The options available for valuing intangible assets.

How to handle pass-through payments to other parties.

When to use intercompany eliminations

What is technical accounting?

How to handle a complete system conversion

What to include in a fixed asset policy

How to construct a long-term cash flow forecast

How to convert from the cash basis to the accrual basis of accounting

Can accountants alter Formula 1 results?

How a SPAC operates

How to account for commissions paid to an agent

What to include in the cost of goods sold

The pros and cons of open book management

How it works and when to use it

Has the pandemic changed consulting?

How useful are bank feeds?

What to do in your first week as a controller.

Accounting for crypto mining revenue and expenses

Best practices for the paperless accounting office

How the position varies for public and private companies

How to make a standard payables email address work

Why we should not use too many policies

The process steps for making the right decision

The three-step process

Why we need quantity and quality measurements

Unique accounting issues

How to record NFT transactions

A new currency called the British Boris?

The characteristics of a successful payables clerk.

Key performance characteristics of the position

Characteristics of the ideal collections person

Unique accounting issues

Unique accounting issues

How to predict solvency problems

How to structure your spare time

How the model works

The need to go deep on the details

Unique accounting issues

How to differentiate between them

Some issues to consider

Unique accounting issues

When to recognize the expense

Dealing with a difficult relationship

How to make your budget more rebust

Unique accounting issues

The best indicators to use

Disclosures and accounting requirements

Suggestions for Improvement

Recent changes

Things to look out for

The joys of nationwide sales taxes

Best practices to consider

Why they should not be reported by accounting

How to recover from fraud

The role of accounting and finance

Unique accounting issues

Rules and reports

The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

Budgeting

The basis of accounting and the measurement focus

Types of funds

How to use accounting to enhance the customer service experience

What the auditor does during a review

Some thoughts about what to do

Various accounting issues related to SaaS

Unique accounting issues

What to read outside of the accounting standards

An overview

An overview

Unique Accounting issues

How a bank makes lending decisions

Advice on what to do

How the process works

Unique accounting issues

Tricks of the trade

Ways to select the best employees

Unique accounting issues

Improving the effectiveness of your reports

Costing issues to be aware of

Unique accounting issues

How to conduct the integration

Issues to be aware of

What the auditor does in a compilation engagement

Unique accounting issues

Why it can be so unreliable

Unique accounting issues

Underlying principles of revenue management

Covers stolen checks, concealed checks, fake invoices, and more

Issues to consider

Covers fraud schemes related to collusion, theft, and more

Unique accounting issues for coin resellers

Unique accounting issues

Two new ways to sell shares

What it's like to work in the consulting division

The alternatives available

Skimming, fake refunds, receipt alterations, and more

The skills and attributes of a successful audit partner

How artificial intelligence might impact the accounting department.

How to deal with accounting automation

Things to consider before you switch jobs

Why your current set of measures may not be sufficient, and where to look for more

Unique accounting issues

Why ethics can be so difficult for the accountant, and what to do about it

What to do when a subpoena arrives

How a tax audit works and how to mitigate its effects

The intricacies of sales and use taxes

When adding more best practices may not be a good idea

The process for straightening out the books

Types of continuous learning

When and how to use the reserve

Accounting issues faced by contractors

Lessons learned as a new controller

What is the best way to report performance measurements?

The core concepts to remember

Issues to consider

What are the differences?

The techniques to use

The techniques used

Why people alter the financial statements

When to use discounted cash flows analysis, and its advantages and disadvantages

Lease accounting is now more complex

Where the industry might be in 10 years

How to manage working capital

Tips for how to recover transaction fees

When to Upgrade Processes

Best practices for assimilating new hires

Where to search for qualified accountants

Is it worthwhile?

Revenue recognition implications of certain freight terms

Managing the Relationship

Tips for the CFO

High pay for non-management positions

How to ensure that shipments are recorded in the correct period

Making the LCM rule even more complex

Tips for creating a better book

Handling the mid-month financials for both parties

Keeping a close watch on unused or partial purchase orders

Which assets to count and how to do it

How to pick accounting courses and books to improve your knowledge

The steps to take to become a CFO

How to clean up accounting spreadsheets

How to install a cycle counting program

Why the elimination of extraordinary items is good, and why we should delete other reporting, as well

The specifics of being an accounting intern

The option to not recognize certain intangible assets

How to make your case for business improvements

Tips for a higher level of prediction accuracy

Inventory monitoring for difficult inventory items

The new requirement to disclose a going concern issue

Tips for getting an internship

How to decide whether an error is material

Where to look for the latest accounting standard updates

The accounting challenges in a startup organization.

When to provide training and how to motivate the staff

Revenue recognition for contracts with customers

How to segregate accounting duties in a small business

How to account for freight

What a manager expects from a staff accountant

The new accounting standard that allows goodwill amortization

How to gain an understanding of undocumented controls and processes

A look at underlying patterns that govern accounting behavior

Tips on proper use of accruals and deferrals

How to maximize cash from collections

Controls for wire transfers, investments, and loans

How to reduce the risk of petty cash losses

Tips on how to improve the reconciliation of accounts

The pitfalls and possibilities of changing careers

How much systems integration is necessary?

The incremental approach to organizational upgrades

Advice regarding training for your accounting career

Problems with the chart of accounts and account code structure

Whether to obtain an accounting certification, and which one to pursue.

Guidelines for when to write a procedure

When to use a soft close, and to what extent it should be used

Accounting for a business when it is about to be liquidated

Bob Poley discusses the mechanics of intercompany accounting

Why not to use the senior accountant title

The effect of new rule changes on continuing professional education for CPAs

A new standard has been released that addresses how reclassified other comprehensive income items are to be reported

How not to cut expenses

Focusing on cost reduction through cost objects

Dr. Philipp Schaberl discusses required changes to the reporting of other comprehensive income

Making decisions when the business model changes

How to spot valid cost reductions

A conversation with Neil Jennings, CEO of Accounting for International Development

How to refine the use of accounting reports

Issues to be aware of when using net present value analysis

A GAAP rules change for testing intangible assets

How to earn the largest return on a small cash investment

Questions to ask when you evaluate a capital budgeting proposal

Kyriba's Bob Stark discusses supply chain financing

Who should supervise payables, credit and collections

How to create a valuable value proposition for investor relations

The correct structure of the cost accountant position

How to reduce resource usage when accounting for fixed assets

How to spend less time on accounts payable processing

Operating cash receipts with minimal resources

Changes in the rules for the testing of goodwill for impairment

Techniques for customizing your control system

Methods for increasing the results of internal audits

How to account for various types of marketing costs

What to look for in consolidation software

Alternatives to using a budget

Why a budget can be bad for your business

Payroll improvement implementation issues.

Improving payroll calculations and paying employees

How to automate payroll data entry and reduce the number of payroll deductions

How to reduce the amount of payroll data entry

Things to consider before you refinance debt

Ways to improve the relationship with your lender

The many variations on the controller position

A few issues to consider before you dispose of that fixed asset

The FASB gets a sponsor, accounting for drug runners, and putting the clergy on your board of directors.

The difficulty of electing directors under NYSE Rule 452

How to simplify your overhead allocation calculations

National Signing Day... and building relations with customers

The circumstances under which costs can change

New rules about disclosing pro forma information for business combinations

The reporting of loans to participants by defined contribution pension plans

Outright CEO Kevin Reeth discusses their free accounting software

Concur's Chris Juneau discusses employee spend management systems

The pitfalls of switching careers from auditing to industry

Why you should use horizontal analysis instead of variance analysis

CEO Jeffrey Morgan discusses the role of the National Investor Relations Institute, as well as current investor relation issues.

The fixed asset accounting differences under GAAP and IFRS

Patrick Quinlan, CEO of Rivet Software, discusses XBRL tagging

How to recognize revenue under the milestone method

The inventory accounting differences under GAAP and IFRS

John Carroll University's Professor Jerry Weinstein discusses recent changes in the standards for multiple deliverable arrangements.

A conversation with Joseph St. Denis, Director of the PCAOB's Office of Research and Analysis

The right way to reduce expenses

The mechanics of a fund raising road show

The accounting shenanigans that contributed to the downfall of Lehman Brothers

How the Accounting Best Practices show is recorded, and how it has changed over time

Why you do non-deal road shows, and how to survive them

What an investment banker does, what he costs, and how to spot a good one

How to decide if you should record revenue at gross or net

Recording reimbursed expenses as revenue, and why this is a bad idea

Setting up a trading plan under Rule 10b5-1

How to sell restricted stock using Rule 144

Registering stock with Forms S-1, S-3, and S-8; plus shelf registrations

How to decide which products should be cancelled

A review of FASB Statement 165, Subsequent Events

How to use the Regulation A exemption to raise funds in smaller amounts

How to use the Regulation D exemption to raise funds from accredited investors

Type A, B, and C reorganizations, triangular mergers, and reverse triangular mergers

A discussion of the CFO's primary responsibilities, and what not to do.

Setting up a credit policy and administering it

Why a term sheet is useful, and its typical contents

The process for going private, and some pitfalls

How the accounting department can work from home

Various techniques for handling accounts payable matching

Ways to improve the efficiency of your accounts payable operation

Key items to look for in a due diligence review

How to deal with the outside analyst

Describes the controls that can be used during the creation of financial statements

How to issue financial reports to the SEC as fast as possible

Possible controls to install for your budgeting system

How to compile a value for a target acquisition

How to deal with short sellers

Some techniques for creating and issuing better invoices

How to streamline your office

How to improve the accuracy and reliability of your budget model

How to use (and not use) breakeven analysis and the margin of safety

The mechanics of how to list on a major national stock exchange

Greg Prow, CEO of Planitax, discusses tax technology

How to construct a value stream mapping chart, and how it can be used to improve a process

How to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory

How to implement responsibility accounting within your organization

How business combinations are affected by the new SFAS 141R accounting standard

When to issue guidance, and what information to reveal

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has overhauled the coding structure for GAAP

Denise Curd discusses business valuation and SFAS 141R

How to pursue recoveries from suppliers

Dick Crandall explains lean accounting, and where it can be used

How to use safe harbor clauses when making forward-looking statements

How target costing can improve your product margins

How to create a highly accurate inventory record keeping system

Steve discusses how to allocate work to maximize collections.

Steve discusses how to select the best payroll cycle.

Steve discusses a variety of accounting best practices implementation issues, and how to avoid them.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about using the internal audit staff for profit recovery purposes.

 Steve interviews Carolyn Newman, president of Audimation Services, Inc., about IDEA data analysis software.

Steve discusses accounting standards convergence with international accounting standards expert Barry Epstein.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach about FASB Statements 157 and 159, which cover fair value measurements and the fair value option.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about the mechanics of the profit recovery process.

Steve discusses the types of controls to use for throughput accounting.

Steve discusses the implications of using throughput concepts on a series of financial analysis scenarios.

Steve describes how throughput accounting concepts alter the capital budgeting process.

Steve discusses how to manage a bottleneck operation in order to increase the level of throughput achieved.

Steve discusses the drum-buffer-rope aspects of constraint management, as well as the sprint capacity and throughput concepts.

Steve discusses how to create PDF versions of customer invoices, and how this can reduce collection problems.

Steve discusses how to use a check scanner to send electronic check payments to the bank.

Steve discusses time clocks that incorporate fingerprint scanners and hand shape readers, and in what situations they are most useful.

Steve interviews Mark Nickson, President of Telliris, about timekeeping by telephone.

Steve interviews Joshua Burnett, CEO of 9ci, Inc., about automatic cash application systems.

Steve interviews Ms. Mona Clayton, Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, about forensic accounting investigations, and also discusses logistics measurements.

Steve interviews Ms. Rossana Salaris, Senior VP of The Clearinghouse Payments Company, about their Universal Payment Identification Code, and also discusses sales measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza about profit leaks and recovery auditing, and also discusses metrics for the accounting department.

Steve interviews Harry Cendrowski, co-author of The Fraud Deterrence Handbook and president of Cendrowski Selecky PC, about fraud deterrence.

Ralph Nach interviews Steve Bragg about acquiring a public shell company.

Mark Polino (from Transit Television Network) discusses accounting run charts, and Steve covers return on investment measurements.

Steve discusses operating performance measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding upcoming accounting standards in 2007, and discusses asset utilization measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza regarding how to locate Excel spreadsheet errors, and discusses cash flow measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding accounting in the year 2006, and discusses liquidity measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite (part 2) and discusses inventory measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite and discusses payroll measurements.

Steve discusses how to improve the speed of the close by compressing the billing process.

Steve discusses how to accelerate several payroll closing activities.

Steve discusses how to improve the closing process by increasing inventory record accuracy.

Steve discusses how to improve the speed of your close by altering the payables process.

Steve discusses how to manage journal entries in order to achieve a faster close.

Steve discusses how to restructure the financial statements in order to improve the speed of the closing process.

Steve discusses how centralizing the accounting function improves the speed of the closing process.

Steve discusses how to close the books fast by shifting work into the preceding month.

Steve discusses how to create a fast close (part 2).

Steve discusses how to shift closing activities into the preceding month (part 1).

Steve discusses controls for fixed assets.

Steve discusses payroll controls for both manual and computerized systems.

Steve discusses accounts payable controls for both manual and computerized systems.

Steve discusses controls for collections and cash receipts.

Steve discusses billing controls for both manual and computerized systems.

Steve discusses controls for shipping.

Steve discusses controls for production.

Steve discusses controls for inventory.

Steve discusses controls for receiving.

Steve discusses controls for expense reports.

Steve discusses controls for purchase orders.

Steve discusses controls for procurement cards.

Steve discusses controls for the credit department.

Steve discusses controls for a computerized order entry system.

Steve discusses controls for a manual order entry system.