The untouchables: Getting a handle on intangibles The average company’s balance sheet understates its value by 80%, according to Sarah Tomolonius, co-founder of the Sustainability Inv... Read More
Grading the performance of your company’s retirement plan Imagine giving your company’s retirement plan a report card. Would it earn straight A’s in preparing your participants for thei... Read More
It’s a good time to buy business equipment and other depreciable property There’s good news about the Section 179 depreciation deduction for business property. The election has long provided a tax windfall t... Read More
Why do companies restate financial results? Every year, research firm Audit Analytics publishes a study about financial restatement trends. In 2018, the number of public companies tha... Read More
Summer: A good time to review your investments You may have heard about a proposal in Washington to cut the taxes paid on investments by indexing capital gains to inflation. Under the pr... Read More
Protect your nonprofit from occupational fraud threats Not-for-profit organizations don’t lose as much to occupational fraud as for-profit businesses do. According to the Association of Ce... Read More
Can “collective impact” help your nonprofit accomplish more? Not-for-profits increasingly are taking on big issues, such as global warming and economic development. Some are turning to a relatively ne... Read More
What type of expenses can’t be written off by your business? If you read the Internal Revenue Code (and you probably don’t want to!), you may be surprised to find that most business deductions a... Read More
Lean manufacturers: Reap the benefits of lean accounting Standard cost accounting doesn’t necessarily work for lean operations. Instead, lean accounting offers a simplified reporting alterna... Read More
Nonprofit board retreats: The pause that refreshes If your not-for-profit’s board is like most, its members lead busy lives. They may not get to every board meeting or perhaps they&rsq... Read More