All companies are required to complete some level of accounting; however, not all companies require the same level of detail or sophistication. We tend to see businesses use the terms bookkeeper, ...

Many businesses use some form of management accounting, whose functions include budgets, cost allocation methods and cost-volume-profit or break-even analysis. Strategic management accounting goes ...

Shortly after we had started our consulting firm, Whitestone Partners, we began an engagement with a home healthcare business. As we do in almost all of our engagements, we asked to see the company's ...

Starting a business often requires entrepreneurs to understand and complete a variety of business functions. An important business function when starting a small business is accounting. Although many ...

There’s been an explosion of outsourced accounting, says Matthew Long, CPA, principal and director of Client Advisory Services at Rea & Associates. The driver behind it all? Technology. Artificial ...

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to roil the economy, one issue that remains top of mind for decision makers is labor. First, companies are dealing with a shortage of qualified employees. Then there ...

Agility and efficiency are pillars of accounting. Like any foundational element, they can crack, leaving your organization’s accounting functions exposed, convoluted, outdated or even inoperable.

Running a successful government is no simple task and often requires juggling many moving parts. Whether at a local, state or federal level, one way to alleviate some of the many stressors government ...

More small and middle-market companies are considering outsourcing some, if not all, components of their finance organization to quality firms in order to take advantage of more streamlined technology ...

The digital revolution is transforming small businesses around the world, presenting them with new opportunities to optimize costs, productivity and efficiency. While many business operations are ...