An accounting audit performs a necessary function of assuring that a company not only is being truthful in its financial reporting but also that the company's operations are working as intended.

Learn how administrative accounting supports decision-making and operational control with roles like payroll management and budgeting. Discover key differences from financial accounting.

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Managers recognize accounting as the language of business. Accounting is a means of providing information about an organization's financial performance. The role of accounting is not just limited to ...

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To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. For the last few years, the murmurs have been growing. The ...

Let’s set the scene. A privately held company’s longtime controller gives notice. With only one other accounting person on staff, the owner is left scrambling for a fix until a new controller can be ...

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 ...

A number of years ago Deloitte (UK) released a white paper titled “ Financial Planning and Analysis – The Next Frontier of Business Process Outsourcing? ” which explored the possibility of outsourcing ...

Gov. Bill Haslam this week signed a little-noticed executive order that puts control of financial accounting for three state departments in the Department of Finance and Administration. Executive ...