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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accounting is a comprehensive system for collecting, recording, classifying, summarizing, interpreting, and communicating financial information. It is often referred to as the language of business as ...

The phrase "accounting is the language of business" is attributed to Warren Buffet, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, as he gave advice to a 17-year-old investment intern during a CNBC ...

The Maps have identified key roles that will be at risk over the coming years, as well as eight emerging job roles in finance & accounting, and three in accounting practices. The Jobs Transformation ...