Opinion
-
Assess Your Organization's Readiness to Execute Strategy
In these times of economic turbulence, strategy execution has become the new mantra for executives who seek growth. Executives are…
-
Accountants Need to Know IT, Say CFOs
The accounting profession is one of many professions dramatically altered by the technology revolution. A tradition of paper and pencil…
-
Standard costs – an effective tool for business?
Standard costing and variance analysis has been in use since the early twentieth century. In recent years the role of…
-
Finally, Business Talks the Same Language… XBRL
Just as English is the universal language of commercial pilots, so XBRL soon will be the lingua franca for all…
-
Ethics and Your Career
In the wake of recent corporate scandals and increased regulation of accounting practices, ethics has become one of the hottest…
-
XBRL Leaders Push for Global Acceptance
With standards of corporate reporting under intensifying scrutiny, Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) is the silver lining in the cloud…
-
Internal audit and review reports
Internal auditors, external auditors, and consultants who perform internal audit and review engagements provide reports to management (internal audit reports).…
-
An accountant wants nothing to do with the sales department
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an accountant in possession of a good fortune, wants nothing to do with…
-
The importance of working capital
Many organisations that are profitable on paper are forced to cease trading due to an inabilty to meet short-term debts…
-
Contract Auditing: Strategizing for success
Any audit that involves either billings from or billings to third parties falls into the category of contract auditing. Audits…
