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A Better Way to Gauge Profitability

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Return-on-equity (ROE) is the correct profit metric to evaluate the performance of a business. However, the primary emphasis on financial ratio analysis must be on operating performance. The “advanced” version of the DuPont model remedies the original model’s failure to cleanly separate the effects of operating and financing...

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June 1, 2018

How board members can perform oversight of cybersecurity risks

A new CAQ tool addresses the topic.

April 30, 2018

The robots are not just coming, they are already here

In the accounting technology industry, machine learning systems are already working in the background.

April 12, 2018

How board members can perform oversight of cybersecurity risks

A new tool can help board members understand what questions to ask in their oversight of cybersecurity risk management.

April 3, 2018

How consumers are changing their behavior to combat ID theft

Four of out five respondents say they’ve changed their behavior in response to the threat of cyberbreaches affecting credit card and debit card processing systems.

March 1, 2018

Online security: The password-recovery questions you should be answering

The challenge for organizations is to not make the security questions so difficult that users are unable to remember their answers later.

February 21, 2018

SEC publishes new requirements for cybersecurity disclosures

Public companies received new guidance from the SEC on the disclosures they should make related to cybersecurity.

January 1, 2018

Internet forms: Password-protecting Form 941

How to add password protection to IRS Form 941, Employer’s Quarterly Tax Return.

December 1, 2017

Bruce Sussman, CPA

Adapting defensive tools to be used in an analytic, predictive mode is a key to facing cybersecurity challenges, according to Bruce Sussman, CPA, payment card industry global executive for AIG.

November 3, 2017

Cybersecurity tips from the ‘Shark Tank’

Shark Tank star and cybersecurity expert Robert Herjavec said CPAs have an important role to play as trusted advisers on cybersecurity.

October 1, 2017

Cybersecurity: A new engagement opportunity

CPAs who possess the appropriate expertise can perform new consulting and attest services for clients under a recently released AICPA framework. Developing expertise in this area is the key.

August 28, 2017

Blockchain opens new era for cross-border payments

Blockchain could streamline how money moves between nations.

July 1, 2017

Cybersecurity by the numbers

Key statistics illustrate the threats facing the accounting profession—and potential liability for firms if a breach occurs.

June 1, 2017

A factor of singular importance in cloud computing

What should CPAs be doing to better protect their data and derive more value from the investments in technology? Find out from our panel of accounting technology experts.

June 1, 2017

The single factor of most concern in the cloud

Our annual technology roundtable explores the importance of multifactor authentication and solutions for securing clients’ data in the cloud.

May 8, 2017

How to protect your CPA practice from hackers

Nick Graf, an ethical hacker with CNA, discusses all the cyber threats that go bump in the night and ways to prevent them from harming your business.

May 8, 2017

Why finance executives should care about blockchain

This column discusses five reasons finance executives should care about blockchain and its potential.

April 26, 2017

A new cybersecurity risk management reporting framework for management and CPAs

The framework gives an organization’s management criteria for explaining its cybersecurity risk management program and provides CPAs with guidance to be used in engagements to report on clients’ cybersecurity controls.

April 1, 2017

Default Google Chrome to incognito mode

To launch Chrome’s incognito mode by default in Windows 10, create a shortcut on your Desktop and edit the shortcut’s command line as follows.

March 30, 2017

Use of driver’s license numbers raises security concerns

The decision of the IRS and some states to recommend—or, in a few cases, require—the use of driver’s license numbers as form of authentication on electronically filed personal tax returns has made them a higher-value target for hackers and other criminals.

March 13, 2017