Accounting Best Practices with Steve Bragg

Unique accounting issues

Unique accounting issues

How to predict solvency problems

How to structure your spare time

How the model works

The need to go deep on the details

Unique accounting issues

How to differentiate between them

Some issues to consider

Unique accounting issues

When to recognize the expense

Dealing with a difficult relationship

How to make your budget more rebust

Unique accounting issues

The best indicators to use

Disclosures and accounting requirements

Suggestions for Improvement

Recent changes

Things to look out for

The joys of nationwide sales taxes

Best practices to consider

Why they should not be reported by accounting

How to recover from fraud

The role of accounting and finance

Unique accounting issues

Rules and reports

The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

Budgeting

The basis of accounting and the measurement focus

Types of funds

How to use accounting to enhance the customer service experience

What the auditor does during a review

Some thoughts about what to do

Various accounting issues related to SaaS

Unique accounting issues

What to read outside of the accounting standards

An overview

An overview

Unique Accounting issues

How a bank makes lending decisions

Advice on what to do

How the process works

Unique accounting issues

Tricks of the trade

Ways to select the best employees

Unique accounting issues

Improving the effectiveness of your reports

Costing issues to be aware of

Unique accounting issues

How to conduct the integration

Issues to be aware of

What the auditor does in a compilation engagement

Unique accounting issues

Why it can be so unreliable

Unique accounting issues

Underlying principles of revenue management

Covers stolen checks, concealed checks, fake invoices, and more

Issues to consider

Covers fraud schemes related to collusion, theft, and more

Unique accounting issues for coin resellers

Unique accounting issues

Two new ways to sell shares

What it's like to work in the consulting division

The alternatives available

Skimming, fake refunds, receipt alterations, and more

The skills and attributes of a successful audit partner

How artificial intelligence might impact the accounting department.

How to deal with accounting automation

Things to consider before you switch jobs

Why your current set of measures may not be sufficient, and where to look for more

Unique accounting issues

Why ethics can be so difficult for the accountant, and what to do about it

What to do when a subpoena arrives

How a tax audit works and how to mitigate its effects

The intricacies of sales and use taxes

When adding more best practices may not be a good idea

The process for straightening out the books

Types of continuous learning

When and how to use the reserve

Accounting issues faced by contractors

Lessons learned as a new controller

What is the best way to report performance measurements?

The core concepts to remember

Issues to consider

What are the differences?

The techniques to use

The techniques used

Why people alter the financial statements

When to use discounted cash flows analysis, and its advantages and disadvantages

Lease accounting is now more complex

Where the industry might be in 10 years

How to manage working capital

Tips for how to recover transaction fees

When to Upgrade Processes

Best practices for assimilating new hires

Where to search for qualified accountants

Is it worthwhile?

Revenue recognition implications of certain freight terms

Managing the Relationship

Tips for the CFO

High pay for non-management positions

How to ensure that shipments are recorded in the correct period

Making the LCM rule even more complex

Tips for creating a better book

Handling the mid-month financials for both parties

Keeping a close watch on unused or partial purchase orders

Which assets to count and how to do it

How to pick accounting courses and books to improve your knowledge

The steps to take to become a CFO

How to clean up accounting spreadsheets

How to install a cycle counting program

Why the elimination of extraordinary items is good, and why we should delete other reporting, as well

The specifics of being an accounting intern

The option to not recognize certain intangible assets

How to make your case for business improvements

Tips for a higher level of prediction accuracy

Inventory monitoring for difficult inventory items

The new requirement to disclose a going concern issue

Tips for getting an internship

How to decide whether an error is material

Where to look for the latest accounting standard updates

The accounting challenges in a startup organization.

When to provide training and how to motivate the staff

Revenue recognition for contracts with customers

How to segregate accounting duties in a small business

How to account for freight

What a manager expects from a staff accountant

The new accounting standard that allows goodwill amortization

How to gain an understanding of undocumented controls and processes

A look at underlying patterns that govern accounting behavior

Tips on proper use of accruals and deferrals

How to maximize cash from collections

Controls for wire transfers, investments, and loans

How to reduce the risk of petty cash losses

Tips on how to improve the reconciliation of accounts

The pitfalls and possibilities of changing careers

How much systems integration is necessary?

The incremental approach to organizational upgrades

Advice regarding training for your accounting career

Problems with the chart of accounts and account code structure

Whether to obtain an accounting certification, and which one to pursue.

Guidelines for when to write a procedure

When to use a soft close, and to what extent it should be used

Accounting for a business when it is about to be liquidated

Bob Poley discusses the mechanics of intercompany accounting

Why not to use the senior accountant title

The effect of new rule changes on continuing professional education for CPAs

A new standard has been released that addresses how reclassified other comprehensive income items are to be reported

How not to cut expenses

Focusing on cost reduction through cost objects

Dr. Philipp Schaberl discusses required changes to the reporting of other comprehensive income

Making decisions when the business model changes

How to spot valid cost reductions

A conversation with Neil Jennings, CEO of Accounting for International Development

How to refine the use of accounting reports

Issues to be aware of when using net present value analysis

A GAAP rules change for testing intangible assets

How to earn the largest return on a small cash investment

Questions to ask when you evaluate a capital budgeting proposal

Kyriba's Bob Stark discusses supply chain financing

Who should supervise payables, credit and collections

How to create a valuable value proposition for investor relations

The correct structure of the cost accountant position

How to reduce resource usage when accounting for fixed assets

How to spend less time on accounts payable processing

Operating cash receipts with minimal resources

Changes in the rules for the testing of goodwill for impairment

Techniques for customizing your control system

Methods for increasing the results of internal audits

How to account for various types of marketing costs

What to look for in consolidation software

Alternatives to using a budget

Why a budget can be bad for your business

Payroll improvement implementation issues.

Improving payroll calculations and paying employees

How to automate payroll data entry and reduce the number of payroll deductions

How to reduce the amount of payroll data entry

Things to consider before you refinance debt

Ways to improve the relationship with your lender

The many variations on the controller position

A few issues to consider before you dispose of that fixed asset

The FASB gets a sponsor, accounting for drug runners, and putting the clergy on your board of directors.

The difficulty of electing directors under NYSE Rule 452

How to simplify your overhead allocation calculations

National Signing Day... and building relations with customers

The circumstances under which costs can change

New rules about disclosing pro forma information for business combinations

The reporting of loans to participants by defined contribution pension plans

Outright CEO Kevin Reeth discusses their free accounting software

Concur's Chris Juneau discusses employee spend management systems

The pitfalls of switching careers from auditing to industry

Why you should use horizontal analysis instead of variance analysis

CEO Jeffrey Morgan discusses the role of the National Investor Relations Institute, as well as current investor relation issues.

The fixed asset accounting differences under GAAP and IFRS

Patrick Quinlan, CEO of Rivet Software, discusses XBRL tagging

How to recognize revenue under the milestone method

John Carroll University's Professor Jerry Weinstein discusses recent changes in the standards for multiple deliverable arrangements.

A conversation with Joseph St. Denis, Director of the PCAOB's Office of Research and Analysis

The right way to reduce expenses

The mechanics of a fund raising road show

The accounting shenanigans that contributed to the downfall of Lehman Brothers

How the Accounting Best Practices show is recorded, and how it has changed over time

Why you do non-deal road shows, and how to survive them

Steve interviews Ms. Mona Clayton, Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, about forensic accounting investigations, and also discusses logistics measurements.

Mark Polino (from Transit Television Network) discusses accounting run charts, and Steve covers return on investment measurements.

Steve discusses operating performance measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding upcoming accounting standards in 2007, and discusses asset utilization measurements.

Steve interviews Rich Lanza regarding how to locate Excel spreadsheet errors, and discusses cash flow measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding accounting in the year 2006, and discusses liquidity measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite (part 2) and discusses inventory measurements.

Steve interviews Ralph Nach regarding the risk assessment suite and discusses payroll measurements.

Steve discusses how to improve the speed of the close by compressing the billing process.