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Financial accounting & reporting

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Financial professionals are facing unprecedented changes in financial accounting and reporting. Economic, regulatory, and global forces are demanding higher-quality reporting while standards are in continual flux. These learning resources are designed to help you understand the knowledge and skills needed in the areas of financial accounting and reporting to appropriately serve their employers or clients.

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Building trust with your team

The primary goal of leaders who want to bring about change should be to build trust at all levels. This article provides strategies to build trust within your team.

Article Team building Intermediate

9 skills of a great organisational coach

This article reminds us of critical coaching skills we need both in individual and corporate coaching.

Article Coaching & mentoring Intermediate

Pay attention to nonfinancial measures when performing audits

This article discusses why nonfinancial data can be just as important as dollars and cents when detecting fraud.

Article Audit Intermediate

How to handle poor performers

This article provides tips guidance for identifying and dealing with poor performance.

Article Driving performance Foundational

Be strategic when awarding raises and promotions

Having a solid review and reward process is a way to develop a sustainable and effective workforce. This article provides advice for a successful review period.

Article Driving performance Advanced

Millennial women: How to woo a new generation of employees

Millennial women make ideal employees. Read this article to learn what is needed to recruit and retain this demographic of the workforce.

Article Team building Foundational

Understanding the Impact of Legalized Marijuana on the CPA Profession

This roundtable webcast discusses the impact of legalized marijuana on the CPA profession and provides questions for practitioners to think about.

Video Audit Foundational

Preferability and the private company alternatives

This article discusses how FASB principle for accounting policy decisions affects election of options developed by the Private Company Council.

Article FASB financial accounting & reporting Intermediate

Understanding the SSARS 21 Clarification and Revision

A discussion on issues with respect to Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) No. 21, Statements on Standards for Accounting and Review...

Webcast Compilation Foundational

Will simpler also be better?

This article discusses 7 ways reduced complexity will affect the financial reporting world.

Article FASB financial accounting & reporting Foundational

New challenges in a delicate process: Difficulties presented by FASB's going-concern standard

This article examines the new going concern look-forward period, disparities with audit guidance, and a new triggering threshold.

Article Going concern Foundational

Go ahead, take the stage

This article presents dozens of tips to help CPAs shine in the public speaking spotlight.

Article Communication Intermediate