Sales tax compliance is a demanding job for finance teams like yours. For example, comparing the number of tax rate changes across the U.S. for January 1-June 30, 2023 vs. January 1-June 30, 2022, the volume of changes increased 43%,…
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Industry demand for crude oil is rising. The price of a barrel of oil could top $100 before Halloween. Since OPEC announced it would reduce output in the spring, energy prices flattened out for most of the year. That calm…
It's not a coincidence that National Payroll Week is always the same week as Labor Day. This year, it's September 5-9. In an interview, 40-year payroll industry veteran James Paille, CPP, and the director of compliance for IRIS Software Group,…
As talented as your C-suite team is, that lineup won't stay intact forever. If your organization hasn't addressed its future with an executive succession plan, or an update of the existing plan, now's the time. It's inevitable - there will…
Congress created the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to protect investors from market manipulation following the 1929 stock market crash. And for decades, the SEC focused on enforcing securities laws and punishing wrongdoers. Fast forward to today: Republicans in Congress…
To buy or not to buy commercial space ... it's a question companies and CFOs wrestle with all the time. We predict savvy companies (and investors) will be keyed in on available real estate in the coming weeks and months.…
The Supreme Court will be putting an end to the 39-year-old Chevron deference that's been afforded to federal rulemaking agencies. The upshot? Agencies will have a much more difficult time enacting rules that impose substantial costs on an industry sector…
Before the pandemic, controllers had the luxury of being able to stay focused on company accounting and financial reporting, and not much else. But that isn't the case anymore - especially for controllers aspiring to advance into a CFO role,…
Elon Musk told an interviewer last week we're in a recession. A second big bank just bit the dust. Mass layoffs continue in certain sectors. There's a lot to be worried about ... unless you're the average small business that's…
Because of inflation and economic uncertainty, marketing spend is dropping back closer to pre-COVID levels, according to new data from The CMO Survey, a biannual poll conducted by the American Marketing Association, Deloitte and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.…
If your revenue involves digital goods and services, you've noticed more states are expecting you to collect and remit sales tax on them. But sometimes the legal language regarding what's taxable or nontaxable becomes a gray area and a judge…
"Fifteen days to flatten the curve" is what politicians and health officials told us was needed in mid-March of 2020 at the start of COVID-19. More than three years later, the curve continues to point downward for owners and lessees…
