Laresa McIntyre
They Want More Than Your Name
Identity theft is a very real possibility for everyone and it is important to make sure you are taking the appropriate precautions to...
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Are Your KPIs Adding Value?
As technology has advanced, there seems to have been an explosion of KPIs in companies over the past few years. Talk to anyone in...
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Adjusting Your Audit Attitude
Most accountants have a love-hate relationship with their auditors – they love to hate them. The yearly external audit is often met with...
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My Name is Not Jack
Once there was a boy named Jack who sold his family’s cow for some magic beans. Jack had to count those beans to make sure he got a fair...
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Not Just a Shape - The Fraud Triangle
As part of my Accounting Fraud Examination Concepts course at FAU, I wrote a paper about The Fraud Triangle and how it is used in fraud...
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What Marathon Training & Business Share in Common
I have completed 4 marathons in my life and when I stopped to think about the effort required to train for one, it occurred to me there...
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Keeping Score: The Balanced Scorecard
Too many times there is a complete disconnect between the budget and the strategic plan of the business. A strategic plan defines the...
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10 Best Practices for Accounts Payable
Here are 10 best practices for accounts payable in no particular order. Hopefully your A/P department can put a check beside each of...
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It’s OK to Let Go: Sunk Costs
I’m sure you’ve heard at some point in time someone say “but we’ve invested all this money so we have to keep going”. For the folks that...
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Financial Reports: Useful or Useless?
Finance & accounting departments are ultimately about reporting. If you are a public company, there is the required reporting to the SEC...
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Pluses & Pitfalls of the PEO
A few years ago, like many other CFOs, I received a phone call from my benefits broker so we could review the numbers for the upcoming...
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Don’t Risk Your Data — Assess It
Disgruntled employees, hackers, incompetent personnel, and competitors engaged in corporate espionage are all concerns for a business. ...
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Reporting Periods: Why 13 Might Be Lucky
We in the finance & accounting field can be creatures of habit. We get used to looking at things in terms of months. This is how we are...
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Pay it Right
When I read “Discovery-Driven Growth” by Rita McGrath & Ian McMillan, I came across this quote which I thought was so appropriate for...
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Safeguarding Financial Resources: Issues in HR
As finance & accounting professionals, one of our primary roles is to safeguard the financial resources of the company for which we...
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Who’s the Best? Benchmarking to Keep Ahead
“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs” ~ Henry Ford Being better than the next guy is a driving...
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(De)Centralization
Someone once told me a story about a man who only kept two files in his desk — one on how to centralize the company and one on how to...
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Being Flexible: Using a flex budget
The issue with a static budget is that it is out of date before the first month-end makes its appearance. When this happens, a...
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