Laresa McIntyre, CMA, MBA, MAC

Identity theft is a very real possibility for everyone and it is important to make sure you are taking the appropriate precautions to...

As technology has advanced, there seems to have been an explosion of KPIs in companies over the past few years. Talk to anyone in...

Most accountants have a love-hate relationship with their auditors – they love to hate them. The yearly external audit is often met with...

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...

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...

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...

Too many times there is a complete disconnect between the budget and the strategic plan of the business. A strategic plan defines the...

Here are 10 best practices for accounts payable in no particular order.  Hopefully your A/P department can put a check beside each of...

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...

Finance & accounting departments are ultimately about reporting.  If you are a public company, there is the required reporting to the SEC...

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...

Disgruntled employees, hackers, incompetent personnel, and competitors engaged in corporate espionage are all concerns for a business. ...

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...

When I read “Discovery-Driven Growth” by Rita McGrath & Ian McMillan, I came across this quote which I thought was so appropriate for...

As finance & accounting professionals, one of our primary roles is to safeguard the financial resources of the company for which we...

“Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs” ~ Henry Ford Being better than the next guy is a driving...

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...

The issue with a static budget is that it is out of date before the first month-end makes its appearance.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...