Laresa McIntyre6 minThey Want More Than Your NameIdentity theft is a very real possibility for everyone and it is important to make sure you are taking the appropriate precautions to...
Laresa McIntyre3 minAre 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...
Laresa McIntyre4 minAdjusting Your Audit AttitudeMost accountants have a love-hate relationship with their auditors – they love to hate them. The yearly external audit is often met with...
Laresa McIntyre2 minMy Name is Not JackOnce 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...
Laresa McIntyre3 minNot Just a Shape - The Fraud TriangleAs 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...
Laresa McIntyre3 minWhat Marathon Training & Business Share in CommonI 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...
Laresa McIntyre3 minKeeping Score: The Balanced ScorecardToo many times there is a complete disconnect between the budget and the strategic plan of the business. A strategic plan defines the...
Laresa McIntyre2 min10 Best Practices for Accounts PayableHere are 10 best practices for accounts payable in no particular order. Hopefully your A/P department can put a check beside each of...
Laresa McIntyre2 minIt’s OK to Let Go: Sunk CostsI’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...
Laresa McIntyre2 minFinancial 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...
Laresa McIntyre4 minPluses & Pitfalls of the PEOA 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...
Laresa McIntyre3 minDon’t Risk Your Data — Assess ItDisgruntled employees, hackers, incompetent personnel, and competitors engaged in corporate espionage are all concerns for a business. ...
Laresa McIntyre3 minReporting Periods: Why 13 Might Be LuckyWe 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...
Laresa McIntyre3 minPay it RightWhen I read “Discovery-Driven Growth” by Rita McGrath & Ian McMillan, I came across this quote which I thought was so appropriate for...
Laresa McIntyre3 minSafeguarding Financial Resources: Issues in HRAs finance & accounting professionals, one of our primary roles is to safeguard the financial resources of the company for which we...
Laresa McIntyre2 minWho’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...
Laresa McIntyre3 min(De)CentralizationSomeone 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...
Laresa McIntyre3 minBeing Flexible: Using a flex budgetThe issue with a static budget is that it is out of date before the first month-end makes its appearance. When this happens, a...