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Explore the critical roles of back office functions in businesses, including settlements, compliance, and IT services, with ...

Many businesses use some form of management accounting, whose functions include budgets, cost allocation methods and cost-volume-profit or break-even analysis. Strategic management accounting goes ...

Shortly after we had started our consulting firm, Whitestone Partners, we began an engagement with a home healthcare business. As we do in almost all of our engagements, we asked to see the company's ...

A number of years ago Deloitte (UK) released a white paper titled “ Financial Planning and Analysis – The Next Frontier of Business Process Outsourcing? ” which explored the possibility of outsourcing ...

Accounting is a comprehensive system for collecting, recording, classifying, summarizing, interpreting, and communicating financial information. It is often referred to as the language of business as ...

Gov. Bill Haslam this week signed a little-noticed executive order that puts control of financial accounting for three state departments in the Department of Finance and Administration. Executive ...