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New Lease Standard: Practitioner Tips for Implementation of Topic 842
After helping numerous clients implement Accounting Standard Update (ASU) 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), GRF’s team of audit specialists has compiled a list of tips, from their perspective as practitioners, to help organizations struggling with the new standard. Before considering the steps outlined below, it’s first helpful to understand the impact of Topic 842. Overview of…
Tips & Tricks of the Month from Sage Intacct: Using Checklists
Need to keep track of your team’s tasks and progress? Check out Sage Intacct’s Checklist feature, which is available to all subscribers of Sage Intacct. Intacct’s Checklists, mentioned in the 2021 release highlights, offers a more efficient way to assign tasks, enabling you to track high-level activities and clearly see the status of all tasks…
Nonprofits Should Prepare Now to Accept Cryptocurrency
By Omid Mohebbi, CPA, Audit Manager, GRF CPAs & Advisors (GRF) Over the past year, there has been exponential growth in both the volume of cryptocurrency (crypto) donations to nonprofits and the number of nonprofits accepting such donations, either as cryptocurrencies or as liquidation to cash at the time of donation. This growth has been…
Sage Intacct Financial Planning & Analysis
By Luis Rivera Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) plays a vital part in an organization’s ability to create accurate budgets and forecast trends. Companies remain consistently valuable and profitable with meticulous attention to financial planning and cash flow management. Many companies recognize the need FP&A, but have not been able to fully integrate this function…
5 Checklist Items for a More Effective Month End Process
By: Luis Rivera The end of the fiscal year is the most important closing period for most companies. To make this process smooth and efficient, organizations should have a well-planned month-end closing process in place. If done correctly, these closings can help your organization stay in good financial standing, as they allow you to track…
Accounting Technology Tips and Tricks: Sage Intacct’s Collaborate
By: Luis Rivera Sage Intacct’s Collaborate is a tool already included within a Sage Intacct subscription. It allows you to share information and capture internal conversations within a record or transaction, so you can stay up to date in real-time. No more waiting on e-mail responses or sifting through your email history just to find…
Tips for Easier Tax Filing in 2022
By Jennifer Galstad-Lee | Senior Manager, Tax The U.S. tax filing season is officially underway! The IRS has started accepting and processing income tax returns for the 2021 tax-year as of Monday, January 24, 2022. Filing Basics for Individuals Remember that most income is taxable. Be sure to keep records for income items, including: Forms…
Preparing for an Audit Made Easier with Financial Compilations and Reviews
By: Steven Lyons, CPA | Senior Manager, Outsourced Accounting and Advisory Services In addition to providing a more cost-effective alternative to a financial statement audit, compilations and reviews offer businesses and nonprofit organizations a number of important advantages. Perhaps most important, compilations and reviews help your organization prepare for a future financial audit because they…
DNS Health: Ensure your organizations’ identity is protected
GRF Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Scorecard Blog Series Your organization’s domain name (e.g. “example.com”) serves as the base of operations for your online identity – helping interested parties to find you and connect with you online. However, the underlying machine language of the internet is based on numbers. Every site on the internet has…
Network Security: Building Resiliency
GRF Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Scorecard Blog Series It’s not just about disruption or inconvenience. A compromised technology incident can have a detrimental impact on your organization’s processes, mission, and reputation. A review of your external network security risk should include looking at any risk that is related to your perimeter network – or…