Corporate governance

Most firms face a never-ending challenge finding and acquiring new clients. According to a recent study, over 70 percent of firms make business development a major priority. Here are five basic mistakes that undermine many firms’ ability to attract new business.

The company also has modified the user interface for its mobile app.

The Prince of Wales' Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S) Chief Financial Officer Leadership Network has produced a new guide to help finance professionals consider social and human capital when making decisions.

There are two types of accountants—those who do their work with blinders and those with wide-open eyes. Both can do competent jobs for their clients, but the ones with the wide-open eyes grow and can do far better work for their clients.

This program will be a wild ride on everything you need to consider.

The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board has overhauled its board structure, adding a nine-member SASB Standards Board, overseen by the SASB Foundation board of directors.

The patent-pending, cloud-based GRC platform manages five major business governance activities.

I think branding is very important. Everyone and every business has a brand. Inattention to branding creates a brand that might not be what you would like, but nevertheless you will have a brand. Branding needs deliberate attention.

A new report finds Deloitte ahead of other Big Four firms in the global market for “digital transformation” services.

I write a lot about a lot of things. On technical topics I never get negative feedback—unless I wrote something wrong, which fortunately has been very rare, and then it is a gentle nudge that perhaps I overlooked or misread something.

Accounting firms need to start building detailed succession plans to fill potential staffing gaps at all levels.

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants welcomed top officials from some of the world’s leading accounting organizations to an event highlighting the growing importance of integrated reporting.

An annual benchmarking study from FERF and Robert Half suggest more changes with less talent.

How an accounting firm follows through will be key to the success of its plan.

The software should be intuitive, because many who use it are only doing so every several months.

Adding new practice niches is good, right? Well, yes and no.

Ever wondered what, exactly, Lean Six Sigma is? LSS Master Black Belt and Boomer Consulting chief innovation officer Dustin Hostetler explains what it’s all about in this podcast.

Investors are increasingly relying on nonfinancial performance information, including disclosures by companies about their environmental, social and governance practices, to make their investing decisions, according to a new survey by Ernst & Young.

There are five capabilities firms must have to remain successful and future-ready, but too often they think they've already done or tried that.

More than a third of CFOs’ time is being spent as strategic advisors as they move beyond the traditional financial management role, according to a new survey by Grant Thornton.