Strategic planning

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Host Analytics releases newest version of financial planning software, and Chrome River snags a university customer.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued its annual update describing the 2017-2018 special per diem rates that taxpayers can use to substantiate the amount of ordinary and necessary business expenses they incur while traveling away from home.

Focusing on the present is one of the biggest challenges firm leaders face.

The ICPAS’s Todd Shapiro spots opportunities in change.

While solutions to help employees manage their travel-related expenses have evolved steadily over the past two decades, innovation in the space has really accelerated in the last five years.

Uber has updated its Uber for Business program with new expensing, billing and reporting features for corporate users of the ride-hailing app.

The key to today's rapidly changing accounting environment is doing something utterly and radically different.

Many firms don't have a living, breathing strategic plan that enables them to successfully navigate through their next two or three years.

Business travelers can set up a Lyft business account to have receipts sent directly to their expense management solution.

Automation and other advances are making handling T&E less of a pain.

Four expense management software vendors—Certify, Nexonia, ExpenseWatch and Tallie—are merging into one company, after an investment firm, K1 Investment Management, said it is investing $125 million in an effort to challenge SAP’s Concur for dominance of the market.

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

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

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.

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.

The ride-hailing app accounts for 52 percent of expenses in the ground transportation category and is now the most expensed vendor overall across categories.