The global COVID-19 pandemic has affected many tax practitioners and taxpayers, and some fear that they will not be able to meet the Oct. 15 tax filing deadlines for federal and many state returns. Thanks to the efforts of many state CPA societies and the Council On State Taxation (COST), many states have provided one […]
Archives for October 2020
Watch now: ETF Edge on Amazon Prime Day plays and the presidential election’s impact on ESG
[The stream is slated to start at 1:10 PM ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] CNBC’s ETF Edge is dedicated to the fastest-growing trend in investing right now: ETFs. Every Monday, Bob Pisani will be joined by a panel of top market participants to offer […]
Art of Accounting: Added services by accounting firms – Accounting Today
Every accounting firm website I look at shows a full range of services, all with great descriptions. I also read many announcements of added services with impressive descriptions. This got me thinking about the followthrough by many of these firms. I’ve been there. Before our firm merged with Withum, we promoted an imposing array of […]
How the industrial IoT is creating a safer workforce
“The robots will steal our jobs!” has become a well-worn cry in recent years, as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and automation gain traction. And gain traction they have, says Mikael Schachne, CMO and VP Mobility and IoT Business, BICS. According to The Internet of Manufacturing, half of all production processes now use IoT, while 86% of manufacturers have […]
Accountants with Financial Planning arms combine
Two expanding regional accountancy firms with Financial Planning arms are to combine following a £20m takeover deal. Surrey-based Chartered Accountants SKS Business Services has acquired North East-based chartered accountants Bailey Group. SKS’s acquisition of Bailey Group expands the firm’s geographical reach with the addition of an established base in the North East, the firm says. […]
Implementing The WAVE Method To Build A Diversified Marketing Strategy
Executive Summary Growth is a real challenge for many advisory firms, from the advisor who got into the business to help people (not market to them), to the advisor who’s ‘great’ in front of prospects (with a strong ability to sell their value) but struggles to find prospects to get in front of in the […]
Audit committee cybersecurity disclosures rising in proxy statements
Public company audit committees continue to increase the level of their disclosures around cybersecurity in proxy statements, according to a yearly analysis performed by Audit Analytics in cooperation with the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ). The biggest increase in audit committee disclosures involved cybersecurity, according to the 2020 Audit Committee Transparency Barometer report published Monday […]
Food delivery volumes in India reach pre-Covid-19 peaks: Zomato’s Deepinder Goyal
Food delivery volumes have touched pre-Covid-19 peaks, the top Zomato executive said. In a post on microblogging platform Twitter, Deepinder Goyal, the founder and CEO of Zomato, said he expects the sector to continue growing at around 15-25% month-on-month for the foreseeable future. A number of cities are now at more than 120% pre-Covid-19 peaks, […]
Streaming platforms see growth explosion as pandemic propels podcasts to popularity
The coronavirus disruption has launched India’s media landscape into the third V front of voice, after video and vernacular. Only one third of Indians own a smartphone, and even fewer are conversationally fluent in English, given that the opening of the voice frontier promises a deepening of the digital media in the ocuntry. And while […]
Online liquor delivery remains a non-starter due to steep delivery fees, lack of clear guidelines
Online liquor delivery remains a non-starter, four months after markets like West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh permitted the same, said company and industry executives, attributing the slow burn to steep delivery fee charged by aggregators Swiggy and Zomato and lack of clear guidelines. Online food delivery, in contrast, has reached pre-Covid numbers. “Charging cost of […]