Welcome back to our Weekly Digest. We hope you and your family are safe and doing well. Read on for this week’s update. Australia To Extend Bankruptcy Protection Rules Until End of 2020 Australia will extend its temporary insolvency and bankruptcy protection rules until the end of this year, providing businesses a lifeline to recover […]

Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox speaking at the 2105 CGI Annual Meeting in New York. Adam Jeffery | CNBC Ursula Burns, who was CEO of Xerox from 2009 to 2016 and the first Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, says corporations have to “change the criteria” for directors to create more diverse board rooms. […]

The six biggest tech stocks have lost more than $1 trillion over the last three days alone, but it’s really just a dent coming off a huge rally that peaked last week. Apple, which hit a $2 trillion market cap on Aug. 19, is down about $325 billion in that time period. Microsoft‘s down $219 […]

A Boeing logo sits on the fuselage of a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, produced by Boeing Co., as it stands on display prior to the opening of the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, U.K., on Sunday, July 13, 2014. Simon Dawson / Bloomberg The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing quality-control lapses at Boeing that could […]

In their simplest form management accounts inform the business owner and/or management team of the key numbers for their business.  Every business is different and the key numbers will vary according to the type of business and even within different departments. The majority of businesses who choose to work with us have never received management […]

Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity reaches space for the first time. Source: Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic plans to conducts its next crewed spaceflight test on Oct. 22, according to documents the company filed with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday. The flight will be the first of two that the space tourism company has planned to complete […]

Recently, I introduced you to Advisable by Fathom, a new and exciting online educational platform. There, I help accountants grow their businesses by offering insights on how to make a successful leap to advisory services. I enjoy the questions I’m asked for this series because the answers are often useful for all kinds of small […]

Integrated circuits on a circuit board. The semiconductor industry has been in focus during the U.S.-China trade war. filonmar | E+ | Getty Images The Trump administration is considering imposing export restrictions on Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors, according to a Defense Department spokesperson.  The Department of Defense is in discussions over […]

The Oxford English dictionary defines Support as “to give or be ready to give help to somebody if they need it.” Twenty years ago, when we started First Class Accounts, Support was one of the key pillars we established our business model on. We define Support as being there for our franchisees, every single step […]

SpaceX founder Elon Musk looks on at a post-launch news conference after the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, March 2, 2019. Mike Blake | Reuters Shares of Tesla dropped more […]