Shortly after we had started our consulting firm, Whitestone Partners, we began an engagement with a home healthcare business. As we do in almost all of our engagements, we asked to see the company's ...

The accounting cycle takes accountants through ten distinct steps, each of which depends on information generated in the previous step. The accounting cycle is continually repeated, with the final ...

The accounting cycle is the chain of activities that businesses and organizational entities perform to track transactions and consolidate financial information of a specific accounting period. It is ...

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Let’s set the scene. A privately held company’s longtime controller gives notice. With only one other accounting person on staff, the owner is left scrambling for a fix until a new controller can be ...