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  • Speakers Share Lessons from Journey to C-Suite

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 22, 2019
    Speaking at the NYSSCPA's Women's Leadership Forum on Jan. 18, a group of top women executives discussed their journeys on their way to the C-suite and the challenges and pitfalls they overcame to get there. 

  • Lilly Ledbetter: Discrimination Is 'An Epidemic' That We Must Fight to End

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 22, 2019

    Lilly Ledbetter, a keynote speaker at the NYSSCPA’s Women’s Leadership Conference on Jan. 18, made headlines when she took her employer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, to court over years of pay discrimination. While the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against her, holding that her claim was time barred, the aftermath prompted the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law in 2009. Since then, Ledbetter said she has talked to many women across the world and has concluded that the kind of discrimination she experienced is a worldwide "epidemic" that won't go away unless people, especially women, actively fight. 

  • Regulatory Roundup: Jan. 16-22

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 21, 2019
    With so many regulators out there, it can be tough to keep track of all the decisions being made. This is the NYSSCPA’s regular series that collects relevant regulatory announcements from the past week, and puts them in one place to help you stay on top of the issues.

  • Michele Meyer-Shipp: Women ARE Leaning In. Now We Need Allies to Lean In

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 18, 2019
    KPMG Chief Diversity Officer Michele Meyer-Shipp said that achieving diversity and inclusion in the workplace "is a marathon, not a sprint," noting that women, and men of color, have been leaning in for years, and now it is time for everyone else to lean in to meet them. She spoke, in a conversation with NYSSCPA President Jan C. Herringer, at the NYSSCPA's Women's Leadership Forum, held Jan. 18 in Manhattan.

  • Speakers: TCJA Means Treating Nonprofits More Like For-Profits

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 17, 2019
    The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has a number of provisions that both directly and indirectly affect not-for-profit organizations, but a pair of speakers at the Foundation for Accounting Education's 41st Annual Nonprofit Conference today said that the targeted provisions seem to focus on narrowing the gap between rules that govern non-profit and for-profit organizations. 

  • Speaker: Becoming a Data-Driven Organization Not Easy, But Worth It

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 17, 2019
    Everyone is talking about data, and how big data will change everything, but what exactly does this mean on an operational level? Amy West, CEO of AHRC and a speaker at the Foundation for Accounting Education's 41st Annual Nonprofit Conference, offered lessons from her own experience. 

  • IRS Orders 36,000 to Return Without Pay To Process Tax Refunds

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 16, 2019
    Despite the government shutdown, the IRS said it will recall 36,000 additional furloughed employees to ensure that tax refunds go out on time. For the most part, they will not be paid to do so. 

  • Blue Apron Wants Investors to Pay More Attention to Non-GAAP Measure That Makes Performance Look Better

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 16, 2019
    Meal kit delivery company Blue Apron's stocks surged yesterday after presenting a custom non-GAAP metric to investors that it said indicates it will achieve profitability this year, though the actual GAAP numbers tell a different story. 

  • Report: Average Enterprise Processes 4,374 Expense Reports, Each Containing Average of 11 Items

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 15, 2019
    A recent report has found that, in the final quarter last year, the average enterprise processed 4,374 expense reports, each of which contained an average of 11 items. 

  • SEC Lacks Staff to Block Shareholder Proposals, But Can Still Sue Ukranian Hacker for Manipulating EDGAR System

    By:
    Chris Gaetano
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    Jan 15, 2019
    With the government shutdown now entering record-breaking lengths, public companies have grown increasingly nervous at the prospect of actually having to call shareholder proposals to a vote, as the Securities and Exchange Commission lacks staff to process requests to block them. 
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