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Evaluate New Core Providers With Successful Vendor Management

Independent Banker

Here are some helpful tips and discussion points to assist you in core vendor management: . Make sure your team meets the team working behind-the-scenes, from the leadership team to the support managers. Vendor Management in Action . Download our ebook to learn more about vendor management. link] .

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business

PYMNTS

Japan is the latest nation that Walmart has backed out of in the last 12 months, as its international priorities are shifting. When you look at the list of failures by foreign retailers in Japan, it is quite tough to imagine bringing in someone to manage a great turnaround story for Seiyu. In April, Walmart merged its U.K.-based

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Offering advisory services: Piecemeal or holistic approach?

Abrigo

“The challenge with the piecemeal approach right now is that every project becomes a new and different project,” says Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA, founder of advisory-focused CPA firm IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC in Honolulu and a nationally recognized accounting technology thought leader. “If

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The most useful (and rarely used) types of data analytics

Abrigo

subject to management discretion are usually more predictable than relationships involving transactions that are subject to management discretion. This is because income statement accounts represent transactions over a period of time whereas balance sheet accounts represent amounts as of a point in time.

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How to increase efficiency and minimize risk in the audit process using analytics

Abrigo

Currently, in addition to serving as the controller for a large heavy equipment company, she instructs all four parts of the Becker CPA Exam Review and serves as a course reviewer for The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA). The goal is to do less work while managing an appropriate level of risk.

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7 Policies that help CPA and consulting firms recruit for advisory services

Abrigo

A national benchmarking report shows that professional staff turnover rates exceed 20 percent in 1 of every 5 accounting firms generating more than $75 million in annual revenue. The professionals you’re hiring can be trusted to get the work done and manage their vacation schedule without having a set number of days.”

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Are North American Banks Ready for the Digital Identity Challenge?

FICO

As the graph shows, North American banks are at odds here with banks in the other nations surveyed, where customer experience is much more of a priority. While banks are more than prepared to manage applications in apps or on their website, the process falls down when they revert to identity verification that requires checks by bank staff.