Choosing to thrive as ‘the worst year ever’ comes to an end I keep hearing that 2020 has been “the worst year ever.” Time magazine said so on its cover recently. My question is: Worst year ever? Really? For whom? Yeah, it’s been a bad year. If you’ve… Read More
Podcast: Cybersecurity and COVID-19: How to protect your firm … and your clients As with pretty much every other trend out there, the pandemic has acted as an accelerator for cyber threats. This was a big problem before COVID-19, but it’s an even bigger problem now. By one… Read More
Joy and sorrow. Happiness and suffering. Embrace it all. “Don’t be sorry it’s over. Be happy it happened.” You ever hear that sentiment before? I’m sure you have. As it applies to folks we’ve known, it might come across as something like,… Read More
It’s raining. Show up anyway. We keep trying to find words of wisdom that will see us through these dark times, don't we? Sometimes, those words find us. That was the case today, when I read an article written by Grant Heston, an… Read More
Podcast: 3 Ps of taxes: Politics, policy … and patience Former Vice President Joe Biden is our president-elect, but the future of America’s tax policy will depend largely on how a few remaining Senate races turn out. There are a lot of questions about… Read More
Podcast: Creating the ‘progressive accountant’ We’ve talked for a while now about the need to create the future-ready CPA, but Twyla Verhelst has a different term in mind Twyla is one of the top 50 women in accounting. She is head of the… Read More
Podcast: Finance, football and the future of the profession The world of financing touches everything — including sports. Jeff Goering is the CFO of the Baltimore Ravens NFL team. In this week's show, Jeff talks about how life as a CFO for an NFL team… Read More
This is our hometown My dad's birthday is this week. He died in 2002 — way too young. But the date got me thinking about my youth, and my dad, and my hometown. There's something about that word, isn't there? "Hometown."… Read More
Before ‘allyship’: First things first Who knew we would end up thinking of the pre-COVID environment as the “good-old days?” Remember your very first day of work? Excitement and anxiety intersected with hours of preparation — and… Read More