June 2015 - Strategic Finance

Broken Budgets?

Transform the planning, budgeting, and forecasting practices in your company into powerful tools for better decision making and strategy execution.

Generous Contributions to IMA

IMA invites you to be part of our annual giving campaign. Your contributions strengthen and advance the accounting profession.

FILLING JOBS WISELY

Talent supply chain management ensures that your company hires the best candidates with the right skills to fill its needs.

Everyday Ethics: Tougher than you think

Our unconscious, innate biases can affect our decision making in surprising ways.

Moving to the Cloud

The primary concerns of security, access, control, reliability, and quality should be familiar to any management accountant.

Access: Importing Data

If you’re having difficulty bringing data into your database, these importing basics and tips should help.

IMA Life: Always There For Me

Randy Thomas talks about his journey from young accountant to 25-year IMA member.

From Predictive to Prescriptive Analytics

Prescriptive analytics allow companies to better gauge customer profitability and reach potential new markets.

Excel: TOP-LEVEL BUDGET VS. DETAIL-LEVEL ACTUALS

The Excel 2013 Data Model lets you combine your budget data and actuals into one pivot table.

TAXES: THE SIMPLIFIED HOME OFFICE DEDUCTION

An optional method helps avoid issues connected to calculating the home office deduction and itemizing related deductions.

A Teachable Point of View

A focus on problem solving, perspective, and trust can help you lead your team and your business to success.

Tools of the Trade: June 2015

Tesla introduces a revolutionary home battery for solar power systems and simple backup against blackouts.

Book Review: Overcoming Global Bribery

As business becomes increasingly global, companies that expand need to comply with the growing number of anticorruption laws.

Digital Badges: A Hot Career Booster

Showcase your career skills and achievements on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

Still Adding to the Pile?

Technology has failed to provide a paperless office, but don’t blame the machines.

Why Are Only Teachers Jailed for Cheating?

Some involved in the Atlanta cheating scandal received jail sentences. Yet Wall Street executives who cheat the public rarely do.

The Journey Accelerates

As technology transforms the management accounting and finance profession, IMA will grow and adapt with it.

NSA Program Deemed Illegal

The NSA program that collected millions of Americans’ data has been found unlawful by a federal court.

Disclosure Simplification on Senate Agenda

With Republicans now holding the majority in the Senate, attention will turn to passing financial reporting and Dodd-Frank reform bills.

Financing for Smaller Companies

New legislation allows only one registration approval for companies that want to raise up to $50 million in a year.

Would you like to review books for SF?

Strategic Finance is seeking accounting and finance professionals to review business books for our monthly column.