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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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