NSAC Happenings and Latest News - Page 78

NSAC Installs new Board of Directors, Officers, announces membership campaign recipients and recognizes members with years of service to the Society.

Published December 3, 2018

During our time in Austin we introduced the new elected leadership team for 2018-19, they are as follows: President, William Miller, CPA Electric ChapterVice President, Nick Mueting, CPA, CFE Mid-West ChapterSecretary/Treasurer Dave Antoni, Capitol ChapterPast President, Jeff Brandenburg, CPA, CFE Great Lakes ChapterExecutive Committee Member, Erik Gillam, Pacific Northwest ChapterExecutive Committee Member, April Graves, Texas ...

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Keep Your Inbox from Running Your Workday

Published November 30, 2018

Before you hit reply, read this: A recent survey found that knowledge workers spend an average of 17 hours each week sending and answering business emails. And all that email is taking a toll. The survey found that, on average, people spend 11.7 hours at work each week sending or answering email and another 5.3 hours on it when they work from home. They send or receive an average of 86 emails a day from the office and another 25 from ...

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10 Ways to Make Working From Home More Productive

Published November 30, 2018

There is a definite stigma about home offices. Virtual receptionists, virtual offices -- many entrepreneurs did anything they could to make it seem they worked from a "real," not a home office. Now, of course, having a home office no longer implies a lack of professionalism or success; in fact, some of the most successful people work from home. But that doesn't mean working from home is easy -- at least not for everyone. If you're struggling to ...

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How to Master Performance Reviews

Published November 19, 2018

Express gratitude for any kind of feedback you receive, because it presents opportunities to improve.  Traditional Performance evaluations are going extinct. The rapid pace of change in the modern business landscape has decreased the utility of formal, once-a-year reviews, which once loomed large over workers' careers and earnings.  Most employees won't miss those dinosaurs, experts say, noting that younger workers especially crave ...

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FASB Expands Private Company Consolidation Relief

Published November 19, 2018

FASB addressed an area of accounting that has long been a concern for private companies with the issuance of a standard designed to improve consolidation accounting for private companies.  The standard-setting board also amended for all entities the guidance for determining whether a decision-making fee is a variable interest.  The changes were published in Accounting Standards Update No. 2018-17, Consolidation (Topic 810):

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