Keeping accurate accounting records is an important part of running a successful small business. In addition to protecting your business in case of an audit, organized records help provide a picture ...

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Accounting is “the language of business,” says G. Blake Manners, a partner at Ernst & Young (EY) in Richmond. Blake is one of this year’s Super CPAs, a group highly fluent in accounting. The list of ...

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An expense account sounds simple enough, but it actually means two different things in business. First, it’s the process that lets employees pay for work expenses and get reimbursed by their company.

More than 40 years after the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) was enacted, the SEC and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continue to crack down on schemes in which bribes are paid to foreign ...