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Lease Accounting Updates that May Impact Your Business

VCFO

ASC 842 is a new accounting standard set forth by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). These impacts will include major changes to accounting practices and financial reporting, as well as increased scrutiny of contracts, service agreements, and all leases starting now and moving forward.

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Nonprofit Accounting Services: The Right Solution

The Charity CFO

As a result, the organization might not adhere to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which can trip them up come tax time or during an audit. Governance issues, tight regulations, and high public accountability standards mean strong accounting practices are more important than ever.

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What is Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)?

Spreadym

FP&A is a process used by organizations to develop and manage their financial plans and make informed decisions based on financial analysis. It involves forecasting, budgeting, analyzing, and reporting financial information to support strategic planning and operational decision-making.

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Where Can FP&A Career Path Take You?

Fpanda Club

FP&A vs financial controlling Working closely with accounting function, financial controllers ensure compliance of reported results with accounting standards, legislation and regulations, develop and document policies and procedures of the internal control in the organization, participate in financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

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Best Practices from the CFO Suite

BlueLight

The financial implication of these decision is critical and the CFO is the executive helping the CEO navigate these decisions. Historically, the CFO role was focused on backward looking information: ensuring on-time and accurate financial reporting. Pre Series B, it’s a part-time role to simply track past financial numbers.

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Strategic Finance Focus at Year-End

VCFO

Assessing Accounting For entities preparing GAAP compliant financial statements, adoption of Revenue Recognition Standard (ASC 606) and Lease Accounting Standard (ASC 842) is now mandatory. Changing how revenue is reported impacts EBITDA and also balance sheet items such as deferred revenue and deferred expenses.

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166: Nicolaas van Wyk

CFO Talks

We expect the same will happen locally, there are a lot of listed companies in South Africa getting loans and credit from the PIC and soon the PIC will also start requiring these types of reports.

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