Business Management & Organization
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Your Old Risk Playbook Is Obsolete: What Accountants Need to Know for 2026
I was reading a report from the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors about the risk outlook for 2026. It made a stark conclusion. The greatest threats to our clients and our firms are no longer the ones we’ve spent decades defending against. The era of predictable, siloed risk is over. We’re now in a world…
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Private Equity Bought My Industry. Here’s What Happened.
I’ve been watching a quiet revolution in my own industry. The world of accounting. It’s not usually a place for high drama. But something big has been happening for the last four years. Private equity firms, armed with billions in capital, are buying up accounting firms. This started as a strange idea. A “great lab experiment.”…
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Your Firm’s Pricing Is a Guess. AI Can Fix It.
I was talking to a friend in marketing the other day. His company sells physical goods not services. He told me they were building a data pipeline to track competitor pricing in real-time. Their goal was to automatically adjust their own prices to always be 2% lower. It was a clear example of active data-driven…
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Welcome to the Era of Hypervolatility in Accounting
A recent conversation between the head of the PCAOB and a reporter got me thinking. They talked about the massive changes hitting the accounting world. It’s not just one thing. It’s a combination of technology, new regulations, and global instability. It has made the job of an accountant more of a headache than ever. This…
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Is AI Really Taking All the Jobs? Yale’s Data Says Not Yet.
I see the headlines every day. Another tech company announces layoffs. The reason is always AI. It feels like a massive shift is happening right now. A robot revolution wiping out jobs left and right. But is that what’s really going on? I wanted to check the hype against the data. So I dug into…
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Is Finance Tech Finally Moving Beyond Just Cost Cutting?
I’ve been in a lot of rooms recently. The conversation often turns to managed services. The pitch is always the same. Finance tasks like bookkeeping are not strategic. They are a cost center. So let an outside firm handle it. Your CFO can then focus on “real” strategy. This has been the narrative for years.…
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Your Next Client Won’t Google You. An AI Will Recommend You.
For years the game was simple. Get on the first page of Google. If someone searched for a complex financial question you wanted your firm’s white paper to be the top result. That was the core of digital marketing. SEO. Search Engine Optimization. I’ve watched this play out for over a decade. Firms poured resources…