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Get more out of Microsoft Teams with these 5 features

August 20, 2024

If you are using Microsoft Teams just for calls and text chats, you are missing out on opportunities to improve your productivity. Tech Q&A writer Wesley Hartman demonstrates how.

  • technology

The results are in: 2024 tax software survey

August 19, 2024

Seven major products accounted for the bulk of tax prep software usage in this annual survey. See what tax practitioners liked and disliked about their software.

  • tax
  • technology

Beware of video communication pitfalls

August 05, 2024

Keep your videos brief and focused on a single point to make them most impactful.

  • technology

Financial statement fraud detection in the digital age

August 02, 2024

The proliferation of technology throughout modern business has created novel opportunities for financial statement fraud. But technology tools can also be leveraged to help detect and prevent fraud. Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) approaches have the potential to be more efficient and accurate in detecting fraud, especially novel frauds.

  • technology

How to create a watermark in Excel

July 30, 2024

Want to mark a spreadsheet as a draft or as confidential? This Technology Q&A article shows several ways to create a watermark in Microsoft Excel.

  • technology

Mindful technology: Balancing digital tools and human connection

July 26, 2024

It's all too easy to become consumed by our screens, losing touch with the human connections that are vital to our work.

  • technology

Trends in enforcement of VAT remote-seller rules

July 19, 2024

Guidelines have emerged for assessing value-added taxes in the global digital economy, although jurisdictions employ their own approaches to enforcing them.

  • tax
  • technology

Tech roundtable: Power to the people tech

May 13, 2024

The JofA Accounting Technology Roundtable panel posits that artificial intelligence isn’t the only technology trend making waves in accounting firms and finance departments.

  • careers
  • technology

Cybersecurity in the financial sector

May 09, 2024

The financial industry is built on sensitive information. Therefore, cybersecurity in the financial sector is critical. From basic customer details such as dates of birth, addresses, and phone numbers to more specific data such as bank information, financial institutions must have top-level safeguards to secure their customers' assets.

  • accounting + auditing
  • technology