A survey by cybersecurity software provider Symantec found that three in 10 small- and medium-business owners said employees have lost a company-issued mobile device or had one stolen. Of those, more than 25 percent said the event resulted in a data breach. When it comes to your business, how are you protecting the data on your company’s mobile devices?

With clients continuing to put downward fee pressures on auditors, firms need to look for additional ways to gain efficiency on their audits. One of the easier ways to do this is to look at data analytic tools that are designed to help automate the auditor’s work or audit analytics tools.

Forty-three percent of cyber attacks worldwide targeted small businesses with less than 250 employees. Sixty percent of small companies were unable to sustain their business over six months following a cyberattack. It’s no wonder, then, that 93 percent of organizations are now using cloud services in some form and 80 percent expect their IT budget to be cloud-based within an average of 15 months. If you haven't moved to cloud services, here are reasons to make the move now.

Accounting brings with it a heavy mental workload—and even accountants who absolutely love crunching numbers eventually start to feel the strain. Automation helps reduce mental stress and decreases frustration related to deadlines. The result? Your firm has happier team members who can focus their efforts on high-value tasks and do more of what they enjoy.

Procedures historically performed by newly-licensed CPAs are being automated, offshored or performed by paraprofessionals. The CPA Evolution initiative aims to transform the CPA licensure model to recognize the rapidly changing skills and competencies the practice of accounting requires today and will require in the future.