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Center for Investment Readiness identifies first ever state partner to unlock new opportunities for communities across Tennessee.

While DISE does not change the face of the income statement, it will require organizations to evaluate how expense information is captured, accumulated, reported, reviewed, and supported. Depending on an entity’s existing systems and processes, implementation could involve considerations related to data availability, reporting processes, internal controls, estimation methodologies, and the processes used to review,…

Preparing for the annual financial statement audit can feel overwhelming for public sector entities, particularly for finance teams balancing daily operations, compliance requirements, and reporting deadlines. Audit preparation can often be treated as a year-end event rather than a year-round process. To help reduce year-end stress and strengthen financial data quality, documentation readiness, and communication…

In many ways, developing and deploying AI resembles the implementation of other technology: define requirements, build or configure, test, approve and operate. Many of the “traditional” risks, like appropriate user access, change management, segregation of duties, security and data interfaces, still apply.

As the accounting profession confronts a shrinking talent pipeline and accelerating AI adoption, one educator argues the solution begins long before a graduate’s first day on the job.

Enterprise AI adoption is racing ahead of the data infrastructure needed to support it, creating a new bottleneck for companies trying to move from pilots to production: trusted enterprise data.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday represent one of the biggest opportunities—and one of the greatest operational tests—for ecommerce and retail brands. In 2024, U.S. online spending on Black Friday reached $10.8 billion, while global Cyber Week spending totaled $315 billion. With this level of demand concentrated into a short period, even small weaknesses in tracking,…

DigiCert has announced the speaker lineup for its third annual World Quantum Readiness Day, which will focus on post-quantum cryptography readiness.