Transformation Highlights - Issue 8
Center for Accounting Transformation
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#betterbizculture Highlights
This week, we are sharing two articles focused on #betterbizculture that our team thought were most relevant from our Transformation Insights newsletter. If you would like to receive the full set of articles delivered directly to your inbox each week, we invite you to?subscribe?to our Transformation Insights newsletter.
Look Within Before You Leap: The Importance of Understanding What You Need Before Making a Job Change?
Hopefully no one gets to the point of burnout and wanting to leave their job, but if you do?Amber Setter, PCC?provides some good questions to ask yourself in this article. In particular I think?#accountants?should use the questions in tip #3 to revisit their existing position and see if they can work with their current firm to shift to a more thriving mindset and work environment.?#betterbizculture
Plan Your Day According to Your Energy Level to Improve Productivity
As we go into busy season, I liked the shift presented in this article from managing time to optimizing for energy levels. It provides some good tips on how to determine what your optimum schedule is too--which can be made possible with good?#flextime?programs.?#selfcare?#betterbizculture
Cybersecurity Highlights
This week's focus is on ways to #managerisk when it comes to cybersecurity. This newsletter only includes 2 of the articles that our team thought were of interest and most relevant for the week. Want the full set of articles delivered directly to your inbox each month??Subscribe?to our Cybersecurity Insights newsletter.
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach
About two month lag to detect a data breach. Not too bad for a big company, but we know we see smaller companies seeing much longer detection time. With busy season coming?#accountingfirms?need to ensure they are heightening their end user?#cybersecurity?awareness and ensuring that they are being proactive in preventing a data breach.?#managerisk
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Data Privacy Regulations: Taking steps to better manage compliance operations
I liked two of the tips from this?#privacy?article: 1) limit the information that you are collecting and 2) build out multi-disciplinary teams to assess and manage risk. This is not just a?#cybersecurity?issue (i.e. IT can't deal with it alone).?#managerisk
Podcast Pick of the Week
Each week our team chooses one video or audio podcast episode to share that is good food for thought on a transformation-related topic. If you have an episode that you think should be featured here, send us a link at [email protected].
ESG the next evolution of decision-support tools
A recent podcast that included two thought leaders attempted to answer a specific question: Can ESG help balance business decisions in a post-growth world? The AAN podcast, or lyceum, as they called it, is hosted by?Matthew Heggem, a business strategist and financial coach for professional artists, and Ingrid Edstrom, chief empowerment officer for?PriestessOfProfits.com.
Technology This Week, by Rick Richardson, CPA, provides an easy-to-read digest of the technology that tax and accounting practitioners need to know to better serve their clients. Each week, our team will choose one of Rick's posts to share from the world of Technology.
Keep in Touch
I always welcome your feedback and constructive criticism on this newsletter or anything else that we publish via the Center for Accounting Transformation . You can reach me easiest via email at [email protected] and connect to me here on LinkedIn: Donny Shimamoto, CPA, CITP, CGMA .