Articles about Accounting

This Seattle startup backed by American Express wants to be the ‘LinkedIn of accounting’

Seattle-area giants including Concur, Avalara, and DocuSign changed the way companies automate their essential business processes. Lockstep wants to be… Read More

Accounting software startup Lockstep raises $10M to help businesses better manage cash flow

Lockstep, a Seattle startup using software and the cloud to improve accounting practices, has raised $10 million in a Series… Read More

Alice Jolla to take over as Microsoft’s chief accounting officer following Frank Brod’s retirement

Microsoft corporate controller Alice Jolla will take over as chief accounting officer following the retirement of Frank Brod. Microsoft announced… Read More

Vulcan leads $3.5M round in PSL spinout Sigma IQ, which automates manual accounting processes

Finance executives everywhere know all about the pain, expense, and time that can come from the manual accounting process of… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Valid8 takes the complexity out of analyzing financial records

The idea for Seattle startup Valid8 came from a Ponzi scheme — but not in the way you might think.… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Mentio uses data to help small businesses manage cash flow

When it comes to accounting, many entrepreneurs try to manage cash flow themselves or turn to traditional bookkeepers. This is a… Read More

CFOs on the hot seat: Students tell Expedia and Zillow execs how they could improve

Expedia’s Mark Okerstrom and Zillow’s Chad Cohen are accustomed to fielding tough questions from Wall Street analysts. But the chief… Read More

Microsoft takes $6.2 billion write-down over aQuantive

Conceding that its giant acquisition of aQuantive Inc. hasn’t worked out as planned, Microsoft says it will write down the… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Kashoo’s iPad app looks to make accounting easy

If you’ve ever gotten stuck, frustrated or bent out of shape using QuickBooks, the team at Kashoo wants to talk… Read More