Multitasking and the Brain: The War on Productivity
Mounting evidence demonstrates that the human brain isn’t capable of performing multiple simultaneous tasks, and yet more often than not we find ourselves juggling objectives and multitasking in all aspects of life. From glancing over at the inbox status every few minutes to religiously checking Facebook or Twitter, we’re becoming increasingly dependent upon competing attention grabbers. How does this split attention affect performance at work, and what does it say about the next generation of employees? This article will briefly examine what multitasking does to the brain and then suggest a few ways to curtail this productivity-killing phenomenon.
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Between Mergers and Branding, It’s a Jungle Out There for Jason Lawhorn
Jason Lawhorn, CPA.CITP, MAcc, is a co-owner of Lawhorn CPA Group, Inc., a full-service accounting and consulting firm in Knoxville, Tenn. Lawhorn and his father, Jeff, recently transitioned and rebranded their firm as a way to widen the firm’s scope of business outside of Knoxville. Jason also heads up the firm’s technology practice. I sat down with him to talk about the process of rebranding a firm and the technology the firm pushes to its clients.
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Ideas in Motion is a monthly column designed to focus on best practices within CPA firms and organizations involved in providing technology related services.
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Financial Reporting and Consolidation: Designing Financial Reports - Part 6
This is the 6th article in a series about Financial Reporting and Consolidation. The following article focuses on designing and developing a good layout for a financial report. This material is adapted from The Automated Accounting Systems and Procedures Handbook (John Wiley, New York 1991) Chapter 12.
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This column presents a new accounting system concept each month that may be applicable to your organization.
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