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Yoss: Don’t Let a Crash Wreck You | Quick Tech Talks

Back up your data in 10 minutes or less. It could be the most important thing you do today.

Five Ways to Show Your Commitment

Walk the walk.

By Martin Bissett
Passport to Partnership

There’s no doubt that consistent commitment is not as widely practiced as current partners of accounting firms might like to think.

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Business success is built on a dedicated team with a shared vision giving their all for the realization of that vision and the development of the next one.
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INNOVATION & CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Yasso: From Wall Street to Main Street | The Disruptors

Your real ROI comes from relationships, not spreadsheets.

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The Disruptors
With Liz Farr

Martha Yasso didn’t just balance billion-dollar books — she watched businesses crumble under them.

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Yasso began her career in the high-octane world of junk bonds on Wall Street, where she relished the analytical challenges of cash flow modeling. But what initially felt like powerful work soon turned emotionally draining. “I was ripping apart companies and watching it happen in real time,” she says. “It was exhausting and depressing.”

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Tactical Empathy and the Auditor’s Greatest Leverage Point

What a former FBI hostage negotiator can teach us about audit conversations that actually move things forward

By William Englehaupt

By the time an auditor walks into a difficult conversation—a pushback on a finding, a tense remediation discussion, a stakeholder who has “been through this before”—most of the outcome has already been shaped by what happened in the first few minutes of listening.

Or the failure to listen.

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Chris Voss spent decades negotiating hostage releases for the FBI. His book, Never Split the Difference, distills that experience into a single governing idea: the fastest way to move any high-stakes conversation forward is to make the other person feel genuinely heard. He calls it tactical empathy—understanding the other person’s perspective well enough that they stop defending their position and start engaging with yours.

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CPA Trendlines Mourns the Loss of a Friend and Colleague

Beth Bellor, the long-time managing editor for CPA Trendlines Research, has died at age 62.

“Beth was an extraordinary journalist and an extraordinary person. She made us all better people and better professionals,” says Rick Telberg, publisher and editor. “She will be missed.”

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Bellor served CPA Trendlines as a senior editor, researcher and production director since 2013, managing all aspects of content development and distribution. Her background included a distinguished career in journalism, ranging from newspapers and magazines to books and new media.