Denise Lugo

(April 10, 2026) - (Checkpoint News) –A growing wave of retirement-age business owners is heading for the exit — and private equity firms are knocking harder than ever.

Accounting has a language problem. APIC. COGS. SCF. PP&E. Inside the profession, those terms are standard shorthand—efficient, precise and familiar to anyone trained to read them. Outside it, they can sound more like code than communication.

Why are banks still cranking out cash-flow statements that hardly anyone reads?

The easy-money days for software-as-a-service companies are over.

Shayne Kuhaneck still remembers the review that could have ended his accounting career before it really started.

Artificial intelligence is giving some baby boomer business owners one more reason to sell: They don't want to deal with it.

Artificial intelligence is pushing deeper into accounting, taking on work once reserved for junior staff, technical specialists and corporate reporting teams.

A private company's stock price shot up. Employees who owned shares through the company retirement plan saw a chance to cash out big.

Senior accountants have become the most difficult finance professionals for companies to hire, a sign that America’s accounting shortage has …

A possible Strait of Hormuz cost spike is pushing companies to review their contracts as higher oil, freight, tariff, and supply-chain costs raise accounting questions about revenue, receivables, inventory, and cash flow.When shipping, fuel, and materials costs jump, businesses face a question that sounds simple but can be difficult to answer: who pays?