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What’s New at AAFCPAs

What’s New at AAFCPAs

AAFCPAs is the premier CPA and consulting firm based in New England and considered an attractive alternative to national CPA firms by discerning clients who appreciate exceptional value. We are growing in many areas, including our assurance practice, tax, outsourced accounting & advisory, business process & IT consulting, and AAFCPAs’ internal operations. Our footprint is […]

Cybersecurity Update

Cybersecurity Update

In the rapidly evolving threat landscape of cybercrime, reactive or one-off measures may not be sufficient to secure your organization’s systems and data. Sophisticated organizations are moving toward managed cybersecurity services that include cloud security and data security protection across network, servers, applications, users, and secondary devices. In this webcast, recorded April 2022, AAFCPAs’ IT […]

Accounting Standards Update

Accounting Standards Update

In this webcast, recorded April 2022 at AAFCPAs’ Nonprofit Educational Seminar, AAFCPAs’ Nonprofit Audit Leaders Matt Hutt, CPA, CGMA, Katie Belanger, CPA, and Olga Yasinnik, CPA, MBA provide key considerations and best practice recommendations related to new accounting standards implementations, including an expanded focus on the Lease standard. Download the full slides from AAFCPAs’ Nonprofit Seminar >>

Panel: Insight from CFOs on Data Use

Panel: Insight from CFOs on Data Use

Data analytics and data visualization tools are enabling CFOs to leverage real-time insights and accelerate fact-based decision making. The rise of Big Data brought this to the forefront years ago, however the dramatic events of 2020/2021 made it a mission-critical part of the finance function. In this challenge, solution, outcome-based panel discussion, Nonprofit Finance Leaders […]

Keynote: Laura Lanzerotti, Partner, The Bridgespan Group!

Keynote: Laura Lanzerotti, Partner, The Bridgespan Group!

In this webcast, recorded April 2022 at AAFCPAs’ Nonprofit Educational Seminar, AAFCPAs’ Managing Partner Carla McCall chats with this year’s keynote Laura Lanzerotti about nonprofits and innovation. Laura leads Bridgespan’s work in Innovation Strategy and Collaborative Processes. Since joining Bridgespan in 2006, she has supported a number of institutional and family philanthropies to develop and […]

Building a Best-In-Class Finance Function

Building a Best-In-Class Finance Function

How do you know if your finance function is stuck in a rut? Do you manually produce the same reports, year after year—long after they have stopped being useful to management? Do you spend too much time making sure your numbers are right and not enough time figuring out what the numbers mean or what […]

AAFCPAs’ 2022 Spring Outing

AAFCPAs’ 2022 Spring Outing

In May 2022, AAFCPAs held their Spring Outing at Jack’s Abby Brewing Company! We had a blast making memories together!!  

AAFCPAs Day Of Service at Rosie’s Place

AAFCPAs Day Of Service at Rosie’s Place

Brenna Mellen, Dawn Pantano, Kaitlyn Noll, CPA and Julie Chevalier, CPA went to our client, Rosie’s Place for their Paid Day of Service!! #greatmindsgreathearts #10percentback #dayofservice #socialpurpose

AAFCPAs Day Of Service at Cradles to Crayons, MA

AAFCPAs Day Of Service at Cradles to Crayons, MA

#Gratitude for our team who spent the day with Cradles to Crayons Massachusetts and Jookender Community Initiatives, Inc – A Nonprofit!! #paiddayofservice #greatmindsgreathearts #socialpurpose #10percentback