Editorial
Authors
Our articles are written by the CPA Advisor editorial team under the bylines below. Each writer keeps to one area, so the reviews in a category are held to the same questions.
Graham O.
Mid-market ERP
Graham writes about the systems businesses move to when entry-level bookkeeping stops coping: NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Business Central, Acumatica and the manufacturing ERPs. He spends most of his words on the part vendors skip: implementation partners, migration effort and what the first-year bill really looks like.
19 articles
Maya C.
Finance operations
Maya writes across the site on the finance side of running a business: choosing software, getting clean books ahead of a sale, and knowing when a fractional CFO or outside accountant is worth paying for. She tends to pick up the pieces that sit between the other beats.
35 articles
Nora W.
Small-business accounting software
Nora covers the bookkeeping tools most small businesses start on: QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks, Wave and the rest. Her reviews come back to the same practical questions: what it costs once you add the features you actually need, how painful the bank feeds are, and whether your accountant will want to work in it. She also covers what bookkeeping and tax help costs a small business, and which kind of professional the job calls for.
30 articles
Owen P.
Exit planning and succession
Owen writes the exit-planning guides for owners thinking about selling, handing a business to family, or stepping back from a partnership. He tries to keep them plain and practical: the order things need to happen in, and the points where it is time to bring in a CPA, attorney or valuation professional.
9 articles
Tess L.
Enterprise finance systems
Tess covers enterprise finance platforms such as SAP S/4HANA, Oracle ERP Cloud, Workday and Dynamics 365 Finance, along with close-automation tools like BlackLine. Her focus is fit: which organizations each system is really built for, and where a smaller product would do the job for less.
6 articles