Take a stroll through your accounting department as the end of the month approaches and you might just notice a palpable tension in the air. Pulses quicken, patience shortens, and pupils dilate as your highly qualified team dives into yet another...

Tagged: accounting tips

Effective leadership shapeshifts to the environment. Sometimes it’s straight out of a sports movie, an inspirational routine to rally the troops. Other times, leadership occupies a more fire and brimstone aura, intense and piercing to drive home...

Tagged: company culture

Leases come in all shapes and sizes. Some are as plain vanilla as, well, vanilla. Others have many moving parts and lease assets, making them more complex and requiring additional attention and care to avoid angering the accounting gods. And as...

Tagged: Leases, Lease Accounting

Chocolate chip cookies might look like their oatmeal raisin cousins from ten feet or so, but your taste buds will always beg to differ. Things that look, sound, or even act the same often have significant differences between the margins....

Tagged: financial audit, PCAOB, AICPA

Accountants can’t afford to let their collective guard down these days. They need to have eagle eyes perched atop a perpetually swiveling neck to navigate the steady stream of changes rolling downhill from Mt. FASB. And as if the changes to ...

Tagged: commercial banking, CECL

You could look at auditing as a process or function that is immobile and inflexible. But you’d be wrong. The truth is, auditing is as dynamic as the organization’s it helps provide focus and boundaries for. To prove our point, Embark looks...

Tagged: financial audit, PCAOB

Embark prides itself at being on the forefront of change in an industry too often view as static and inflexible. As anyone on the frontlines of accounting, finance, or auditing will tell you, our industry is evolving at a rapid clip, so rapid...

Tagged: financial audit, PCAOB

Every organization needs to constantly weigh growth versus risk, trying to find the ideal balance to make everyone happy. Granted, in a dynamic environment such as commercial real estate, there’s rarely, if ever, a single solution that can...

Tagged: real estate, cybersecurity

The commercial real estate (CRE) industry is making strides to join other sectors that thrive on innovation. At its heart, CRE strives to be a digitized, efficient marvel that feasts on bigger and better servings of data-rich meals, particularly...

Tagged: real estate, digital transformation

Believe it or not, the new lease accounting standards are not unlike those pesky word problems you used to loathe in high school algebra. If you’ll recall, the more complex of those word problems required you to read each and every word...

Tagged: Lease Accounting, ASC 842, debt agreements