It’s a data-driven world, and we’re all just trying to live in it. Information seeps in from every cracked window and door, inundating us with facts and figures that sometimes are useful but usually just make eyes glaze over and thoughts drift to...

Tagged: internal audit

Accounting and finance would be so much easier if every company had a DeLorean, flux capacitor, and crazy-haired scientist squirreled away in the basement. At a moment’s notice, your designated Marty McFly could leap into the future, grab...

Tagged: accounting tips, cash flow

Debt is a curious little word. Despite its straightforward meaning, it’s slowly climbed the linguistic ranks to now sit alongside other, more colorful four-letter words sprinkled throughout our robust and vibrant language. However, although debt...

Tagged: accounting tips, debt agreements

Well, 2018 has already been a pretty remarkable year in Embarkville, and we’re still only in Q3. First, it was being named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2018 -- an accolade we pin squarely on our amazing team of financial...

Tagged: Awards

Let’s say you indulge yourself after a lifetime's worth of longing from a distance, swing by that fancy car dealership you drive past every day, and decide that today’s the day -- that lovely example of exceptional German engineering will finally...

Tagged: company culture

So many incredible sessions, so little time. Such is life when it comes to the annual Workiva User Conference. Of course, the 2018 version of the shindig in Nashville is no exception and, as you know, Embark couldn’t be bigger fans of Workiva’s...

Tagged: Workiva TEC, Workiva

The potential bounty waiting for capture across the publicly traded seas is a tempting proposition for an Emerging Growth Company (EGC). However, before diving head first into those alluring waters, Embark has some sage advice -- slow your roll,...

Tagged: IPO

Were you ever the new kid in class? Maybe a bit overwhelmed by both the rules of the classroom as well as the playground – written and unwritten – and struggled to make sense of it all? All of those rules have a way of shedding a shadow across...

Tagged: SOX compliance, SOX

There’s something to be said for marching to the beat of your own darn drummer, unabashedly eclectic and unique in perspective, and wearing it like a badge of honor. Whether it knows it or not, the world needs more healthy disruptors, those that...

Tagged: financial consulting, Austin

So here's the thing. The accounting and reporting on business combinations will never be mistaken for a good time hootenanny. However, such guidance – as established in ASC 805 and updated in ASU 2017-01 – is obviously an important topic and one...

Tagged: acquisition, accounting tips, mergers