ASC 842: New Lease Accounting Standards Extended to 2022, But Private Companies Should Start Planning Now

By Antoine Roberts, Client Director

In April, U.S. accounting rule maker, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), decided to offer private companies until 2022 to comply with major new lease accounting rule, ASC 842, which was supposed to go into effect next year, in 2021. The decision to issue a delay until 2022 came in response to the outbreak of …

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Job Search Strategies that WORK if you’re 40 or Over

By The Intersect Group

Age discrimination, unfortunately, is rampant. As much as we wish it weren’t so, here’s proof. ProPublica.org, an independent, non-profit investigative journalism website, published a story in December 2018 that reported that  56 percent of people older than 50 are being “pushed out’ of “longtime” jobs “before they choose to retire.” Just one in 10 of …

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COVID-19 and Recovering the Project Management Office

By Daniel Youssif, Director, Client Solutions

Since COVID-19, the role of the Project Management Office (PMO) and how people lead projects have evolved. How COVID-19 has affected the PMO Environment: IT projects have been canceled or put on hold Reduction in overall IT spend Additional strain on IT project resources due to layoffs, furloughs, and reductions in workforce Existing projects forced …

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6 Straightforward Strategies to Truly Increase Your Diversity in Candidate Sourcing

By The Intersect Group

Yes, indeed: our talks on diversity and inclusion in recruiting here at The Intersect Group continue. We’ve discussed – and written about – how “looking” for “cultural fit” can lead to perpetuating unconscious bias in hiring, as well as looking at what inclusion really is and how companies can become more inclusive. Now it’s time …

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