Avani Desai

Hiring of minorities in the accounting industry remains inexcusably low. Schellman President Avani Desai shares practices that can be implemented for instilling effective workplace diversity

For years we’ve been functioning on the premise that frequently changing our passwords is a good thing. So much so that many corporations have made frequent password changes a mandatory activity.

Three Steps to Ensure Employee Safety during a Pandemic

We’re living through the world’s latest pandemic. Guidelines from WHO alter normal life to preserve health but organizations and individuals are faced with another unprecedented concern—data privacy.

As we face this rapidly evolving and fluid health emergency related to coronavirus disease COVID-19 we want to acknowledge the many concerns across the business and technology community.

The coronavirus is posing global threats that are challenging businesses worldwide forcing them to put new policies and practices into place to prepare for and communicate with their workforces.

Though machines have been communicating with other machines for decades the term of IoT wasn’t coined until 1999. IoT consists of any device that is connected through the Internet to other devices.

Accounting Today reached out to a selection of top firm leaders including Schellman's Avani Desai to get their take on the major issues they’re expecting to face in 2020.

Flexa on Monday (May 13, 2019) launched a new digital payment network that uses cryptocurrencies to cut processing costs, eliminate fraud and preserve users' privacy.

(Article originally published in Rx Data News, Issue 5 Vol. 1)

Even when the developments might’ve been considered fairly primitive by modern standards, technological progress has always been a definitive characteristic of humanity.  Like any new...

As president of Tampa accounting firm Schellman & Company, Bizwomen Headliner Avani Desai deals with topics like emerging healthcare issues and privacy concerns for organizations, so...

A panel of security professionals discuss the top three tips for how CISOs and risk officers can help improve board communication around security

Prevention and detection aren't enough. To better defend against future intrusions, you need a strong digital forensics team that can analyze attacks. In a world where enterprises are...

The cybersecurity risk landscape is constantly evolving, and regulations like GDPR are making it even more crucial for organizations to protect their customers' and users' privacy. By...

It is predicted that, by 2025, robots and machines driven by artificial intelligence (AI) will perform half of all productive functions in the workplace – companies already use robots...

Thanks to rapidly changing technology solutions and strategies, the old rules IT used to swear by are no longer relevant. Here's what has replaced them. Few things in the world have...