Gail Perry, CPA, is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor. She also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars. She is the author of over 30 books (including Mint.com For Dummies and QuickBooks 2014 On Demand), and she maintains a small tax practice. Gail is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelors degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, earned her CPA, and worked for Deloitte in the firm's Chicago tax department. She has taught college-level accounting principles and personal finance, and was on staff for 10 years at the Indiana CPA Society as a computer applications instructor. Gail was the publisher and editor-in-chief of AccountingWEB before joining the CPA Practice Advisor team.
April 16, 2019
The retreat/think tank was given a name and a purpose almost a dozen years ago by a handful of members of and consultants to the accounting profession who were getting together anyway to share ideas, discuss trends, try to figure out where the ...
March 14, 2019
I’m not a morning person. There’s nothing about getting up earlier than everyone else that would feel great to me. Instead of working by myself, in the dark, when it’s cold and lonely, I could be cozy asleep in my bed – now that would feel great!
March 13, 2019
It’s that time of year when we (at least those of us in the snowy states) eagerly look out the window each morning to check for signs of spring. Or, if we’re not looking out the window, we’re checking apps to see whether that groundhog made an ...
February 18, 2019
It’s a new year and we’re wondering if people are going to approach charitable donations in a new way as a result of the changes in the tax law. Since many will no longer be able to take a charitable donation as an itemized deduction, the mindset of ...
February 18, 2019
Journalists don’t need to do a lot of crystal ball gazing, which is nice – reporting on the past is not nearly as nerve racking as speculating about the future. But every now and then, we have occasion to take a step back, or perhaps a step aside is a better visualization, and peek at...…
December 14, 2018
You’ve probably made a New Year’s resolution a time or two in your life, and, because you are an accountant, you might even have the mindset required to follow through and get your resolution(s) accomplished. But sometimes the list of life changes we ...
December 13, 2018
This month’s Apps We Love takes us into the holiday season with favorite apps that focus on food and drink. We surveyed members of the CPA Practice Advisor community along with scouring the Internet to learn which apps you can rely on to keep the ...
November 15, 2018
Many of us spend many hours on the highway, so this month we thought we would explore apps that can improve the driving experience. We scoured the internet and also queried our CPA Practice Advisor community, and here’s what we found.
November 5, 2018
You and your colleagues have an opportunity to expand your minds and collect up to 10 hours of continuing professional education on Thursday, December 6, as CPA Practice Advisor once again presents its annual free live-streaming conference, Ensuring ...
October 15, 2018
Everybody’s got to live somewhere, and once there, we’ve got all kinds of issues to deal with including security, renovation, repairs, maintenance, design, and so on. If you haven’t settled yet, then there’s the additional issue of home searching.
October 14, 2018
We scoured the Federal Election Commission website to find relevant information for accountants who are working with political candidates and campaigns. The following material is excerpted from published reports of the Federal Election Commission.
October 5, 2018
It’s election time again, and so we’ve decided to update the Apps We Love: Election & Politics article. If you want to have the latest news and information at your fingertips, not just about the upcoming election but about political issues in general,
