September 21, 2018
Survival Tips for Fall Busy Season
What can you do to keep yourself going, coast through the deadlines, keep your colleagues satisfied and your family and friends happy, and maintain some semblance of the self you want to be?
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.
September 21, 2018
What can you do to keep yourself going, coast through the deadlines, keep your colleagues satisfied and your family and friends happy, and maintain some semblance of the self you want to be?
September 15, 2018
What are your favorite tools for getting and staying organized? As the autumn tax season is upon us, and spring tax season will be here soon (there’s always a tax season looming…), I checked in with some members of the CPA Practice Advisor community ...
September 14, 2018
Anyone can make mistakes, and pretty much everyone does. But we had a fighting chance before email and smart phones. In the good old days an office assistant typed documents and memos, and then they were read over once or twice before they got signed ...
August 21, 2018
Summer is often thought of as the marriage season, so what better time to review some of the recent marriages impacting the technology sector of the accounting profession?
August 20, 2018
In case you haven’t noticed, getting fed by phone is very commonplace these days. Whether you’re calling in for lunch at the office, getting home at the end of the day and feeling too exhausted to cook, requesting food for a party, making sure your ...
August 19, 2018
Change vs. Old School is something the accounting profession has had to deal with in recent years too, and while that theme isn’t new to these pages, I’d like to give it a bit of a different twist.
July 26, 2018
What is the Internet of Things? Homeowners know it as the process of adding automated, and in some cases, decision making power to devices like appliances, lights, vehicles, heating and air conditioning, and so on.
July 18, 2018
The compliance task is still a necessity, but as the recent changes in the tax code and the resulting postcard sized tax return illustrate, much can be done automatically. Fewer individuals will need to itemize and will consider doing their tax ...
June 21, 2018
Wolters Kluwer has developed a new product called CCH Axcess iQ, described as a Predictive Intelligence tool. “We know about the trends,” said McGinnis. “People are moving from compliance to advisory services, moving up the value chain and creating ...
June 20, 2018
Results of the AICPA 2017 PCPS CPA Firm Top Issues survey support the findings that accountants are striving, reaching, yearning, to be more tech savvy, frustrated that they don’t like any of the potential job candidates who come in for interviews ...
June 20, 2018
We are focusing on Artist clients in the niche practices area of this month’s magazine, and so we decided to go down the path of art creation and appreciation apps as a corollary to those articles. I like to think of Venus Paradise coloring sets as ...
May 22, 2018
My father owned his own business. He got up earlier than the sun in the morning and came home after dark every night. He worked harder than any of the dozens of employees who punched a clock in his tool & die company.