Isaac M. O'Bannon is the managing editor and digital content manager for CPA Practice Advisor (www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com), drawing on two decades of experience covering the areas of professional accounting, taxation, business productivity and consumer technologies. Prior to CPA Practice Advisor, O'Bannon was a consultant at firms in San Francisco, Denver and Tulsa, serving clients that included Logitech, Polycom, Hilti, Microsoft, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering and other technology leaders. He is a U.S. Navy veteran. Email: isaac.obannon - @ - cpapracticeadvisor.com
September 10, 2009
An interesting article by Bill Losey, a CFP and CSA, offers some pointers for those who may be retiring in the next few years. According to the AICPA, more than half of the profession is likely to do so within the next 12-15 years, so not only is this information potential good advice for your...…
August 24, 2009
Intuit’s corporate communications guy Rich Walker used his Facebook page to tease the accounting community on Sunday night with a post that said: “Intuit innovates again with a new, web-based application for accounting and tax pros. Details coming soon!” While I have no confirmation for this, I’m pretty confident that it is related to my...…
August 21, 2009
People often scoff at others who find themselves in a predicament because they didn’t read “the fine print.” But almost all of us are guilty of this error in judgement, and not just occasionally… we do it every day. I’m talking about EULAs (End-User License Agreement), Terms of Use Policies, Privacy Policies and other contractual...…
July 23, 2009
Fellow CPATechViews blogger Dave McClure recently wrote about Google’s new foray into the land of operating systems (See: Killing Microsoft: www.cpatechviews.com/2009/07/killing-microsoft). He also notes Microsoft’s latest entry in the search engine field with Bing.com. Just as I don’t think Microsoft has much to worry about (yet) from a Google cloud-based operation system, I also don’t...…
July 1, 2009
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June 23, 2009
In the upcoming July issue of The CPA Technology Advisor, I’ve written a column that discusses why few tax and accounting professionals are using an online tax preparation system for their client returns. Considering how popular online tax prep is for do-it-yourselfers, I think it’s a curious situation. Some might blame it on the old...…
June 10, 2009
A few weeks ago, I posted an article here about the possibility of a new professional tax prep vendor coming to the market (www.cpatechviews.com/2009/04/is-a-new-tax-vendor-coming-to-town). That was after I discovered that CLI, Inc., a long-time vendor of practice management systems for accounting firms, had become the U.S. distributor of the APS suite of professional products. The...…
June 2, 2009
Intuit has reached an agreement to acquire PayCycle for $170 million. The company will be integrated into Intuit’s Payroll division. PayCycle’s simple-but-thorough online payroll compliance system, geared generally toward smaller small businesses (although they claim to be able to support up to 150 employees). The system offers automated reminders on federal and state tax payments...…
