Accounting
Surviving the Storm: Accounting Firm Puts Disaster Recovery Plan to the Ultimate Test
Faced with power outages, client losses and homeless staff, how WithumSmith+Brown overcame Hurricane Sandy
May 2013
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Accounting
2013 Who’s Who Among Technology and Service Providers for the Tax & Accounting Profession
Whether you built your firm from scratch, partnered with other professionals from the start or started with a single client and a dream, your practice is your future. However, even sole practitioners are never alone.
Accounting
Proud to Be Part of the Profession
I’ve been immersed in our profession every since I was a kid. I practically grew up in my father’s public accounting firm in Bloomington, Indiana. On Saturday mornings, I would drive with Dad to his office. Being the 1960s, business was done much differently than it is today. Core ‘workflow’ tools consisted of pencils, paper, desk calculators, and an IBM Selectric typewriter.
Technology
Lose Your Mobile Device? There’s an App to Get it Back
From the May 2013 issue. Accountants who have ever lost a computer, smartphone, or tablet know how frustrating it is to try to locate it, especially if the item was lost during business travel. There are a number of tracking applications which, if installed and activated, will let you locate where your device last connected […]
Firm Management
Work is What You Do, Not Where You Go!
Whether we like it or not, cloud and mobile technologies are catapulting us toward an anytime/anywhere work environment. No longer are we bound by the four walls we call “the office” to check things off our to-do list. This shift of work being completely about what you do, and not about where you do it is a significant one.
Accounting
A Picture Perfect Duo: Florida CPA Helps Grow Freelance Camera Rental Company
Imagine running a business out of your home for more than 25 years when a divorce forces you to move offices and reevaluate your business strategy.
Firm Management
Improving Document Management: What Your Firm Can Do
At the risk of insulting your firm, it is rare to see a document management project implemented correctly. Further, I don’t believe a document management project is ever complete. Let me explain why.
Technology
4 Tips for a Successful Client Newsletter by: Kristy Short, Ed.D.
A client newsletter is one of the most effective ways to ‘speak’ to your clients. A newsletter not only provides a regularly scheduled touch (or contact), which makes your clients feel connected to you, it also builds loyalty and drives sales.
Firm Management
What’s Up with Paper?
Paper is inefficient and doesn’t easily scale. It is a pain to store, retrieve and share. And yet companies and accountants of all sizes are dependent on it to manage their businesses.
Auditing
The Hidden Wallet: 5 things owners buy with a secret stash of cash
Most business owners buy annual tax and assurance services from their accountant easily enough, but when it comes to investing in business advice, owners can be hesitant. Entrepreneurs reckon they know their business better than anyone and many take the attitude “if it ain’t broke, why fix it?”
Firm Management
How Building a Firm of the Future is Paying Off for Baldwin CPAs
Alan Long may have been in practice for 35 years, but he’s so far removed from the stereotype of a stodgy old accountant that he has helped steer his firm towards technologies that have helped them more than double their client work volume in the past several years, as well as moving into new office locations.