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Technology May 15, 2015 

The folks telling these captivating stories aren’t holding some great secret. The fact is that anyone can tell a story. Yes, anyone. And that includes accounting professionals. The greatest of storytellers have simply taken the time to define what ...

Kristy Short, Ed.D.

May 15, 2015 

While your clients know that their employees will eventually leave their business – either for another company or retirement – it may not be a reality they are prepared for. With your help, they can properly plan for employees’ retirement.

Taija Sparkman

May 15, 2015 

Like the legions of smartwatches that came before, however, today’s generation will ultimately fail to grab the imagination -- or the wallets -- of the public.

Dave McClure

May 14, 2015 

A compromise that many firms make: 81% of firms over $20M and 58% of $2-10M firms have a mandatory retirement policy. The vast majority have a related provision: Partners continuing to work past 65 is subject to annual approval by the other partners.

May 14, 2015 

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA, has launched a new website at www.darrenroot.com. Root is the president of the full-service accounting firm Root & Associates, the CEO of the consultancy RootWorks, LLC and is the former executive editor of CPA Practice ...

May 14, 2015 

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has released a Six-Point Plan to Improve Audits that provides a roadmap for the profession’s continued journey to audit excellence. The plan concentrates on financial statement audits for private companies ...

May 13, 2015 

Sage Life was developed to give small businesses an always-on network for collaborating across their organization, while helping to "cut out delays, uncertainty and wasted time."

May 13, 2015 

With this partnership, Sage has built a new solution called Sage Life on the Salesforce1 Platform, an enterprise Platform as a Service [PaaS], which enables small businesses to run completely in the cloud.

May 13, 2015 

Sage collaborated with accountants and bookkeepers to review and rethink the changing role of accounting professionals, as core areas like tax and compliance have become more automated. For the first time, Sage has brought together many of the everyday...

May 13, 2015 

The NFP segment of the U.S. market has historically been 5% of all businesses. This market share has grown to over 10% in the last decade. While business may be doing charitable, human interest or targeted work, this does not mean that the ...

Randy Johnston

May 13, 2015 

Restaurant owners and managers can get real-time insight into ingredient inventory, a new feature custom-built for the restaurant-tailored solution. They can do this with maximum flexibility and maintain customer relationships anytime, anywhere.

May 13, 2015 

Compliance with state and local taxes (SALT), especially sales and use taxes, could be getting much easier for U.S. small businesses and the accountants who serve them.