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February 17, 2014 

Next month marks the one year anniversary of the shift in the U.S. intellectual property landscape, and Triangle business owners and the organizations they work with said the changes are squeezing new and small enterprises.

February 17, 2014 

Even Reluctant Rainmakers Can Create Irresistible Personal Brands That Deliver More Site Traffic, Leads and New Business

Alan Vitberg

February 17, 2014 

Robert Butler Jr. joins Grant Thornton as Tax Services leader of New England cluster’s Not-for-Profit practice

February 17, 2014 

Rather than taking a break after the busy holiday retail season, small businesses continued to expand through January 2014, according to the Small Business Lending Index released by Direct Capital, a leading national small business lender.

February 17, 2014 

The federal tax rules span more the 46,000 pages. As an accountant, your job is complex enough without having to worry about how to transfer large QuickBooks files and sensitive financial information to and from clients. With over 450,000 users in 120 countries, ShareFile is one of the leading file transfer services for small and...…

February 14, 2014 

A suite of new apps from Sage North America is now available to business users, the company announced on Tuesday. The mobile solutions, designed to "empower businesses to innovate in the field," are delivered through the new Sage Data Cloud. Sage Mobile Sales and Sage Mobile Service are currently available for download in Apple iTunes.…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

February 14, 2014 

Three accounting firm technology influencers have joined forces to release the 2014 Accounting Firm Operations and Technology Survey eBook.

February 14, 2014 

The federal government is set to unveil in the next few days a way for legal pot merchants to use banking services.

February 13, 2014 

A new simplified method devised by the IRS for claiming home office deductions is much faster and easier to use than the unwieldy traditional method.

Ken Berry, JD

February 13, 2014 

Between Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 and FY 2013, the IRS has averaged approximately 3,500 criminal referrals a year, a staggering 38.4% increase from the years in which George W. Bush inhabited the White House.

Ken Berry, JD

February 13, 2014 

At the risk of being criticized as unromantic (a label often used for us male CPAs), I want to offer one tip for those about to say “I do” this Valentine’s Day

Jim Buttonow

February 13, 2014 

Sales tax may be inevitable, but the hassle is not. With AvaTax, never again research taxing jurisdictions that apply to a location, and never again manually assign nexus, taxability or sourcing rules to ensure a correct calculation - all of that is done behind the scenes within your accounting application, automatically.