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September 9, 2013 

The Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Accounting

Accounting firms across the country are looking to the cloud to transform their client accounting services. They are looking to move from simply transactional bookkeeping services to higher value advisory services more in line with the CFO function.

Jim Boomer

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September 8, 2013 

Income Tax Planning Takes More than a Magic 8-Ball

On the conference room shelf of a CPA’s office I visited recently, I noticed a Magic 8-Ball with the label “free tax answers.” When turned, the die floating in colored liquid inside the ball presses against the window to reveal an affirmative, negative, or non-committal answer such as “cannot predict now.”

Dustin Wheeler

 Small Business Lending on the Rise

September 5, 2013 

Small Business Lending on the Rise

Having closed 36 percent of all recent business loans made by the five major local credit unions, GTE Financial has reported seeing an uptick in small business lending.

 How Technology is Finally Transforming Practice Management

September 5, 2013 

How Technology is Finally Transforming Practice Management

“It’s old, but it gets the job done.” It’s a phrase that has kept countless time and billing systems limping along after they’re well past their expiration dates. Even as firms roll out shiny new client-side technology, practice management often creeps along in a parallel universe of carbonless copies and sticky notes.

 Free Startup Business Success Workshop in Irvine

September 5, 2013 

Free Startup Business Success Workshop in Irvine

Corporate Tax Network has partnered with LegalZoom to host a free weekend workshop for current small business owners and motivated entrepreneurs September 6-8 at the Irvine Marriott in Irvine, California.