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Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
January 3, 2012
Should I Take My Practice to the Cloud?
It seems that everywhere we turn these days we’re inundated with messages of moving to the Cloud. Sometimes it feels as though the Mad Men advertising powerhouse is hard at work in the Sterling-Cooper board room, coming up with new material to keep the accounting world drinking that Cloud Kool-Aid
January 3, 2012
5 Best Practices for the Automated Workflow Process
As deployed technologies continue to advance and change within the tax & accounting firm environment, the way in which practices track a work product from point of entry through point of delivery is also changing.
January 3, 2012
CPAs Predict Improved Economy for 2012
Survey by Oklahoma Society shows most CPAs in that state see recovery on the near horizon.
December 27, 2011
New IRS Guide for 1040 Filers Helps Individuals Prepare and Save
Taxpayers can get the most out of various recovery tax benefits and get a jump on preparing their 2011 federal income tax returns by consulting a newly revised comprehensive tax guide now available on IRS.gov.
December 20, 2011
With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean
New businesses are getting off the ground with nearly half as many workers as they did a decade ago, as the spread of online tools and other resources enables start-ups to do more with less. The change, which began before the recession, may be permanent, according to some analysts. “There’s something long-term at work here,”...…
December 20, 2011
IRS Extends Filing Deadline to March 30 for Some Tax-Exempt Organizations
Tax-exempt organizations with January and February filing due dates will have until March 30, 2012, to file their annual returns, the Internal Revenue Service has announced announced.
December 13, 2011
Franchisee Trends for 2012
Franchises continue to be a strong vertical, and some new areas are booming even in the rough economy.
December 13, 2011
New Program Aims to Increase Small Business Lending
A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday is designed to increase business lending by small banks and financial entities.
December 13, 2011
Does SaaS Make Sense for Your Small Business Clients?
We’ve been talking about software-as-a-service (SaaS) for years. For the uninitiated, SaaS is web-based software that users basically rent or subscribe to, as opposed to owning it on CD or on an actual computer (on premises). There is more to the definition of SaaS, of course, and there’s a lot of subjectivity in those definitions....…
December 7, 2011
How Portals & Self-Service Access Give Accounting Firms an Advantage
Thought leaders share insight on how client portals lead to happier, more engaged clients who have secure, anytime/anywhere access to their most recent data and information.
December 7, 2011
How to Choose a Business Name and Give It Meaning
The nation’s most notable brands, what are they? Brands such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Ebay may come to mind. If you’re in the initial phases of starting a small business, rebooting your brand, or rolling out a new product or promotion, you most likely aspire to have a brand name that everyone knows as...…