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 How to Maintain Your Equilibrium

August 1, 2009 

How to Maintain Your Equilibrium

Years ago on my birthday I received a gyroscope for a gift. Perhaps you’ve seen one of these fascinating, scientific versions of a top. Still in production today, they have changed little from the original model produced in 1917. Pull the string and the finely tuned wheel whirls softly as it creates a near perfect...…

Tom Ellsworth

 Tax Systems Offer Trial Balance Options

August 1, 2009 

Tax Systems Offer Trial Balance Options

In this section (2009 Review of Engagement & Trial Balance Systems), we have reviewed several products that are stand-alone engagement/trial balance products that are very useful for firms, but you may be saying “I don’t need a stand-alone product to meet my trial balance needs.” Your firm may concentrate primarily on tax returns, and you...…

 Stay Tuned for a Stronger Microsoft

July 28, 2009 

Stay Tuned for a Stronger Microsoft

You would have to living on the side of a mountain not to hear about Microsoft and the problems its endured over the last several years: declining revenues, slow-to-market product growth and the shortcomings of Windows Vista are just a few of the issues. I believe things are about to change – for the better....…

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA

 Bing? (Yawn)

July 23, 2009 

Bing? (Yawn)

Fellow CPATechViews blogger Dave McClure recently wrote about Google’s new foray into the land of operating systems (See: Killing Microsoft: www.cpatechviews.com/2009/07/killing-microsoft). He also notes Microsoft’s latest entry in the search engine field with Bing.com. Just as I don’t think Microsoft has much to worry about (yet) from a Google cloud-based operation system, I also don’t...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 Should you Give Employees Access to Facebook, Twitter?

July 16, 2009 

Should you Give Employees Access to Facebook, Twitter?

When I talk with clients and present to groups about social media, one of the most often-asked questions I get it whether an organization ought to give its employees access to social media while they are at work. Firms, companies and organizations of all kinds and sizes are concerned that their staff is going to...…

Scott Cytron

 Harry Potter and the Vast Opportunities in a CPA Firm

July 14, 2009 

Harry Potter and the Vast Opportunities in a CPA Firm

As we brace ourselves for yet another Harry Potter movie, I think Harry and his friends would want to cast a spell on today’s CPA firm – to enable partners to see the vast opportunities right in front of our eyes. Although my pop-culture allusion may be a bit lame, there’s nothing mystical about determining...…

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA