Client Portals: Gateway to the Future

April 16, 2010 

Client Portals: Gateway to the Future

You would have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the explosive growth of interest in client portals for accounting and tax practices. A number of forces are driving this interest — increased privacy protection regulations, improved vendor solutions and a better understanding of the value proposition. This article provides an in-depth…

John Higgins

 SWK Technologies Achieves Sage Diamond Level Authorized Partner Status

April 15, 2010 

SWK Technologies Achieves Sage Diamond Level Authorized Partner Status

Livingston, N.J., April 15, 2010 – SWK Technologies, Inc., a Sage gold-certified developer and business partner for more than 20 years, recently achieved Diamond Level Authorized Partner status – the highest level achievement for Sage business partners based on sales volume and outstanding client service. “Only a very small percentage of Sage’s business partners achieve...…

 How’s Your Firm’s Website?

April 6, 2010 

How’s Your Firm’s Website?

As technologically reliant as modern tax and accounting professionals are, it is astounding, at least to me, that about half of practices in the U.S. don’t even bother to have a website. Yet, that’s what our annual reader surveys and Productivity Survey continues to show, and both correspond with measurements made by the AICPA and...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 2010 Tax Season…Coming to a close

April 5, 2010 

2010 Tax Season…Coming to a close

As the 2010 busy season comes to a close in a little over a week, I’m sure many of my fellow colleagues will take a few days to rest and relax. As for me, I’m planning a quiet trip with my wife to see our son in the Air Force. The weeks following busy season...…

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA

 Defining Success Leads to Opportunities

April 2, 2010 

Defining Success Leads to Opportunities

I wanted to build on Rick Telberg’s excellent story on CPA Trendlines on how business owners define success. According to research conducted by the Enterprise Council on Small Business, Rick wrote that “business owners surprisingly found that ‘satisfaction” was the primary way they defined success, followed by ‘growth.’ They asked business owners to define what...…

Scott Cytron