Tricks & Tips
An interesting recent conversation with the principal of a small accounting firm has driven me to address the personal use of the Internet by employees at work.
An interesting recent conversation with the principal of a small accounting firm has driven me to address the personal use of the Internet by employees at work.
From the Aug. 2006 Issue The following products and services can help you as you strive to brand your firm’s image at every touch point. Bind-It (www.BindIt.com) When providing clients with copies of their returns and other documents, accountants have long turned to Bind-It for professional document finishing systems. The company offers a wide array […]
Public accounting is a very special profession. I’m sure you each vividly remember your first day on the job, fresh out of school and … dumb as a box of rocks. Of course, you didn’t know the last part.
OPINION -- Well, actually it’s only ONE idea --- but its SO BAD that it could well qualify for all 10 places. The IRS is seeking to revise the privacy rules to allow commercial return preparers to share confidential taxpayer information to third party data brokers for marketing purposes.
MICROSOFT officially launched its Small Business Accounting program on September 7, 2005. This long-planned launch just happens to coincide (well, within a few months anyway) with rival INTUIT’s release of QuickBooks 2006, which just happens to be the most revolutionary rewrite of the company’s flagship product since it’s original release.
Even as professional accountants continue to move toward the ideal of the paperless office, printers remain an integral component of all practices. Try as we might, some things still need to be on paper, whether because various local, state or federal entities haven’t quite gotten everything set up to receive electronically, or because a contract or other agreement feels more official in three dimensions.
At the California Accounting and Business Show & Conference in Los Angeles, I caught up with Bob Lewis, Microsoft U.S. Small Business Group’s Senior Marketing Manager, Accounting Professionals, and we visited about his new role in representing the soon-to-be-released Small Business Accounting product to the accounting profession. Here are some excerpts from that conversation.
Tax Research from CFS Tax Software is a CD-based tax research program that provides the following: primary documents such as Internal Revenue Code, IRS Publications, Regulations, Revenue Rulings & Procedures, Letter Rulings and Technical Advice Memos, announcements and notices, the Penalty Handbooks, new legislation and tax laws, SSA publications, U.S. Tax Treaties and court opinions, […]