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March 23, 2020 

CPA Practice Advisor Readers’ Choice Awards, now in their 16th year, give our readers the chance to spotlight the technologies they most respect and trust to provide client services, to manage their firms, and to help their clients run their businesses.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

March 16, 2020 

Accounting can be a demanding vocation, particularly from January through April each year, so how can your firm successfully attract and retain high quality employees and ensure they’re not experiencing burnout? One way is through a comprehensive ...

Heather Rudes

March 16, 2020 

It’s not an exaggeration to state that accounting and other professional firms leave millions of dollars of billable time on the table each year due to inaccurate timekeeping mechanisms, lack of accurate tracking, or simply time spent that never ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

March 16, 2020 

Taxing remote sales is relatively new. Since the first states established their sales tax systems in the 1930s, states have had limited taxing authority over businesses based in other states. Indeed, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled more ...

Gail Cole

March 16, 2020 

Most of the time, the difference between success and failure of a project comes down to mindset. In the book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, author Carol S. Dweck explains how mindset impacts growth and change.

Jim Boomer

March 16, 2020 

More and more, we're moving money around with our phones and computers. Remember checks? I opened a new bank account recently and didn't get any checks at all – not even a starter pad. When it comes to transferring money between individuals and ...

Gail Perry

March 16, 2020 

In this issue we are featuring employee benefits. I'd like to point out that some of the benefits we have are taken for granted to the point where they are not even listed as a benefit.

Gail Perry

March 16, 2020 

Approximately half of firms surveyed reported that flexible schedules (56%), reduced hours (50%), compressed work schedules (49%) or telecommuting options (56%) helped attract employees, while about 80 percent of firms said those arrangements helped ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

March 16, 2020 

Tax practitioners can consider sharing this information with their clients and meeting with them to take advantage of the retirement planning opportunities – never a bad thing! Here is a summary of the higher-impact provisions of the SECURE Act.

Mike D'Avolio

March 16, 2020 

The research report reveals tenured workers and retirees are capitalizing on the tight U.S. labor market and the need for skilled workers, by turning to gig work.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

March 16, 2020 

Whether you run a small accountancy firm or serve as a manager for an international CPA firm, being in charge is no easy task. So how you can you make sure “that” manager isn’t you?

Paul McDonald

March 16, 2020 

No matter what role you play in the accounting industry, you probably have thought to yourself more than once, what am I missing?  Is it a transaction for the month, a reconciling item, a payable? Or is it something bigger that has slipped past—like a key performance indicator?  Or something worse, like fraud? Since the...…

Garrett Wagner