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February 19, 2018 

CES 2018: Accounting Hardware Highlights

Each January, over 170,000 technology and electronics enthusiasts descend upon Las Vegas to attend the world’s largest Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to see the latest consumer technologies. While a significant amount of the media attention ...

Roman Kepczyk

 IRC Sec 751 in a Nutshell

February 14, 2018 

IRC Sec 751 in a Nutshell

With a Section 751 Transfer, we are usually talking about a commercial building or an appreciable asset. For this article, we are going to stick with a commercial building, because it is easier to explain. Let’s say you have a partner that has a ...

Craig Smalley

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February 13, 2018 

The Gig Economy and Accountants

Bankers driving Lyft. Software engineers launching businesses on Amazon. Marketing professionals picking up consulting projects. Welcome to the gig economy. Where employees have a side hustle, or three, and others have left the paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle of Corporate America for the project-to-project grind. According to Investopedia, the gig economy is defined as an economy where temporary,...…

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February 13, 2018 

Why and How: A Strategy for Innovation

Over the last two to three years we have watched pundits and consultants promote ideas around emerging technologies. Some of the claims are ludicrous, loony, and ill-informed. Others are trying to position, parlay and learn. You’ve seen this column ...

Randy Johnston

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February 9, 2018 

3 Ways CFOs Can Accelerate Payback from New Technology

Though many recognize that implementing a modern cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is an obvious answer — many that take start the transition are surprised by marginal improvements, slow user adoption, and unchanged processes that still ...

Tom Kelly

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February 9, 2018 

Excel Users: The Haves and the Have-Nots

Historically once a version of Excel was released then it's feature set was locked for the typically three-year lifespan of that version. Conversely, the Office 365 version of Excel 2016 has been receiving periodic updates, sometimes as frequently as ...

David Ringstrom

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February 9, 2018 

Be Relentless in the Pursuit of Change

Has your firm started the transformation to advisory services? If not, in the not so distant future you will be too behind to catch up. That sounds harsh, but it’s better to face the reality that soon the gap will be so wide that your options for ...

Arianna Campbell