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 The Why and How of Bots for Accounting Firms

October 15, 2018 

The Why and How of Bots for Accounting Firms

Engagement with clients and leveraging your brand is done easier and made stronger with Bots. This emerging technology has promise today and in the future. While applying some Bot technology may be more technically difficult for you to apply without ...

Randy Johnston

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October 15, 2018 

The Cloud: Streamlining Workflow and Automation

As an example of how accountants might leverage the cloud’s capabilities, clients can just scan or take a snapshot of invoices to be paid using an app. Those images go into a document storage system, where an optical character recognition (OCR) system ...

Chandra Bhansali

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October 14, 2018 

Accounting for Political Contributions

We scoured the Federal Election Commission website to find relevant information for accountants who are working with political candidates and campaigns. The following material is excerpted from published reports of the Federal Election Commission.

Gail Perry

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October 14, 2018 

You, Your Clients, And the Cloud

Anyone still skeptical about the importance and viability of cloud software in business probably should consider a line of work that doesn’t involve business. The promise of the cloud (and all its various nomenclatures: “SaaS,” “web,” etc.) is here ...

Robert Israch

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October 14, 2018 

IT Planning for Mergers & Acquisitions

A common issue firms run into when acquiring a new firm is under-licensing. The firm being purchased may be completely under-licensed in certain software programs. Non-compliance can be costly in terms of fees and penalties – running into the tens of ...

Jim Boomer