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 Apps We Love: Mobile Payments

November 21, 2017 

Apps We Love: Mobile Payments

From tracking KPIs or managing client communications, or even digging them out of a financial hole while cruising at 35,000 feet, these business apps keep busy professionals tuned into their firm and client needs, which definitely helps productivity.

Gail Perry

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November 21, 2017 

A Step Into the Future of Cloud Accounting

As a cloud-based accounting firm, we are major proponents of using modern technology to better serve our clients and build a stronger business. Peering into the future of the accounting industry and anticipating its potential impacts is an important ...

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November 21, 2017 

Will New Use Tax Laws Kill Tax Free Shopping?

Recently, Scott Peterson, Vice President of U.S. Tax Policy and Government Relations for Avalara, conducted a Facebook Live Chat to discuss use tax laws and shipping. This is a topic CPAs and accountants should know more about - not only to educate ...

Scott Peterson

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November 21, 2017 

New Sales Tax Reporting Requirements for Remote Sellers

As state and local tax authorities continue to pursue lost sales tax revenue from out-of-state business e-commerce, a new enforcement approach has emerged. Referred to as “reporting laws,” these statutes require out-of-state sellers with no sales tax ...

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November 21, 2017 

2017 Review of Time Management Systems

Much more than simply a tracking time, these time management systems help firms manage staff productivity, assess client profitability, while also offering an easy to use mechanism for tracking time and billing information, including any related expenses.

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 20, 2017 

Workplace Boredom Kills Productivity

If you've ever had a case of the blahs at work, you're not alone. According to a new survey from staffing firm OfficeTeam, professionals admit they're bored in the office an average of 10.5 hours per week. That's more than a full day a week, or the ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 November 2017 Small Business Channel

November 20, 2017 

November 2017 Small Business Channel

Veteran Business Owners Thriving, Extremely Upbeat on Economy By Isaac M. O’Bannon, Managing Editor Optimism among veteran small business owners is outpacing the nation’s small businesses as a whole, according to this year’s Allstate/USA Today Small Business Barometer. The annual index study released new data ahead of Veterans Day showing that veteran entrepreneurs’ optimism is...…

 November 2017 Firm Management Channel

November 20, 2017 

November 2017 Firm Management Channel

Accounting Firm Cybersecurity: Training Your Staff and Protecting Your Business By Christina Wiseman, Thomson Reuters From the Thomson Reuters blog. It probably won’t surprise you to hear that tax identity theft is on the rise. In response to this increase in tax-related ID theft, last year the IRS rolled out new security requirements that recommended...…

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November 20, 2017 

November 2017 Payroll Channel

The IRS has announced the 2018 cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) with respect to retirement plan limits. Many limits, which are adjusted by reference to Code Sec. 415(d), are changed for 2018 since the increase in the cost-of-living index met the ...

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November 20, 2017 

5 Must-Have Workplace Policies

By implementing or updating as needed, and consistently enforcing five (5) practical and well-known workplace policies, most employers can dramatically decrease the potential that a workplace decision involving an employee will result in ...

Richard D. Alaniz, JD

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November 20, 2017 

Valuation of a Cannabis Business

The Internal Revenue Code is so vast, and the laws surrounding cannabis are so complicated, that you have to stay up to date on the pulse of the community. My license is a Federal License and I have about 75 cannabis clients all over the country.

Craig Smalley