Taxes January 26, 2026
Welcome to Tax Season 2026
The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.
September 20, 2017
September 2017 Small Business Channel
There may be nothing more certain than death and taxes, but Americans like to push thoughts of that first topic away. Perhaps that's why almost three-fourths of U.S. small businesses don't have a succession plan and most small business owners don't ...
September 20, 2017
Female Partners: A Year Later, Where Are We?
In 2017, female accounting professionals still lack the support they need in the workplace in order to advance their careers. Last year, I wrote a column on the topic of females only being represented in 19% of accounting firm leadership positions, ...
September 20, 2017
How to Value a Green Industry Business
Few topics are as poorly understood as business valuation. Despite common misperceptions, it is a complex topic that cannot be boiled down to simplistic formulas or rules of thumbs.
September 19, 2017
Apps We Love September 2017: Disaster Relief Apps
When natural disasters strike, Americans naturally want to help. And that feeling of compassion is doubled when those catastrophes happen to our neighbors, our fellow citizens.
September 19, 2017
How to Grow Your Landscape Client Base – Including Retailers
Like accountants, landscapers have a busy season and a not-so-busy season, which happens to be nearly opposite of yours. How can you focus your marketing and lead generation efforts during your busiest time of the year to gain new clients?
September 19, 2017
CPA Tomorrowland
This is a tantalizing brave new world for younger accountants who like the idea of turning their penchant for number-crunching into a sexier profession, but what about those who are, ahem, reaching their golden age? It kind of sounds like rather than ...
September 19, 2017
I Bet My Culture is Better Than Yours!
The Culture of Lean? What is the first thing that comes to your mind after reading that? I am willing to bet a lot of money it isn’t what the rest of this piece is about.
September 19, 2017
How to Create a Culture of Innovation
The word innovation is thrown around a lot in our profession. Everyone wants ideas for doing things faster, easier, cheaper, or better. But rather than drive innovation from within the firm, they’re trying to keep up with what others are doing ...
September 18, 2017
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma — Disaster Planning: It’s Back to Basics for Your Firm and Clients
What can firms do to better prepare themselves for disaster? How can they carry through their trusted advisor role to help clients recover? With technology in today’s environment, we all know it’s easier to prepare and plan for a natural disaster ...
September 18, 2017
Leveraging Supplier Payment Networks for ePayments
The hardest problem in B2B payments isn’t moving the money. It’s simple enough to get payment to suppliers electronically through a credit card or ACH network. What’s hard is vendor enablement—knowing which suppliers accept what payment type, and ...
September 18, 2017
Hardware Matters – Think About Working With None!
With so much focus on Cloud and Mobile, can you imagine using your technology with no hardware? Hardware has become so cheap, reliable and generally good, many of us take this part of our technology experience for granted. It has been ten years since ...
September 18, 2017
How Tax Pros Can Stay Busy in the Off Season
I have stayed busy this offseason. For instance, during tax season, my editor gave me an idea to turn all of my articles into continuing professional education (CPE) classes. I hated sitting through boring CPE classes that didn’t hold my attention.