Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
November 20, 2017
5 Hiring and Salary Trends for 2018
Demand for accounting professionals remains high, while unemployment for accountants and auditors remains low, below the national average. This is putting pressure on and intensifying hiring competition for accounting firms.
November 20, 2017
Phases of Change
Change evokes many emotions: fear, curiosity, exhaustion, loyalty, paranoia, optimism, rage, and revelation, to name a few. Unfortunately, management often overlooks or underestimates the emotional impact of changes such as mergers, process ...
November 20, 2017
Credit for the Past, Capital for the Future
Intuit introduces a new lending solution, QuickBooks Capital, to help small business owners grow their businesses
November 20, 2017
Is the Password Dying?
It’s not hard to see why people don’t like passwords. We share a lot of sensitive personal information with companies, including Social Security numbers, health records, and bank account and credit card numbers. Even password managers don’t eliminate ...
November 20, 2017
Free Online CPE Conference Dec. 7 – Earn 1-10 Hours of CPE in One Day
Thurs. Dec 7 - Tune in for an hour or two, or settle in and spend the entire day with us. Wear your pajamas if you like – we won’t judge. Starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time and for the next 10 hours you can collect up to 10 CPE credits, we’ll ...
November 17, 2017
November 2017 Tax Channel
All in an effort to minimize filing fraudsters, the IRS has accelerated major information form filing. And to drive home their emphasis, the IRS has drastically increased preparer penalties.
November 16, 2017
Technology Tools for Productivity
New technology tools are frequently showcased first at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas every January. While many innovative products have been initially introduced during CES, there have been a number of useful hardware and software ...
November 16, 2017
A Growth Culture Requires a Solid Foundation of Client Retention
Many firms today are in the midst of “growth initiatives.” This, in its most basic of definitions, refers to trying to grow a firm from its current size to a larger size through increased focus and training on business development activities.
November 15, 2017
The Diffusion of Value Pricing in the Profession
There are two theories that are killing our profession: Pricing by the hour and maintaining timesheets. They are stifling growth, wealth creation and innovation, inhibiting customer service, destroying morale and the quality of life, not to mention ...
November 15, 2017
2017 Most Powerful Women in Accounting
Who are the most influential leaders in the professional accounting space? Increasingly, they are female professionals who are CPAs, consultants or are the developers behind the technologies that help all accounting and tax pros be more efficient and prod
November 7, 2017
5 Topics Every Accountant Should Address with Clients
The start of a new year is the perfect time to touch base with your clients or reach out to new ones. Don’t limit your discussion to traditional tax issues. Take the time to ask existing and prospective clients about their business plans overall.
October 25, 2017
5 Retirement Tips For Landscapers
Entrepreneurs go in business for a number of reasons, and you would be hard pressed to find retirement benefits to be one of them. Yet ask employees about why they chose or stick with a job, and benefits, including retirement, are often listed.