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 2, 2015
Year-End Insights for State and Local Taxes
The deduction for taxes claimed on Schedule A includes amounts paid for state and local income taxes such as the taxes withheld from your paychecks and any estimated taxes paid during the year. It also includes property taxes if you’re a homeowner.
October 30, 2015
Paperless Choices for the Firm and Your Clients
This year we’ve had the pleasure of recommending software programs for accounting, payroll and other critical areas of your practice. Now is the time to consider your paperless or Document Management Solution (DMS) needs. You’ll find that our ...
October 2, 2015
Handicapping the Accounting Conferences
When you choose to devote time to attending a conference, I hope you approach it with the enthusiasm I felt and still feel – the opportunity to learn from the pros, improve your skills, share in spirited conversations about the accounting profession...
October 22, 2015
The 10 Commandments of the Successful CPA
What you do learn in 40 years or so is what separates a successful CPA from one that struggles every year with mediocre clients and profits. My list of successful attributes is what I like to call the 10 Commandments of a successful CPA starts with ...
October 19, 2015
5 Hiring and Salary Trends That Will Shape Public Accounting in 2016
Growth indicators for the second half of 2015 are providing a glimpse into the hiring environment for 2016, and it appears the race to attract and retain top accounting talent is only heating up.
October 19, 2015
2015 Review of Professional Payroll Systems
For accounting firms considering adding payroll to their suite of products that are offered to clients, the payroll reviews this month will certainly come in handy. And for those already offering these services, it never hurts to see what’s available.
October 16, 2015
Building a Thriving Payroll Practice
Now serving clients in 30 states, he says the feature of Payroll Relief he values the most is the ability to securely send payroll runs to his clients where they can print payroll checks at their location. The system also has direct deposit. Year-end repo
October 16, 2015
Making Payroll Easy and Affordable – Payroll Mate
Payroll can be a headache for many small businesses, especially for professional firms like law offices. With partners, staff and paralegals to pay, the tasks associated with payroll can be tedious even for those with financial experience.
October 16, 2015
Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
For people who are still on the fence about whether or not cloud-based technology can provide the best solutions for you, some of the most highly regarded technology providers in the world would like to clarify this cloud situation for you.
October 16, 2015
Apps We Love: Travel Tools
Whether you're traveling for business or personal, alone or with colleagues or friends or family members, domestically or internationally – we all know that getting from point A to point B can cause frustration, confusion, and disorientation. We surveyed
October 15, 2015
The 5 Major Pains of Sales Tax Filing and Remittance
In an effort to increase income and cash flow, a number of jurisdictions are adding prepayment requirements for larger tax amounts. Prepayment requires payments to be made to jurisdictions on a different filing schedule, sometimes more than once a month.
October 15, 2015
A Window into the Cloud: Intuit Launches New QuickBooks Online Windows App
The QuickBooks Online Windows app combines the benefits of the web-based QuickBooks Online platform with the advantages offered in the desktop version to offer users features such as real-time collaboration, keyboard shortcuts, top menu bar and ...