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Nominations Open for Innovation Awards and 40 Under 40 Awards
Nominations are currently being accepted for CPA Practice Advisor's 40 Under 40, 20 Under 40, and Tax & Accounting Tech Innovation Awards.
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 ...
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 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...…
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.