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June 6, 2011 

Helping Clients Succeed: A SaaSy Approach

Imagine an accounting practice where you rarely met your clients, didn’t market to the local business community or belong to chambers of commerce … and don’t even have a sign on the office. You worked pretty much when you wanted to and tried to focus on anything but tax returns. This is probably nearly impossible...…

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June 1, 2011 

10 Opportunities For Optimizing A Firm’s Administrative Department

Column: Technology in Practice June 2011 Online Exclusive In most firms, the internal administrative department is among the last to adopt less paper technologies because the focus of most firms is on tax and audit production. Having said that, there are a lot of opportunities to update administrative processes to take advantage of today’s “less...…

Roman Kepczyk

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May 26, 2011 

4 Key Components of an Electronic Workflow Process

The term workflow as it relates to tax, accounting and other segments of information administration, is not new to business professionals. The use of technology tools to aid in the control of workflow is, however, on the rise and is helping many organizations of all sizes improve their back office operations. A basic definition of...…

Karl Egnatoff

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May 23, 2011 

How to Get Your Firm to Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine:

The literal definition of a well-oiled machine is … well, a machine that is well-oiled. It’s a term I use figuratively quite often to describe a business that is producing strong revenues and operating at peak efficiency … without an excess amount of effort. When I think back 10 years to what I thought was...…

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May 1, 2011 

The Great 4G Hoax

Everywhere you look these days, cellular companies are touting new lines of 4G-enabled products. All four of the major cellular companies — which will shortly be reduced to three, if AT&T gets its way and swallows up T-Mobile — have announced ambitious plans to deploy 4G networks. Even President Obama has gotten into the act,...…

Dave McClure

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April 26, 2011 

Symposium Draws Profession’s Thought Leaders

Where does innovation come from? While this may be a rhetorical question for some, it was precisely the intent of the inaugural CPA Practice Advisor Thought Leader Symposium, which brought together 25 of the most influential tax and accounting professionals, technophiles and consultants for three days of collaboration and dialogue. As the host of the...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 The Evolution of Technology for the Accounting Profession

April 19, 2011 

The Evolution of Technology for the Accounting Profession

Every accountant knows that accounting is the language of business. That language has gone through many changes throughout the ages. But through all the changes accounting technology has always played a part in making the accountant’s job just a little easier. As our knowledge of technology increased so has the accountant’s ability to analyze statistical…

Agnes Ann Pepe