June 29, 2016
While there seems to be very positive trends in both supply and demand across the report, many small and mid-sized firms are having trouble finding qualified applicants. If we dig a bit deeper, we begin to see why.
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April 16, 2010
Congrats on making it through another tax season! I ran into this funny, but pretty intelligent little video on YouTube about automated online backup for accounting professionals. It’s worth three minutes to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LJcAy_gfDQ I also wrote about online professional backup systems in our April issue, which just went live today- you can read it...…
April 13, 2010
How many presentations have you been to – or even produced yourself – in which the type was too small to read from across the room or there was too much on a slide to be able to read anything at all? This is a rhetorical question, of course, because we all have seen terrible...…
April 6, 2010
As technologically reliant as modern tax and accounting professionals are, it is astounding, at least to me, that about half of practices in the U.S. don’t even bother to have a website. Yet, that’s what our annual reader surveys and Productivity Survey continues to show, and both correspond with measurements made by the AICPA and...…
April 5, 2010
As the 2010 busy season comes to a close in a little over a week, I’m sure many of my fellow colleagues will take a few days to rest and relax. As for me, I’m planning a quiet trip with my wife to see our son in the Air Force. The weeks following busy season...…
April 2, 2010
I wanted to build on Rick Telberg’s excellent story on CPA Trendlines on how business owners define success. According to research conducted by the Enterprise Council on Small Business, Rick wrote that “business owners surprisingly found that ‘satisfaction” was the primary way they defined success, followed by ‘growth.’ They asked business owners to define what...…
March 24, 2010
64-bit computing is here! Microsoft has forced the 64-bit transition by making Exchange 2007 only available in 64-bit, and now Windows Server 2008 R2 is only available in 64-bit. These two fundamental changes have increased the pace of the transition to 64-bit computing. As the transition speed increases, does it make sense to purchase 32-bit...…
March 22, 2010
For firms that still think there is no return on investment for social media … it’s time to wake up and smell the ROI coffee. I’ve been active in social media for some time now, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The key is to be active on a frequent basis. In other words, you have...…
March 16, 2010
Are you using Search Engine Optimization? I’ve taken informal surveys asking accounting professionals about SEO on their Websites – only to be met either extreme resistance (“I don’t have time”) or blank stares (“I don’t know how to do that.”). First and foremost, make sure you realize one important thing: unless you’re technically skilled in HTML...…
March 15, 2010
You may have participated in the recent CPA Technology Advisor survey – we received well over 1,000 responses to our readership survey. Based on your feedback, we are adjusting our content and many of our focuses to meet your needs. Baby steps are better than no steps at all – and sometimes, we take...…
March 4, 2010
For years, many communities in Alaska have laid claim to the highest sales tax rates in the nation. But no longer, according to a report by Vertex, Inc., a provider of sales tax research data and compliance solutions for enterprise businesses. But no longer.
March 2, 2010
Following up on Isaac O’Bannon’s very well-timed post about the paperless office, I wanted to share my experience with the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300. Promoted as an instant PDF mobile scanner, I had my doubts about quality and ease of use – but am, instead, completely blown away by how simple the ScanSnap is to use....…
February 20, 2010
Okay, just a little humor as professionals start to really dig into the tax season. Despite the ongoing movement by tax and accounting practices toward paperless processes as a part of modern workflow, print is, of course, still ocassionally necessary. So, let’s try a couple of new terms when referring to the occasional paper functions...…