Many of you know that Source Media will soon roll Practical Accountant and Accounting Technology into Accounting Today. I am saddened by the loss of the publication’s two editors and colleagues, Jeff Stimpson (Practical Accountant) and Bob Scott (Accounting Technology), and wish them well in their new endeavors. The loss of these two niche publications […]
A couple of weeks ago, I received a press release from Commercial Logic, Inc., a company that’s been around the accounting space since 1981, mostly offering practice management systems and such. The gist of the announcement is that they’ve partnered with Advanced Professional Solutions (APS), which apparently has had a strong user base in the […]
Whether we’re talking about the recession or the latest celebrity mishap, my close friends sometimes refer to me as a “Pollyanna” – always seeing the brighter side of the situation. You know the type: the eternal optimist … the glass really is half full … give a person five chances. That’s why a Financial Times […]
The keyboard of your computer is filthy. Even if it doesn't have that familiar brown-to-black border around each key. Even if you are the one person in a billion who never eats or drinks anything at your workstation. Even if you are the cleanest, most obsessive neat freak on the planet. Over time, tiny bits of human skin, hair, dust, and some stuff you don't even know about, have collected under, between and on the keys of your computer keyboard (and mouse!).
Welcome to CPATechViews.com, a blog covering technologies that affect tax and accounting professionals. CPATechViews.com features posts by practicing professionals, technology consultants and the editorial staff of The CPA Technology Advisor, the profession’s most trusted source for technology information. While this is the first blog entry for CPATechViews.com, The CPA Technology Advisor has long enjoyed a […]
I’ve been online almost from the beginning of the personal computer age. I was an early adapter to CompuServe, ran forums on AOL and MSN, haunted the bulletin boards from coast to coast in the night hours, and moved to the commercial Internet in the spring of ’94. That doesn’t prove much except that I […]
Do you Facebook and Tweet? What’s LinkedIn all about? Why is a blog important? When I work with tax and accounting professionals, they are constantly asking me to explain what social media is, what it can do for their practice, and most importantly, how to determine ROI. I’m not surprised. After all, accountants are logical, […]
From the April/May 2009 Issue Change is all around us — a new president, a changing banking system, and an onslaught of new tax codes represent only a few of the notable changes that have occurred over the past year. In line with this theme, even The CPA Technology Advisor is changing. This is the […]