Nominees Announced for 2014 CPA Practice Advisor Innovation Awards

April 21, 2014 

Nominees Announced for 2014 CPA Practice Advisor Innovation Awards

The nominees for the 2014 CPA Practice Advisor Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards have been chosen. As the pinnacle of recognition for technology vendors serving the tax and accounting profession, the awards recognize exceptional product development, breakthrough technologies, state of the art design and implementation, and cutting edge concepts that help accounting professionals and…

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April 21, 2014 

Save It or Lose It – Don’t Let Your Firm’s Data be at Risk

It is impossible to think too much about protecting your data. If you are the business owner, responsible for Information Technology or an IT professional, protecting data has to always be top of mind. Backup and recovery is not an area you can leave to chance. The January installment of this column spoke about alternative…

Randy Johnston

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April 21, 2014 

5 Tips for Using Technology as a Strategic Asset

Is your firm leveraging technology as a strategic asset or is it viewed as simply a cost of doing business? Successful firms view it as an asset and build an IT leadership and governance model that helps harness the power of technology as an accelerator toward improved performance, profitability and growth. There are five aspects…

Jim Boomer

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April 21, 2014 

6 Tips for Managing Underperforming Staff

You may have heard it before, or you may have actually uttered these words, “Why did we wait so long to let an underperforming employee go?" In some firms today it may actually be called the underperforming epidemic or the underperformer drag, but no matter what words you are using to describe the problem, the…

Sandra Wiley

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April 21, 2014 

The Costs of Distracted Driving

How often do you talk on the phone, look at email messages, check the news or weather, read or composts text messages while you're driving? We take pride in our ability to multi-task, but at what cost? Centuries of accountants managed to drive from point A to point B without phones in their hands. Today,…

Jeff Davidson