Technology

 In Firm: 2017 IT Predictions and 2016 Results

December 29, 2016 

In Firm: 2017 IT Predictions and 2016 Results

With another year end (and tax season) rapidly approaching, it’s time to once again dust off the magic crystal ball and cobble together our 2017 CPA Firm Technology and Production predictions. This listing will hopefully provide you with fresh insight ...

Roman Kepczyk

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December 26, 2016 

Trend to Watch in 2017: Paid Leave is Picking Up Steam

Benefits are a huge lure in attracting and retaining top talent, especially in light of the changing composition of the U.S. workforce. Today, we have a growing number of women in the workforce and dual-earner families, which means married couples ...

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December 20, 2016 

What Drives Workplace Happiness?

Happiness at work is something nearly everyone wants, but it varies by an employee's age, gender and field, among other factors. This is one of the findings of a new comprehensive study of more than 12,000 U.S. and Canadian workers by Robert Half, in ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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December 19, 2016 

Apps We Love: To-Do Lists

We like lists. It goes with the territory of keeping track of numbers and transactions and all the moving pieces of our and our clients’ businesses. As we approach the end of the year, resolutions to be more efficient and organized are often on our minds.

Gail Perry

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December 19, 2016 

For a Definition of Value, Just Ask Your Employees

The first step is specifying value from the standpoint of the customer. Accounting firms have multiple customers. The easiest to identify are, of course, the clients who pay you. But as you begin to understand the core of Lean, you need to identify ...

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December 19, 2016 

CCH Axcess has Streamlined Sachetta & Callahan’s Tax Practice

It was not so long ago that the administrative work accompanying the annual tax preparation process was arduous at best. Most tax accountants except the very youngest among us can remember the file cabinets, the piles of papers and workpaper folders ...

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December 15, 2016 

The Lure of Technology

There was also the luxury of moving at a leisurely pace. I was studying computer science, learning programming languages, solving problems too complex for paper and pencil and (non-handheld) calculators, but I had days and even weeks to solve a ...

Gail Perry