Technology

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September 9, 2013 

The Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Accounting

Accounting firms across the country are looking to the cloud to transform their client accounting services. They are looking to move from simply transactional bookkeeping services to higher value advisory services more in line with the CFO function.

Jim Boomer

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September 8, 2013 

Income Tax Planning Takes More than a Magic 8-Ball

On the conference room shelf of a CPA’s office I visited recently, I noticed a Magic 8-Ball with the label “free tax answers.” When turned, the die floating in colored liquid inside the ball presses against the window to reveal an affirmative, negative, or non-committal answer such as “cannot predict now.”

Dustin Wheeler

 How Technology is Finally Transforming Practice Management

September 5, 2013 

How Technology is Finally Transforming Practice Management

“It’s old, but it gets the job done.” It’s a phrase that has kept countless time and billing systems limping along after they’re well past their expiration dates. Even as firms roll out shiny new client-side technology, practice management often creeps along in a parallel universe of carbonless copies and sticky notes.

 Small business employment off slightly in August

September 4, 2013 

Small business employment off slightly in August

Employment at small businesses in the U.S. dropped slightly in August, although employees saw increased compensation and hours worked. Small business revenues overall declined 0.18 percent in July; the construction industry was the only sector to show an increase, of 0.3 percent.

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August 29, 2013 

The In-Firm Annual IT-Security Employee Briefing

Most organizations today assume that their IT personnel do an adequate job of protecting the firm’s network and data by implementing and monitoring firewalls, keeping their operating systems/applications up to date, and mandating password changes on a scheduled basis.

Roman Kepczyk