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March 20, 2020

Switch to virtual client meetings amid coronavirus fears

CPAs who run virtual firms share their top tips for educating clients about online meetings and holding successful virtual meetings.

March 16, 2020

Top cyberthreats targeting accounting firms

An expert outlines three of the top external cyberthreats accounting firms face and provides pointers on how to reduce a firm’s risk of becoming a victim.

March 13, 2020

Tech tips for firms responding to coronavirus

A CPA firm’s IT director shares advice for organizations to assess and set up longer-term remote work in the wake of coronavirus concerns.

March 13, 2020

What to do if staff can’t make it to the office

As the coronavirus pandemic leads to staff scattering, here is expert advice on what firms can do to make remote working work.

March 10, 2020

Sort by color to group highlighted cells in Excel

Highlighting cells with different colors can help you quickly identify information in a spreadsheet. Excel also lets you sort by color to easily group all the information you’ve highlighted with a given color. Learn how.

March 1, 2020

Keeping up with deadlines using a dynamic spreadsheet

Microsoft Excel can keep track of deadline information in several ways.

March 1, 2020

Power BI: An analytical view

Data visualization applications such as Microsoft’s Power BI and Tableau can unlock the value of data. This article explores how Power BI works.

March 1, 2020

5 quick tips to improve your Google game

Searching the internet has become an everyday aspect of our lives. Here are five tips that could benefit even an advanced searcher.

March 1, 2020

The IF function mastered

Once you master the IF function, you will wonder how you ever lived without it.

March 1, 2020

Invite success with Eventbrite, Paperless Post

A monthly look at applications, gadgets, and other technology that can improve a CPA’s job and life.

March 1, 2020

Excel vs. Tableau: See your data differently

This article compares the data visualization program Tableau to Excel, examines their relative strengths, and provides a simple walk-through on how to use Tableau.

February 24, 2020

More businesses using AI as tools emerge

New tools offer the promise of making automated machine learning available to organizations that don’t have AI or data analytics experts readily available.

February 17, 2020

Open source information and forensic accountants

Veteran investigator Cynthia Hetherington offers practical tips and guidance on how forensic accountants can use the open source information found on the internet to make themselves smarter, better investigators while staying within privacy laws.

February 11, 2020

Get started teaching blockchain

Experts offer best practices for helping students and faculty get up to speed.

February 11, 2020

Use Excel’s Flash Fill to automatically fill in data quickly

How to use Excel’s Flash Fill feature, including a keyboard shortcut for both Windows and Excel for Mac.

February 3, 2020

Where accounting really stands with blockchain

Erik Asgeirsson, president and CEO of CPA.com, and Ron Quaranta, founder and chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, examine tax and accounting issues related to cryptoassets and explore assurance opportunities blockchain is creating for accountants.

February 3, 2020

3 ways to defeat ransomware: Plan, prevent, not pay

This article discusses ways to prepare for this kind of cyberthreat.

February 1, 2020

What is artificial intelligence?

There are two main categories of AI: artificial general intelligence (AGI) and narrow artificial intelligence (NAI).

February 1, 2020

‘New’ payment apps CPAs should know

A monthly look at applications, gadgets, and other technology that can improve a CPA’s job and life.

February 1, 2020

The easy way to join text in Excel

If you have Excel 2019 or Excel 365, you can use the function TEXTJOIN to quickly join text in one cell and separate the text with any delimiter, even if you have many rows or columns of data to join.

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