What will accounting firms and accounting departments look like after lower-level, repetitive tasks are automated and unprecedented amounts of data can be mined for business insights? That topic takes center stage in the second part of our annual accounting technology roundtable podcast.
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Microsoft Office: 9 PivotTable enhancements in Excel 2016
Microsoft has made several improvements to Excel 2016’s PivotTables.
Microsoft Office: Excel’s versatile CONVERT function
How to use Excel’s CONVERT function to convert a multitude of units of measurements.
Factoring in the time value of money with Excel
This Technology Workshop illustrates how to leverage a number of functions to perform calculations in Excel involving the time value of money.
Online security: The password-recovery questions you should be answering
The challenge for organizations is to not make the security questions so difficult that users are unable to remember their answers later.
How AI, blockchain, and automation will reinvent accounting
Three of the profession’s top technology experts discuss the radical changes emerging technologies will bring to accounting — and accountants — over the next 1–5 years.
SEC publishes new requirements for cybersecurity disclosures
Public companies received new guidance from the SEC on the disclosures they should make related to cybersecurity.
Microsoft Word: Developing checklists in Word
You can convert your Word forms, surveys, and checklists to interactive media simply by inserting some clickable check boxes.
How to choose the right software for retirement planning
Weigh these factors when choosing financial planning software to help clients with retirement planning.
Survey software: Gather data with these applications
How to create forms, surveys, and checklists that are
instantly tabulated for you.
New features in Word 2016
Office 365’s subscription-based edition of Word 2016 has eight new noteworthy features.
Expanding your app-titude: Add a business line to your personal cellphone
A monthly look at apps and websites that can make the CPA’s job and life better.
Skills that help accounting professionals succeed alongside AI
Professionals will have to retain their traditional accounting skills and learn some new ones to succeed alongside AI.
20 cities in the running for Amazon HQ
The online behemoth plans to hire up to 50,000 workers in a second North American headquarters. Did your city make the list?
Microsoft Excel: Count the words in a cell
Use this formula to count the number of words in a Microsoft Excel cell.
Keyboard shortcuts for Facebook
10 keyboard shortcuts for navigating Facebook a little faster when using Google Chrome.
Cloud computing: What should organizations move to the cloud?
You probably shouldn’t put everything in the cloud, but moving nothing to the cloud isn’t the right answer either.
How data-hosting services affect independence
Taking responsibility for hosting an attest client’s data or records impairs a CPA’s independence, according to a new ethics interpretation.
Internet forms: Password-protecting Form 941
How to add password protection to IRS Form 941, Employer’s Quarterly Tax Return.
Getting ready for the EU’s stringent data privacy rule
New data protection regulations in the EU will have far-reaching effects.
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