How to use Excel’s Evaluate tool to understand complicated formulas.
Information management and technology assurance
Microsoft Excel: How to reference vertical cells horizontally
A handy trick makes it possible to reference vertical data horizontally.
How to protect your CPA practice from hackers
Nick Graf, an ethical hacker with CNA, discusses all the cyber threats that go bump in the night and ways to prevent them from harming your business.
Why finance executives should care about blockchain
This column discusses five reasons finance executives should care about blockchain and its potential.
Microsoft Word: How to connect numbered lists
How to connect a subsequent numbered list to a previous numbered list in Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Excel: Rules for designing Excel workbooks
By following a common set of spreadsheet design rules, companies can produce more consistent workbooks that may be easier to review, edit, and use by others in their organizations.
Retail technology: Amazon leapfrogs RFID shopping
Do you still believe RFID technology is the future?
Expanding your app-titude
EZ Texting lives up to its name in a big way … DialMyCalls does that and a whole lot more
A new cybersecurity risk management reporting framework for management and CPAs
The framework gives an organization’s management criteria for explaining its cybersecurity risk management program and provides CPAs with guidance to be used in engagements to report on clients’ cybersecurity controls.
New audit data standard addresses inventory subledger
Basic analysis of the inventory process can become easier through use of a new audit data standard issued by the AICPA Assurance Services Executive Committee.
Using Excel and Benford’s Law to detect fraud
This Technology Workshop shows how to use Microsoft Excel to determine whether the numbers in a data set follow Benford’s curve or point to possible malfeasance.
What fonts work best in Excel?
When it comes to choosing the best font for displaying both text and numbers, the font you choose matters.
Expanding your app-titude: You can Bond with ‘handwritten’ notes
A monthly look at apps and websites that can make the CPA’s job and life better.
Default Google Chrome to incognito mode
To launch Chrome’s incognito mode by default in Windows 10, create a shortcut on your Desktop and edit the shortcut’s command line as follows.
Tricks for typing in Microsoft Word tables
Text does behave somewhat differently when typed into tables, and Word provides some additional tools specifically designed for typing in tables.
Use of driver’s license numbers raises security concerns
The decision of the IRS and some states to recommend—or, in a few cases, require—the use of driver’s license numbers as form of authentication on electronically filed personal tax returns has made them a higher-value target for hackers and other criminals.
CFOs try to focus on strategy, but IT systems get in the way
Strategic planning is among the top priorities for CFOs in a new survey, but some finance chiefs feel hampered by legacy IT systems.
Great links for increasing your digital knowledge
These recently released publications can help jump-start CPA efforts to remain competitive in the evolving digitized environment.
Expanding your app-titude
Worth your Tile: Find keys or wallet easily with app … Updates boost Automatic’s tracking of driving habits
Advanced calculators for your smartphone
Almost all smartphones include a calculator, but not all of them are advanced enough to meet the demanding needs of a true tech-savvy CPA.
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