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June 15, 2017

How audit methodologies will change in the future

Embracing technology and making changes in your firm now will help your firm succeed in the future as new technologies enable auditors to provide more value to clients.

June 14, 2017

Technology trends for accounting firm leaders

Rapid advances in technology are causing headaches and creating opportunities for accounting firms.

June 14, 2017

Association, CPA.com launch ‘Shark Tank’ for startups

The Association and CPA.com Startup Accelerator will provide funding and other support to as many as five early-stage companies that emerge from a competition.

June 13, 2017

Why CPAs need to get a grip on blockchain

The decentralized ledger system may seem confusing, but it also adds up to new opportunities for savvy financial professionals.

June 13, 2017

Furious rush of digital disruption creates opportunities for CPAs to help clients

The demand is increasing for CPA firms to understand how new technologies are affecting clients.

June 1, 2017

A factor of singular importance in cloud computing

What should CPAs be doing to better protect their data and derive more value from the investments in technology? Find out from our panel of accounting technology experts.

June 1, 2017

Expanding your app-titude: Scanbot and Photomyne

Digitize documents with Scanbot … Quickly capture images with Photomyne

June 1, 2017

How financial statement audits deliver key business insights

Increased use of data analytics is helping auditors find more information that could be helpful to clients.

June 1, 2017

Microsoft Word: A simple solution to a new issue with Word’s speech recognition tool

By default, later versions of Microsoft’s speech recognition tool record your dictation into a dialog box called the dictation scratchpad.

June 1, 2017

The single factor of most concern in the cloud

Our annual technology roundtable explores the importance of multifactor authentication and solutions for securing clients’ data in the cloud.

June 1, 2017

Microsoft Word: How to number your items in a paragraph format

How to number a large quantity of bullets horizontally in Microsoft Word.

June 1, 2017

Microsoft Excel: How to evaluate complex formulas

How to use Excel’s Evaluate tool to understand complicated formulas.

June 1, 2017

Microsoft Excel: How to reference vertical cells horizontally

A handy trick makes it possible to reference vertical data horizontally.

May 8, 2017

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.

May 8, 2017

Why finance executives should care about blockchain

This column discusses five reasons finance executives should care about blockchain and its potential.

May 1, 2017

Microsoft Word: How to connect numbered lists

How to connect a subsequent numbered list to a previous numbered list in Microsoft Word.

May 1, 2017

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.

May 1, 2017

Retail technology: Amazon leapfrogs RFID shopping

Do you still believe RFID technology is the future?

May 1, 2017

Expanding your app-titude

EZ Texting lives up to its name in a big way … DialMyCalls does that and a whole lot more

April 26, 2017

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.

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How a CPA beat burnout after strokes, depression

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