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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.

April 6, 2017

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.

April 1, 2017

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.

April 1, 2017

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.

April 1, 2017

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.

April 1, 2017

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.

April 1, 2017

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.

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