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New mapping tools on Excel 2016
Microsoft Excel 2016 has two new mapping capabilities.
Motorola Turbo 2 update
I dropped my Turbo 2 phone through a couch, and when I tilted the couch to retrieve the phone, I rocked the couch’s metal frame atop the phone and completely shattered the screen; or at least so I thought.
Steven J. Ursillo Jr., CPA/CITP, CGMA
Education and effective governance are keys to an effective cybersecurity policy, according to Steven J. Ursillo Jr., CPA/CITP, CGMA.
Email security: How to encrypt email with Gmail and Outlook.com
Recently, I’ve become concerned about the privacy of sending email. What’s a cheap and easy way to protect my email messages?
Expanding your app-titude: Stop robocalls to your cellphone with Nomorobo
Nomorobo protects voice over internet protocol (VoIP) landlines and cellphones using “simultaneous ring.”
IRS warns tax professionals of another email phishing scam
The latest ploy mimics an IRS request for e-services validation.
Microsoft Excel: 3 ways to calculate internal rate of return in Excel
Excel offers three functions for calculating the internal rate of return, and I recommend you use all three.
Email security: Securing your Gmail account
The best measure you can take to secure your Gmail is to enable two-step verification.
Microsoft Word: How to insert different headers and footers in Word
How to create a Microsoft Word document with different headers and footers.
Windows 10: Get to the Control Panel
The traditional Control Panel option is still available through the Windows 10 Start button, but it is buried deeper in the menu.
Microsoft Excel: Use Excel to quickly count workdays
Excel’s NETWORKDAYS function (available in Excel 2010 and later editions) returns the number of working days in a specified period of time.
Organize your photos with Google
What’s a good way to weed out the duplicate images and organize all of my photos together?
Data mining your general ledger with Excel
Learn how to use Microsoft Excel to unearth and interpret the wealth of data hidden in the general ledger.
Expanding your app-titude
This month: What do employees think of your firm? Look through Glassdoor … Working to connect Alignable businesses
Microsoft Word: Find a lost document
Help, I can’t find the latest draft of the Word document I was working on. I thought I had saved the file before closing Word, but maybe I didn’t. Is there any way to tell?
Microsoft Office: Modify auto-correct
Word’s AutoCorrect function contains corrections for many commonly misspelled or mistyped words.
Client accounting services emerges as strong revenue driver for CPA firms
For firms that offer virtual CFO and other client accounting services, the category is becoming a significant contributor to the top line, according to the results of a survey from the AICPA Private Companies Practice Section and CPA.com.
Expanding your app-titude
A monthly look at apps and websites that can make the CPA’s job and life better. This month: Do! and Asana.
Microsoft Excel: How to turn off Excel’s AutoFormat feature
A few options exist for controlling some of Excel’s AutoFormat behavior.
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The key to success with CAS is selecting the best clients. Tools like ideal client profiles (ICPs), buyer personas, and even artificial intelligence can help identify the businesses that best fit each CAS practice.
