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March 1, 2016

How social and digital media can be a #majorrisk

Electronic communication can be fraught with peril for the unwary CPA.

March 1, 2016

Digital money: A bit about bitcoin

While the complex details related to using bitcoin exceed the scope of this article, here’s some information that you may find useful.

March 1, 2016

Microsoft Excel: Become an Excel groupie

Tips for using Excel’s Subtotal and PivotTable tools.

March 1, 2016

Microsoft Excel: Excel in handcuffs

How to unhide unused columns and rows.

February 26, 2016

Still more accounts found hacked in IRS “Get Transcript” breach

A TIGTA investigation into the data breach first discovered last May brings the total number of taxpayers whose tax transcripts were potentially compromised to 724,000.

February 16, 2016

Internal auditors challenged by cybersecurity, data quality

Many internal audit departments are short on cybersecurity expertise and lack involvement in evaluating the quality of the data used in their organizations, according to a new survey.

February 10, 2016

IRS suffers another data breach

The IRS revealed that it discovered and stopped an automated cyberattack on its e-filing personal identification number (PIN) system last month.

February 1, 2016

Computer hardware: Accelerate your mouse

How to correct a common computer mistake.

February 1, 2016

Expanding your app-titude

This month: Add some style to your branding with Word Swag … Need a reminder? Try FollowUpThen

February 1, 2016

Microsoft Excel: Failure to launch

How to get Excel to open a new blank workbook upon launching the program.

February 1, 2016

New client services top list of CPA firm priorities

The recent CPA.com Innovation in Public Accounting Survey says practices that have adopted or investigated cloud-based technologies are more likely to perceive a need for faster innovation.

February 1, 2016

Cybersecurity: Unknown Google device

How to remove devices from your Google account.

February 1, 2016

Microsoft Excel: A formula for going green

How to color-code formulas in Excel.

January 1, 2016

Microsoft Word: Making the grade

Here’s how to check your Word document’s reading grade level using the Flesch-Kincaid score.

January 1, 2016

User-friendly internet: Carlton’s pondering

I wonder if those websites know they are pushing some of their readers away with their convoluted reading format, perhaps forever.

January 1, 2016

Microsoft Excel: Rowing logically

How to convert these two or three lines of data records into single rows.

January 1, 2016

Secure data transmission: Button your share

To use ShareFile in its most secure manner, you should check the box labeled Require recipients to log in for each ShareFile message you send.

January 1, 2016

Tax return preparation: Outsource your grunt work

Check out GruntWorx’s Organize and Populate products, which organize your client’s tax documents and enter the data into your tax preparation software automatically.

January 1, 2016

Expanding your app-titude

This month: Make meeting planning easier with Doodle … Want to schedule ahead with Uber? Try TimeTravel

December 8, 2015

CPA firms place new services atop innovation priority list

CPA firms believe the development of new client services should be their top innovation priority over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a new survey.

FROM THIS MONTH'S ISSUE

Build reusable Skills in Anthropic’s Claude AI

Instead of rewriting prompts each time, CPAs can turn routine tasks into reusable AI Skills. This Technology Q&A walks through how to build Claude Skills that process files, ask setup questions, and export clean Excel outputs.