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.
Information management and technology assurance
Cybersecurity: Unknown Google device
How to remove devices from your Google account.
Microsoft Excel: A formula for going green
How to color-code formulas in Excel.
Microsoft Word: Making the grade
Here’s how to check your Word document’s reading grade level using the Flesch-Kincaid score.
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.
Microsoft Excel: Rowing logically
How to convert these two or three lines of data records into single rows.
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.
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.
Expanding your app-titude
This month: Make meeting planning easier with Doodle … Want to schedule ahead with Uber? Try TimeTravel
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.
Businesses and tax ID theft
Businesses may need CPAs’ help in protecting against and remedying tax-related identity theft.
Microsoft Excel: The highly coveted ceramic chicken award
Q: At the June AICPA Tech+ Conference, you began your Excel presentation by asking the audience if they had ever used specific Excel features and functions; can you please share that list with me? A:I frequently begin my Excel presentations to large audiences by finding the most Excel-savvy CPA in the
Expanding your app-titude
This month: Take your billing efforts mobile with Invoice2go .. Accept credit card payments with Square Register
Microsoft Word: The ideal setting
Q: I’ve grown weary of having to change Word’s default fonts and formats, as well as insert footers each time I create a new Word document, so I’ve resorted to opening a saved blank document where I’ve already specified my default fonts and formats, including my default footer. This seems to
Microsoft Excel: Give me a break
Q: I can’t figure out why the “Page break between groups” option in my Excel 2013 workbook doesn’t work.
The 2015 CPA technology gift guide
Laptops, tablets, watches, and more: This holiday season features goodies galore!
Microsoft Excel reader tip: Simple and elegant date conversions
In response to the August Technology Q&A topic “Dating Problems, Part 3” (page 85), reader Daniel Warco, CPA, (controller for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington) sent me a better solution than the ones I had suggested. As a reminder, the Excel question involved converting two-digit-year, text-based numbers
Electronic payments: Credit cards getting smarter
In an effort to combat credit card fraud, the U.S. credit card industry has adopted the EMV credit card standards.
Google Android: Easy does it
How to block unsolicited spam callers on Android-based smartphones.
Expanding your app-titude
Keep track of your staff with Simple In/Out … Build a Strikingly website; track traffic with the app
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