Q: Even though I’ve set my Outlook 2010 Junk E-mail Options to High, I still receive so many unsolicited emails it’s maddening. Do I need to purchase a junk email or spam program, or is there something else I can try to reduce my junk email? A: I recommend that
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From “write-up” to right profitable
CPA firms for decades saw little upside to providing basic accounting services to business clients. Bookkeeping and other “write-up” activities required extensive data entry and document transfer that chewed up man-hours but did not require much specialized knowledge. Client accounting services (CAS) were seen as commodities that brought with them
Five Dropbox tips
1. Receive emailed files from others directly into your Dropbox. Paid Dropbox members can create a File Dropbox, which is a special Dropbox folder that enables anyone you invite to email files directly to your Dropbox. To set up a File Dropbox, right-click on any Dropbox folder and select Create
Missing toolbars
Q: I typically surf the web using Internet Explorer’s InPrivate Browsing mode for better safety and privacy, but when I use this mode, some of my toolbar add-ins (such as the Norton toolbar add-in) are no longer displayed. Is there a way to display the Norton toolbar (and other toolbars)
Reverse the negativity
Q: Our company’s old accounting system produces financial reports with trailing minus signs, which we open in Excel and fix manually by retyping the data. Is there an automated way to remove trailing minus signs and convert those numbers to negative numbers with leading minus signs? A: Presented below are
Snake!
Q: I have an Excel worksheet with two columns and more than 1,300 rows of data that I would like to print on legal-size paper in landscape orientation. Is there a way to get the two columns to flow automatically to adjacent columns (across the page) so it fits on
Clients: The end is near
Evaluating clients annually is good practice management for a professional services firm. A firm’s strategies, areas of practice, and risk profile change over time. As a result, certain clients may no longer be a desirable fit for the firm. Similarly, some client behaviors become problematic and can harm the staff’s
Make your point
Q: I added a long numbered list to a Word document, and I want to format the numbered bullets with a different font and font size than the text (so the formatting matches the other lists already included in the document). I am able to select the entire numbered list
What are the risks?
Companies with fewer than 100 employees often find it difficult to implement appropriate fraud prevention and detection techniques. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), in its Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse (2012 issue available here), has consistently reported through the years that small businesses are
A bit disappointed
Q: Embarrassingly, I purchased a new computer last year that was advertised as being pre-installed with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 Professional operating system, and I then spent about three weeks (off and on) installing applications, configuring the system, setting up email, setting up network permissions, setting up printers,
Cloud Security Alliance endorses AICPA SOC report
The AICPA’s framework for assessing the reliability of a cloud provider’s technology and systems controls has won the endorsement of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit coalition with members including Google, Microsoft, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, and PwC. The AICPA is a CSA affiliate member. In a position paper released
Cybersecurity: 2013 is already “the year of the hack”
Many organizations are unprepared to protect themselves against an emerging, relentless cybersecurity danger that threatens national security and economic stability, according to a new global survey. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are not easily deterred, which makes them different from traditional threats, according to global IT association ISACA. But an ISACA
Android, Apple extend smartphone lead on Windows, BlackBerry
Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS strengthened their positions in the global smartphone operating system market in the fourth quarter of 2012 as the number of shipments grew 42% year over year, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported Thursday with the release of its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. Android smartphone vendors
Cloud adoption brings unexpected costs, KPMG survey says
Companies moving IT systems to the cloud are encountering higher costs and more implementation problems than they expected, KPMG International reports in a new survey scheduled to be released on Tuesday. About one-third of the more than 650 business and IT leaders in the global survey experienced higher-than-anticipated expenses adopting
Do I know you?
Q: All of a sudden I am unable to invite my friends to connect with me on LinkedIn unless I supply their email addresses. Yet my colleague is able to invite these same friends without supplying an email address. Can you explain what’s going on and tell me how to
Dust in the wind
Q: I heard on the news last week that it is important to clean the inside of your computer regularly, but I’ve never done this before. Is this true, and if so, how do you clean the inside of a computer without causing damage? A: Ordinarily I would not address
Removing hyperlinks in Excel
Q: I frequently copy and paste large amounts of data from the web into Excel 2010. My problem is the pasted data often contains hundreds of hyperlinks, which makes it difficult to then select those cells without triggering the hyperlinks (to avoid triggering a hyperlink, I click on a nearby
Auto-trust emailed images
Q: When I open email containing pictures or images, Outlook 2010 does not automatically display those images unless I right-click on the image and select Download Pictures. Why does Outlook 2010 do this, and is there a way to automatically display images when opening my email? A: As a security
Searching for acrobats
Q: While looking for a PDF file on the web, I tried including pdf, .pdf, and “.pdf” in my search criteria, but I still found mostly websites instead of PDF documents. Is there a way to search the web for PDF documents only? A: When searching the web using Bing
Creating hyperlinks in Excel
Q: My accounting software enables me to export my customer data to Excel, but the customers’ email addresses do not show up as clickable hyperlinks. I must edit each email address one at a time to delete the leading apostrophe to convert the text-based email address to clickable email addresses.
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