It’s hard to stop hackers from gaining access to something as ethereal as an electronic signal. That’s why it has always been challenging to secure a wireless network. If yours isn’t secure, your business and its data are at great risk. Hackers may be able to monitor which sites you
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The SEC unveiled the successor to the agency’s 1980s-era EDGAR database, which will give investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds, according to an SEC news release. The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on
Price Tags on Technology: No Simple Solutions
In today’s increasingly technology-driven economy, CPA/ABVs face an arduous task in putting a price on technology-based intellectual property. Even with examples like Google’s search engine, Apple’s iPod, or Microsoft’s Windows platform, where established markets exist and discrete revenue streams can be tied to a specific technology, determining value apart from
XP’s Windows Explorer Can Provide a File Preview Like Vista’s
Here’s what it looks like in Vista—with the file listing on the left and the preview on the right: And here is what the preview function looks like in XP:
Shortcuts
Alt+F4 (in a program): Closes the window Alt+F4 (from the desktop): Opens the Windows Shutdown/ Restart dialog box Alt+Spacebar: In the active window, this brings up the corner dialog box Alt+Esc: Cycles between open windows in the order they were opened Shift+Delete: Permanently deletes an item (rather than sending it
Shade Alternating Rows of a Spreadsheet
Bonus: If you subsequently add or delete columns within that range, the color pattern will automatically adjust to the size you select. And if you replace the word ROW in the formula with COLUMN, the color scheme will be installed for every other column instead of every other row. In
Smart Stops on the Web
CONTINUING EDUCATION THE CPA TOOLBOX www.cpemarket.com This Smart Stop is part of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy’s www.nasbatools.com, which offers “tools for accountancy compliance.” CPAs can search CPE course providers, the National Registry of CPE Sponsor courses and quality assurance service courses, plus
Execs Facing Discovery Challenges
A Deloitte online poll found that two out of five executives felt data volumes in their organizations are becoming unmanageable. Almost 20% of executives said their companies are not ready to handle complex discovery requests. Their greatest concerns about document discovery included: Expensive vendor or in-house costs to go through
Introducing the New journalofaccountancy.com
FIND IT FASTThe new www.journalofaccountancy.com provides access to more than 10 years of JofA archives through a new full-text search feature, easily accessible from anywhere on the Web site—just look in the upper-right corner of every page. And by performing a single search, you’ll get results not only from the
The Firm of the Future
To a large extent, your company is being managed right now by a small coterie of long-departed theorists and practitioners who invented the rules and conventions of “modern” management back in the early years of the 20th century. Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology
Stop Excel From Displaying the Copyright Symbol (©) When You Want (c)
Let’s get back to solving your problem. In Excel 2003, access AutoCorrect by clicking on Tools, AutoCorrect Options (see screenshot below). Under the Replace text as you type heading, cursor down to (c). When you click on it, it instantly moves under Replace, bringing © along with it. You can
A Better Way
In the July issue (page 96), I suggested a technique for partially hiding numbers in a spreadsheet that you need to keep private— such as Social Security numbers. Steve Gordon, CPA, internal auditor at Northwest Natural Gas Co., Portland, Ore., pointed out a weakness in the idea. He said that
You Should Know
An article in the July issue (page 100) explained how you can not only send e-mails directly from Word and Excel, but you can also add a document or spreadsheet as an attachment. However, Connie Steinhart, CPA, treasurer at TIC International Corp. in Carmel, Ind., raises this caveat: If your
Watch What You Say…and Write
Nearly three out of 10 employers surveyed by the American Management Association and The ePolicy Institute had fired workers for e-mail misuse. The most-cited reasons included violation of company policy (64%), inappropriate or offensive language (62%), excessive personal use (26%) and breach of confidentiality rules (22%) How are employers catching
Auditing Advisory Committee Approves Recommendations
The Department of the Treasury’s Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession voted to approve a slate of more than 30 recommendations for enhancing the profession’s sustainability. The committee’s work marked the first major study of the public company auditing profession since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002. AICPA
Building an Effective Whistleblower Program
One of the most effective and inexpensive methods of monitoring the pulse of a business is to create a confidential whistleblower hotline. According to the 2008 Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud & Abuse, tips have historically been the most common means of fraud
SBA Creates Online Recovery Assistance Application
The Small Business Administration created an online application for disaster victims to apply for recovery assistance. The application is available to homeowners and renters whose home or personal property is damaged by an event declared a disaster by the president or the SBA administrator. Businesses and nonprofits can apply for
SEC Unveils Successor to EDGAR Database
The SEC unveiled the successor to the agency’s 1980s-era EDGAR database, which will give investors far faster and easier access to key financial information about public companies and mutual funds, according to an SEC news release. The new system is called IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications. Based on
Modernizing Business Reporting
The AICPA’s Assurance Services Executive Committee issued a white paper to address how transparency in financial reporting will be improved through the use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) and enhanced business reporting (EBR) that takes into account nonfinancial factors that affect a company’s value. The paper, The Shifting Paradigm in
Stop Outlook from “disappearing” when switching to the desktop
Actually, Outlook was not closed when the desktop appeared; it was only minimized. If you look on the right side of your taskbar, next to thetime, you’ll see several icons, and one of them will surely be Outlook (see screenshot above). To solve the problem, right-click on that icon, and
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