February 9, 2010
Accounting Ranks High in Best/Worst Jobs for 2010
Validation is a good thing; I’ve talked about how accounting is a great profession for quite a long time – and even blogged about it when I met with the business students at Indiana University. CareerCast recently published its annual ranking of the 200 Best and Worst Jobs for 2010. Accounting came in at...…
February 1, 2010
Indiana U. Biz Students: “Not Your Father’s Accounting Firm”
I just spent the day with 200 seniors at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, one of the top business schools in the country. I have to give these students a lot of credit because they were totally engaged during an intelligent two-way dialog about today’s accounting firm. We all know there’s going...…
January 26, 2010
OCR Technology is Good for the Firm and Client
Recently, when I was scanning my e-mail, a press release from Thomson Reuters jumped out at me calling attention to its Source Document Processing Service: The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters announced today that its Source Document Processing service is off to a strong start this tax season, having already processed thousands...…
December 1, 2009
Client Accounting Online: Taking Back Control of Your Clients’ Data
Special Feature
November 5, 2009
Embrace Change? What’s the Alternative?
I saw a lot of heads nodding in agreement this morning when Jon Baron, president of Professional Software & Services, Tax & Accounting, for Thomson Reuters, asked the profession to “Forget Same-As-Last-Year; Embrace Change!” How many accountants does it take to embrace change? If you can’t count that high, then it’s too many. A bad...…
November 3, 2009
Thomson Reuters Hits Portal Milestone
The client portal is alive and well, thanks to companies such as Thomson Reuters, whose strength in numbers was once again demonstrated. The company just announced its users implemented more than 300,000 client portals with NetClient CS®. The milestone is an increase of more than 100,000 portals in 16 months. “We introduced the profession’s first...…
November 1, 2009
The Real Deal in LEADERSHIP… Applying Strategic Planning to Move Firms
Column: My Perspective
October 29, 2009
CCH Conference Delivers on SaaS Promises
The recent CCH Users’ Conference in our nation’s capital was very successful, not only for all of us who use CCH products, but for the company itself. While there are lots of vendor/user conferences, it seems the CCH Conference outdoes itself every year with great sessions, announcements and networking. Were you there? I’d like to...…
October 6, 2009
Accounting Loses 6,000 Jobs in August
This story on Trendline.com was all over the Internet late last week and over the weekend. According to the story by Rick Telberg, “the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a seasonally-adjusted decline in staffing by 6,000 positions to 928,300 in August. Coupled with downwardly revised figures since May, it represents the fourth straight month of...…
October 1, 2009
Leaders Don’t Stay in One Place for Very Long…
Technology Keeps Moving, and So Should You. The only constant in our profession is change, and there’s no denying it. Improvements in technology, new mandates and acquisitions seem to happen every day. And if you don’t keep up, you can quickly be left behind.
Contributors
Amy Vetter
CPA, CITP, CGMA
Becky Livingston
Accounting & AI Marketing Consultant
Brian Tankersley
CPA, CITP, CGMA
Garrett Wagner
CPA, CITP, CEO and Founder of C3 Evolution Group
Jim Boomer
CPA, CITP, CEO
Ken Berry, JD
CPA Practice Advisor Tax Correspondent
Kristy Short, Ed.D.
Accounting Content Specialist
Mary Girsch-Bock
Contributing Writer
Randy Johnston
MCS, MCP
Roman Kepczyk
CPA, CITP, CGMA
