January 16, 2012
The SOPA Opera and You
As of today, the controversies over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives, and PIPA, the companion bill in the Senate, are on hold.
January 10, 2012
The 10-Step Tech Checklist
don’t want to grinch on your holiday spirit, but the sad fact is that Tax Season kicks up in less than three weeks. And chances are very good that you are not prepared. So as you are bouncing around trying to figure out what to do with yourself this week (assuming you are not on...…
January 10, 2012
“Please Change Your Password…”
There are few messages from the IT department that I dislike more than the monthly reminder to change my network password. Frankly, I would rather slam my hand in a car door ten or twelve times. It’s not that I don’t understand network security, or don’t want to keep my data secure. It’s just that...…
January 10, 2012
A Note For The Holidays
You have to take a break. Even those of us who labor each day, reviewing software, hardware and industry news to help keep you informed, must at some point pay homage to the impending holidays. Regardless of your religious belief, it will be a time of reflection, of gathering with family and friends, and of...…
January 10, 2012
Ghost In The Machine
We’ve already chronicled on these pages how the proliferation of printers is a bad idea for accounting firms from both the standpoints of effective management and cost. To these we can now add a third problem — the ability of hackers to use printers to successfully invade your network. It is especially a problem for...…
January 3, 2012
The 10-Step Tech Checklist
I don’t want to grinch on your holiday spirit, but the sad fact is that Tax Season kicks up in less than three weeks. And chances are very good that you are not prepared. So as you are bouncing around trying to figure out what to do with yourself this week (assuming you are not...…
November 10, 2011
Flop! The National Emergency Alert System Test Fails
For all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth before it happened, you may have thought that the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System was something spectacular. And it was. A spectacular failure. Some television and radio stations carried it; some did not. Some cable channels aired it, while their over-the-air counterparts failed...…
October 25, 2011
Why The Flat Tax Won’t Happen
But as much as I love the concept, I think we have to file it away with those other warm and fuzzy but ultimately unworkable ideas like world peace or men and women being able to share a bathroom.
October 19, 2011
Tech Predictions for 2012
At a global broadband policy conference in late 2011, I was asked to define the state of technology in this year. The answer came down to this: 2011 was the year that reality set in. That requires a bit of explanation, but we can begin to define it with five simple trends that emerged this…
October 18, 2011
Advertising and Accounting
Years ago, I worked for a firm whose principal partner, a man with no family or outside interests, kept us at work on Christmas Eve until after a 6pm “staff meeting” — no holiday cheer in that firm, and we secretly began to call him “Uncle Ebeneezer.” I was reminded of that when I saw...…
October 13, 2011
Time To Dump Blackberry?
For most of this week, Research In Motion has had server problems with its signature Blackberry service, frustrating users and leading to the inevitable media speculation that those users will abandon Blackberry. Poor RIM just doesn’t get any respect. In a year in which it has released a new tablet whose basic structure was advanced...…
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
