Gail Perry, CPA, is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor. She also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars. She is the author of over 30 books (including Mint.com For Dummies and QuickBooks 2014 On Demand), and she maintains a small tax practice. Gail is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelors degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, earned her CPA, and worked for Deloitte in the firm's Chicago tax department. She has taught college-level accounting principles and personal finance, and was on staff for 10 years at the Indiana CPA Society as a computer applications instructor. Gail was the publisher and editor-in-chief of AccountingWEB before joining the CPA Practice Advisor team.
August 20, 2018
In case you haven’t noticed, getting fed by phone is very commonplace these days. Whether you’re calling in for lunch at the office, getting home at the end of the day and feeling too exhausted to cook, requesting food for a party, making sure your ...
August 19, 2018
Change vs. Old School is something the accounting profession has had to deal with in recent years too, and while that theme isn’t new to these pages, I’d like to give it a bit of a different twist.
July 26, 2018
What is the Internet of Things? Homeowners know it as the process of adding automated, and in some cases, decision making power to devices like appliances, lights, vehicles, heating and air conditioning, and so on.
July 18, 2018
The compliance task is still a necessity, but as the recent changes in the tax code and the resulting postcard sized tax return illustrate, much can be done automatically. Fewer individuals will need to itemize and will consider doing their tax ...
June 21, 2018
Wolters Kluwer has developed a new product called CCH Axcess iQ, described as a Predictive Intelligence tool. “We know about the trends,” said McGinnis. “People are moving from compliance to advisory services, moving up the value chain and creating ...
June 20, 2018
Results of the AICPA 2017 PCPS CPA Firm Top Issues survey support the findings that accountants are striving, reaching, yearning, to be more tech savvy, frustrated that they don’t like any of the potential job candidates who come in for interviews ...
June 20, 2018
We are focusing on Artist clients in the niche practices area of this month’s magazine, and so we decided to go down the path of art creation and appreciation apps as a corollary to those articles. I like to think of Venus Paradise coloring sets as ...
May 22, 2018
My father owned his own business. He got up earlier than the sun in the morning and came home after dark every night. He worked harder than any of the dozens of employees who punched a clock in his tool & die company.
May 22, 2018
As we head into the summer months, many working parents will be searching for options to help with child care. You may have your tried and true favorites, you work from home, a responsible family member moves in for the summer, your kids are in a ...
April 17, 2018
The Urban Dictionary defines Adulting in this way: To carry out one or more of the duties and responsibilities expected of fully developed individuals (paying off that credit card debt, settling beef without blasting social media, etc).
April 16, 2018
The critics complain that the storyline isn’t true to fact, that the movie is “square” because people don’t like musicals any more, that the presentation of “human oddities” like a bearded lady, Tom Thumb, and others, is exploitive and inappropriate.
March 23, 2018
The term “thought leader” has been around since the late 1800s, which makes me really happy because I was afraid it was something that was made up in the past couple of decades, like “paradigm shift” and “think outside the box.”
