Randy Johnston has been an entrepreneur, technologist, and teacher for most of his career. He has helped start and run many businesses, and founded Network Management Group, Inc. and owns half of K2 Enterprises. He has written for accounting and technology publications for four decades, and for CPA Practice Advisor since 2000.
September 6, 2021
It is nice to see the last few stressful years fade in the rearview mirror. With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), handling the pandemic, PPP, PPP2, and the changes in tax deadlines, most practitioners report that these years have been among the ...
July 31, 2021
Pundits in the profession continue to promote the thinking that audit and tax compliance are gone and that your firm needs to pick a new service line to survive. But, did you look at your firm’s financial success last year? And the year before that?
July 7, 2021
Few topics are as near and dear to me as Client Advisory Services. Those of you who have followed both my teaching career around the world for decades, and this column for almost 20 years, know that I’ve tried to bring you the latest in software and ...
June 9, 2021
The technology tools available to assist in this area led me to prepare my first estate plan. When I ran my first personal financial planning models and estate plans in the Kettley Publishing and Back Room Technician, now Advisys solutions with over ...
May 13, 2021
From the May 2021 Issue. Has your practice evolved to a new way of working, or are you doing things pretty much as you did a decade or more ago? Through the years, I have tried to show you a safe way to upgrade your practice tools with technology while still serving your client well...…
April 1, 2021
From the April 2021 Issue. When did collaboration become a “must have?” While many milestone releases of products could be shown as the starting line, working simultaneously together on the same file is an attitude. It is different this decade than it was at any time before. While I still despise getting large documents via...…
March 15, 2021
Effective Document Exchange, gathering, management, and distribution with clients is a significant friction point for many firms. Possibly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, client collaboration, workflow, and document management systems (DMS) came to ...
February 5, 2021
Although none of us know the future, I believe we now have the opportunity to create it.
November 23, 2020
Vision for the future comes from a variety of sources. Clear vision and sources of inspiration can come from colleagues, friends, quiet time, struggling with an issue, conflict, relaxing on the beach or vacation, meditation or attending a religious ...
November 3, 2020
During the last half of this year alone, we've seen outages from Microsoft, Wolters Kluwer, Intuit, and many other applications that are critical for our profession. Are they only ones? Certainly not! If we look back two years, the list becomes onerous.
October 6, 2020
2020 has been such an unusual year that I did not expect to have such a pleasant Labor Day weekend. After spending one on one time with my oldest daughter, we reaffirmed something that many of you may mistakenly take for granted.
September 8, 2020
The more this year of clear vision has progressed, the more it has been blurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, frantic reactive thinking, and desperation. However, some firms have continued to look to the future, and have been proactive at choosing their ...
