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.
August 9, 2020
From the August 2020 Issue. In the June 2020 issue, my column Do You Have a Clear Tax Vision? addressed tax software innovations in around a dozen categories. Many of you have just finished the unusual tax season of 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic extended personal tax deadline of July 15 just behind us. You...…
July 10, 2020
CAAS stands for Client Accounting and Advisory Services. It may be too late for the profession to choose to use this far better name. One of the regrets that I have from the last 35+ years of trying to help CPA firms ...
June 8, 2020
What do you think happens to your firm when you feed it the right tools and training? What is your future vision of your tax practice? Do you want to be fit and competitive, or do you prefer the alternatives?
May 12, 2020
In these challenging times of pandemics and work-at-home, tools to manage the practice, team members, and workload help. Most firms report that advisory work has currently exploded while helping clients manage cash flow, apply for SBA and PPP loans ...
April 13, 2020
Are you thinking about improving your effectiveness or efficiency? Education helps you with the big picture, and training enables you to do something better. Both proactive education and reactive training serve a purpose.
March 31, 2020
Are you thinking about improving your effectiveness or efficiency? Education helps you with the big picture, and training enables you to do something better. Both proactive education and reactive training serve a purpose.
March 29, 2020
This post summarizes the developments of the most massive stimulus bill in American history, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act will provide billions of dollars of relief to individuals, businesses, state and ...
March 10, 2020
When we look at the services offered by firms of differing sizes, smaller firms tend to produce about 80% of their revenue from tax and about 20% from Advisory and Consulting services. Larger firms tend to split their revenue as 40% from tax, 40% from ...
February 10, 2020
Most impressive at CES this year were hardware solutions to real world problems. We’ll discuss each of them, but I was particularly impressed by new generation laptops, monitors (including a second portable monitor), scanners, keyboards and mice.
December 12, 2019
From the December 2019 Issue. I my columns last year, I explored the details of various emerging technologies. For this column, I’d like to re-visit and update changes in emerging technologies for the profession. The frenzy continues around several emerging technologies, and some of the hype is starting to be true. Startups and traditional providers...…
November 18, 2019
If you are in the market to replace or add tools for your tax practice, there are several considerations. Vendors want to sell you new products, and they want you to be happy with the products you select. There are important characteristics that you ...
October 14, 2019
In the gig economy, how important is payroll? Just as much as ever! While many firms make the majority of their profits from compliance work in tax and audit, the firms providing Client Advisory Services (CAS) have discovered that payroll can be a ...
