March 3, 2012
The New ‘Fru’
As professionals, it is very easy to have all of our attention taken by the realities of today. The changes in tax laws. New best practices. The needs of our clients. But the reality is that we must also watch the more general trends in society and how they will affect us.
March 3, 2012
How Secure is Your Paperless Process?
Whether using an online service for general data backup and recovery purposes, or using other paperless document utilities, such as online document management systems or workflow productivity tools, there are several security issues that users should be aware of.
February 15, 2012
SmartVault Adds Plug-In for Outlook
Feature lets users stay in Outlook while securely sharing and managing files.
February 13, 2012
Three Apps for Mobile Professionals
A second software revolution taking place around us is the mobile revolution, which is changing the way we work, live, and communicate with everyone in our lives. The “app economy” is changing the way software is written, published, used, and consumed by everyone and major publishers are now direct competitors with apps from startups. Individual...…
January 16, 2012
Fishbowl and eFileCabinet Team Up to Launch Integrated Products
Users can now seamlessly integrate Fishbowl data into eFileCabinet.
January 11, 2012
GoFileRoom Receives Major Enhancements
Thomson Reuters has released several updates to its document management software GoFileRoom.
January 3, 2012
Numbers Have Moved to the Cloud… The Benefits of Online Client Accounting
The Cloud has changed the world of accounting. This concept is not new—it actually dates back to the early 1990s—but the biggest growth by accounting firms starting to take advantage of this online technology has been within the last few years.
October 28, 2011
Effective Asset Management is More than Depreciation
If you’re reading this review, then you have more than a passing interest in fixed assets … if such a thing is possible. After all, in the glamorous world of tax and accounting, few things may inspire more eye rolls from clients than talking about effective depreciation strategies and methods such as MACRS, ACRS, straight-line,…
October 3, 2011
The Mobile Gold Rush of the 2010s
Column: Putting the i in Practice You may not have noticed, but there’s [another] gold rush going on. This time it’s about “apps” and the goal, like all land grabs, is to get there first and stake your claim. As usual, I’ll first spend some time looking at history to help refine our future vision....…
September 27, 2011
How Mobile Consumer Products are Driving Innovation in the Tax & Accounting Market
Tax & Accounting thought leaders explain how consumer products are influencing the development of mobile apps for accounting firms ... and how firms need to be thinking about the use of mobile devices.
August 22, 2011
Caution In The Cloud: 5 Concerns To Consider
Over the past several months, I’ve had the chance to assess the issue of computing “in the cloud,” both in terms of the benefits and the drawbacks. So far, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. But this is a very fluid situation that will require some strong due diligence and more than a little caution. Cloud...…