Small Biz Owners Ignore Own Retirement

Increasingly more small business owners are uncertain about whether or when they will retire as they fail to apply their business and financial skills to their own finances. A new KeyBank survey finds that while small business owners have confidence … Continued

CPA Firms Expect Solid Gains in ’08

If you liked 2007, you’re gonna love 2008 According to IOMA’s 2008 CPA Firm Statistical Analysis Reference Handbook, about one-quarter of CPA firms are expecting revenue growth of more than 10% this year, while 44% believe revenues will rise at … Continued

What’s Bill.com? Just Watch…

This YouTube video helps explain. Rene Lacerte shows with this video how a good demo can be both entertaining and informative. You can expect a lot of vendors to start using online videos to explain their value propositions. So when … Continued

Smart Spending in a Slow Economy

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Or so Jean Caragher (left) at Capstone Marketing advises. With an economic downturn in the offing (or already here) smart CPA firm leaders are maintaining or redoubling their practice development efforts. … Continued

Rappin’ for QuickBooks

Self-confessed hypomanic Johanna Fox Turner is doing a lot of things. If we had an award for “high energy CPA” she’d get the blue ribbon. But I don’t think she’d sit still long enough to accept it. One of the … Continued

Who Are the Real Fraud Fighters?

Hint: It’s not the auditors. Chicago Graduate School of Business professors Adair Morse and Luigi Zingales and Alexander Dyck from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management studied “all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than … Continued