How Apple Is Changing Your Business

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Cloud & Mobile Technologies Drive Change in Tax and Accounting

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Cloud and mobile top the list of emerging technologies transforming the tax and accounting profession, according to a new CCH survey. “We’re now at a point where all the benefits that have been talked about from emerging technologies are here – firms using these technologies today are seeing tremendous benefits in productivity and the value they can deliver to clients,” says Kevin Robert, president and CEO for Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting, which runs CCH. Complete conference coverage: Cloud & Mobile Technologies Drive Change in Tax and Accounting  |  How Apple Is Changing Your Business  |  10 Ideas to Keep Your Firm Moving Forward  | According to professionals surveyed, [...]

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Start Your Next Tax Season in the Cloud [VIDEO]

Robert Chandler, president and CEO of Cloud 9 Real Time, a cloud service provider, says accountants should think first about going to the cloud with their tax prep applications.

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Sage North America CEO Pascal Houillon: How the Cloud Changes Everything [VIDEO]

[CLICK TO PLAY] Better, faster transactions and decisions…

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John Shaver: Business Transformation Militant [VIDEO]

This is the kind of accountant that Sage software is banking on…

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CCH Opens Platform to Connect 3rd-Party Apps

  New partner program with other software vendors supports immediate integrations. via CCH Wolters Kluwer Tax and accounting professionals now have a new way of working, integrating applications from different sources on CCH’s new “Open” Integration Platform, sharing common data and streamlining workflows easily between systems. Applications available for integration include those created by CCH, and other applications by third-party providers – and even applications developed within a firm or corporation.  

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Thank You, CPA Practice Advisor

CPA Trendlines Founder Named “Top Thought Leader.” For the second year in a row, Rick Telberg, president and CEO of Bay Street Group LLC, which publishes CPA Trendlines, has been named one of The Top 25 Thought Leaders in the tax and accounting profession by CPA Practice Advisor magazine. Telberg joins honorees Greg Anton, CPA; L. Gary Boomer, CPA.CITP; Jim Boomer, CPA.CITP; Jim Bourke, CPA.CITP,CFF; David Cieslak, CPA.CITP; Gale Crosley, CPA; Chris Frederiksen, CPA; Michelle Golden, CPF; John Higgins, CPA.CITP; Tom Hood, CPA.CITP; Randy Johnston; Roman Kepczyk, CPA.CITP; Allan Koltin, CPA; Mark Koziel, CPA; Barry Melancon, CPA; James Metzler, CPA; Edi Osborne; Rick Richardson; M. Darren Root, CPA.CITP; Gary Shamis, CPA; Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP; Doug Sleeter; Brian Tankersley, CPA.CITP; and Jennifer [...]

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Video Roundtable: Tax Season 2012 Outlook

Practitioners and experts seem to agree this coming tax season should be markedly better than last year’s. And last year, for most, was better than the year before. We caught up with a few of the best-informed people in the business at the 2011 CCH user conference. Click on this video to start the playlist:

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Why Some Firms Thrive, and Others Don’t [VIDEO]

CCH President and CEO Mike Sabbatis calls on the profession to brace for the challenges ahead by adopting “future-ready” processes today.

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CCH Rolls Out Free Tax News Phone App

iPhone and iPad users can click here; Androids here. via CCH CCH is launching a free Tax News Highlights app for iPhones, iPads and Android devices The App was spearheaded by CCH’s newly formed Agile Publishing Solutions team, a rapid development prototype team. For now, the CCH Tax News Highlights app focuses solely on the most up-to-date federal and state tax news headlines – available at the touch of a screen icon. The app has the ability to grow into a much larger information content source designed for professionals, educators and students for all relevant tax and accounting news.

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Top Tech Habits of High-Performing Firms

High performing firms continue, year after year, to experience measurable increases in productivity, by a margin of 6-to-1 over low-performing firms

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What Is Teaspiller? And Why Should CPAs Worry?

And why should accountants care?

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SevenKeys CPA Offers Strategic Planning Online Workshop for Accounting Firms

The SevenKeys to Successful CPA Firm Management, a ground-breaking and comprehensive investigation into the critical success factors for today’s accounting firm, is now offering a two-hour online workshop. Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern $289 per connection (discounted from $329 for CPA Trendlines readers) Learn More Here

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Software CFOs Expect Cloud Computing to Drive Their Industry’s Growth

Leaving the recession behind with new hiring…

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Technology Raises the Bar: Four Things Accountants Must Do to Keep Up

Principles of accounting remain unchanged, but…

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Where Are the New Clients?

And, is that the right question? The top challenge for firms is getting new clients, according to a new survey of Sage Accountants Network members. Next most frequently mentioned were tax law complexity and changes, followed by time management, keeping up with technology, and the effect of new regulations and standards.

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David Pollak to Head Sales at CPA2Biz

Creative Solutions veteran takes charge of topline growth. “David has a long successful career selling technology solutions to CPA firms,” said Erik Asgeirsson, CEO of CPA2Biz. Always an astute analyst of the business, the last time we caught up with Dave he told us that with marginal clients falling by the wayside, it may be time for accountants to rethink how they do business. At the time, he was leading sales for AccountantsWorld. “The people who are proactive and seizing new opportunities are flourishing,” he says in this interview at annual the Illinois CPA society trade show.

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