Webcast Series: Build a Better Firm with The Succession Institute
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Today's Features
SIX-MINUTE SURVEY: Top Business Strategies for After Busy Season
After Busy Season, which STRATEGIC ACTIVITY will be your TOP PRIORITY?
Check one to launch the survey and get the results.
b. Focus on marketing and getting new business
c. Learning from Busy Season '19
d. Investing in new technology
e. Adding, cutting, or upgrading staff
f. Adjusting pricing strategies & billing rates
g. Changing jobs or getting a promotion
i. Other
Yes, the survey should take only six minutes. (We timed it.)
And you'll be the first to get the special topline executive summary, just for participating. As always, confidentiality assured.
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SURVEY: Accountants’ Favorite Desktop PC
Strimo: New Tech for Managing Cannabis Business Performance
Could this be the new standard?
By Liz Gold
CannaBizCPA.Pro
If you’re in the cannabis industry and you’re working with cannabis clients, you've likely had your fair share of experiences with point-of-sales systems. Like all technology, some platforms work better than others and the key is to find the right system for your company’s particular needs. Often it’s a compromise or giving up a function for a feature that is more important.
MORE ON CANNABIZ: CohnReznick Goes National on Cannabis | Cannabis: Embracing Risk as a Market Advantage | John Pellitteri Takes Grassi Full Steam into the Cannabis Industry | Moving Beyond 280E: Dean Guske on the Cannabusiness
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Enter Strimo.
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How to Beat the Online Sales Tax
Is a special card the answer?
By Rick Richardson
Nobody likes to pay sales tax and until recently, most of us shopped online to avoid our local sales tax.
MORE TECH THIS WEEK: New TSA Tech Will Let You Keep Laptops, Liquids in Bags | How to Fix Coffee-Shop Wi-Fi | 5 Cybersecurity Best Practices for Small Businesses with Remote Employees | SAP’s New Blockchain Project Helps Weed Out Counterfeit Drugs | IBM’s New Quantum Computer Could Make History
Nearly one year ago, the Supreme Court ruled that out-of-state retailers must collect sales tax on internet sales.
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Jumping to Windows 10
And new processors, drives, and RAM you need.
By Roman H. Kepczyk
Quantum of Paperless
Okay, we all know that the Microsoft Windows operating system is preferred to run computers by the primary vendors to the accounting profession.
MORE: SURVEY: Have You Dumped Manual Invoices Yet? | Is It Time to Update Your Offsite Backups? | SURVEY: Who Stores CPE Certificates Digitally? | SURVEY: Digitizing Employee Evaluations | The Five Rules of Smart Tech | SURVEY: Paper Beats Electronic for Paying Bills | 2019: The Biggest Tech Changes Yet
While firms don’t place too much emphasis on the workstation operating system, one significant issue that firms can’t overlook is increasing computer memory to ensure computers function optimally with today’s multimonitor requirements and the multitude of concurrent applications your staff will be running, which can impact your Windows version decision.
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Secret Success Formula: E=fs4Uh
What do you do?
By Ed Mendlowitz
Call Me Before You Do Anything: The Art of Accounting
Einstein developed a simple formula that provided the solution to the cosmos, energy and matter. Well, by working on it long enough, with determined, focus I just developed my own formula for the solution to client financial success.
MORE: The Staffer Who Was Too Smart | Why a Break-Even Analysis Matters | How I Owned a Printing Company and Restaurant | Am I Happy? | My Boss Hated the Client
It's E=fs4Uh. And it stands for "Ed = financial security for You at a higher level."
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How to Develop a Truly Progressive NextGen Culture
Why following up is so important.
By Marc Rosenberg
The Rosenberg Practice Management Library
Earlier this year our Chicago roundtable, consisting of the most prestigious and largest local CPA firms in the Windy City, convened a conference that brought the house down. Our goal was (a) to address the #1 challenge to CPA firms today – managing all staff issues from recruiting to retention to developing NextGen leaders and (b) to bring in THE #1 authority on these issues to speak to us about state-of-the-art practices.
MORE: The Top 5 Concerns of Great Managing Partners | Partners: When To Speak Up and When To Shut Up
Jennifer Wilson was our speaker and wow, did she hit it out of the park! Jen, who leads Convergence Coaching, is regularly recognized by "Accounting Today" as one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Accounting and by "INSIDE Public Accounting" as one of the Most Recommended Consultants To CPA Firms.
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What Aspiring Accountants Need to Know
The five keys to kick-starting new careers they don't teach in college.
By Steven Sacks
When I was asked recently to address college seniors in accounting, we initially thought it would be all about technology. Instead, we talked about something else: How their real education would be learned on the job. And neither their skills in technology nor accounting would be their most important advantages.
MORE: Is Your Firm’s Culture a Magnet? | Improve Job Satisfaction or It’ll Cost Your Firm | Performing Like CRAP Can Be a Badge of Honor | 7 Steps to Take As Your Firm Grows | The Damocles Sword of Staff Retention | Five PowerPoint Rules to Live By | Can We Please Refer to Accounting as a Profession?
The students, by this time, had all the technical knowledge they would need to begin a career in either the public or private sector. So they were more interested in the evolution of the profession and the necessary human skills that would help kick-start their careers. Come to think of it, what we discussed might be as relevant to a senior partner as a newbie recruit. They are the essentials for achieving long-term success at any stage, and maybe in any line of work.
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Troubles with IRS Private Debt Collection
The IRS listed 6 risks. The GAO found 10 more.
By CPA Trendlines
Here’s a curious situation: The Internal Revenue Service of the wealthiest nation on earth, with all its power to collect taxes – be it by withholding, by a polite letter of request, by slapping somebody’s assets with a lien, by knocking on a delinquent’s door – sometimes the IRS can’t afford to collect back taxes.
MORE: What Difference Does One Word Make? | What’s the Real Impact of IRS Audits? | Tough Lessons from Tax Season | Why Shouldn’t All Tax Practitioners Need Licenses? | Data Divers Profile Taxpayer Filing Styles | Salary Survey Shows Pay for Tax Professionals | Fixing the Tax System: Accountants Sound Off | The Big Free-File Flop
When it can’t, it gives the power and privilege to a private debt collection (PDC) agency.
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SURVEY: Have You Dumped Manual Invoices Yet?
Are the majority of invoices prepared onscreen rather than completed on manual billing sheets? READ MORE →
The One Word that Changed the IRS
And why the IRS now needs a new mission statement.
By CPA Trendlines
Ten years ago, the Internal Revenue Service changed a word in its mission statement.
MORE: What’s the Real Impact of IRS Audits? | Tough Lessons from Tax Season | Why Shouldn’t All Tax Practitioners Need Licenses? | Data Divers Profile Taxpayer Filing Styles | Fixing the Tax System: Accountants Sound Off | 2 Ways the EITC Error Rate Is High | Who’d Like a Friend in the IRS?
Before: “Provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all.”
After: “Provide America’s taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the tax law with integrity and fairness to all.”
The change was made without public discussion. It just appeared: subtle and quiet but deep and disturbing.
What’s the difference? Attitude and approach. READ MORE →
SURVEY: CPAs’ Favorite Virtual Servers
Trend Watch: VMware, Citrix, and Microsoft compete for accounting firms.
Managing People: The Heart of Effective Project Management
Remember, bad clients crowd out good ones.
By Frank Stitely
The Relentless CPA
Somewhere in the period between the Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, the first accountant evolved.
MORE: Workflow for Dummies | What Goes Into a Client Project? | Value Pricers Ignore Half the Pricing Puzzle | CPAs Can’t Help You | The Agile Accountant | The Cure for Commoditization
He looked around and realized this Earth thing might become immensely profitable and set out to get capital gains treatment.
CHARTS: Tax & Accounting Among Biggest Jobs Creators in U.S.
Also: who's hiring, who's not among client business sectors.
By CPA Trendlines Research
The tax and accounting industry is adding jobs at the rate of 37,000 per year, according to the latest data available, making the profession one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S. economy.
At the top of the jobs ranking are individual and family services, computer systems design and related services, amusements, gambling, and recreation, home health care services, and warehousing and storage.
Meanwhile, if you have clients in apparel, printing and related support activities, commercial banking, department stores, electronics and appliance stores, telecommunications, sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores, the outlook is not so rosy -- They're all trimming payrolls.
