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Gail Perry

Editor-in-Chief

Phone: 800-547-7377 x1782

Gail Perry, CPA, is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor. She also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars. She is the author of over 30 books (including Mint.com For Dummies and QuickBooks 2014 On Demand), and she maintains a small tax practice. Gail is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelors degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, earned her CPA, and worked for Deloitte in the firm's Chicago tax department. She has taught college-level accounting principles and personal finance, and was on staff for 10 years at the Indiana CPA Society as a computer applications instructor. Gail was the publisher and editor-in-chief of AccountingWEB before joining the CPA Practice Advisor team.

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Firm Management

A New Outlook for Your Accounting Practice

Change vs. Old School is something the accounting profession has had to deal with in recent years too, and while that theme isn’t new to these pages, I’d like to give it a bit of a different twist.

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Accounting

Apps We Love – The Internet of Things (IoT)

What is the Internet of Things? Homeowners know it as the process of adding automated, and in some cases, decision making power to devices like appliances, lights, vehicles, heating and air conditioning, and so on.

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Advisory

Accountants as Advisors

The compliance task is still a necessity, but as the recent changes in the tax code and the resulting postcard sized tax return illustrate, much can be done automatically. Fewer individuals will need to itemize and will consider doing their tax ...

Accounting

CCH Axcess iQ: Wolters Kluwer Empowers Firms to Thrive in a World of Change

Wolters Kluwer has developed a new product called CCH Axcess iQ, described as a Predictive Intelligence tool. “We know about the trends,” said McGinnis. “People are moving from compliance to advisory services, moving up the value chain and creating ...

Accounting

The Sky Is Falling – But Don't Give Up Your Spreadsheets Just Yet

Results of the AICPA 2017 PCPS CPA Firm Top Issues survey support the findings that accountants are striving, reaching, yearning, to be more tech savvy, frustrated that they don’t like any of the potential job candidates who come in for interviews ...

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Firm Management

Apps We Love – Art

We are focusing on Artist clients in the niche practices area of this month’s magazine, and so we decided to go down the path of art creation and appreciation apps as a corollary to those articles. I like to think of Venus Paradise coloring sets as ...

Small Business

I’m Lucky to Know About Mom-and-Pop Businesses

My father owned his own business. He got up earlier than the sun in the morning and came home after dark every night. He worked harder than any of the dozens of employees who punched a clock in his tool & die company.

Small Business

Apps We Love May 2018: Parenting and Childcare Apps

As we head into the summer months, many working parents will be searching for options to help with child care. You may have your tried and true favorites, you work from home, a responsible family member moves in for the summer, your kids are in a ...

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Firm Management

Apps We Love: 21st Century Adulting

The Urban Dictionary defines Adulting in this way: To carry out one or more of the duties and responsibilities expected of fully developed individuals (paying off that credit card debt, settling beef without blasting social media, etc).

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Firm Management

Lessons I Learned from “The Greatest Showman”

The critics complain that the storyline isn’t true to fact, that the movie is “square” because people don’t like musicals any more, that the presentation of “human oddities” like a bearded lady, Tom Thumb, and others, is exploitive and inappropriate.

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Firm Management

There are Thought Leaders Among Us

The term “thought leader” has been around since the late 1800s, which makes me really happy because I was afraid it was something that was made up in the past couple of decades, like “paradigm shift” and “think outside the box.”

Firm Management

Apps We Love – Eldercare

Our niche practice focus this month is Eldercare, so the time is right to consider how technology is helping us care for our parents, grandparents, and other elderly people in our lives. We culled the CPA Practice Advisor community for recommendations ...