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Adaptive Insights Launches Customer Journey Program
The new customer program is anchored by a new website that provides a broad view of the possibilities for more collaborative and comprehensive planning and then walks customers through the considerations for implementing the selected elements of their ...
Why Compliance is a CPA’s Competitive Weapon for 2018
As economies, businesses, and people progress through innovation, so must accountants adapt to the evolving role of finance. The days of the one-dimensional CPA number cruncher are long gone. Accountants are increasingly expected to master areas ...
What AI Means for the Accounting Profession: Part II
We see a number of products that are running crude AI today and vendors that are pretty far along in their use of AI. Getting products that apply to small and medium businesses are more of a challenge, but we see efforts at Intuit, Xero, BQE Core, ...
Why and How: Artificial Intelligence: Part I
One of the hot areas of emerging technology is Artificial Intelligence or AI. You know a topic is hot when products use the terminology in their name or in their marketing materials. We’ve see this done with “ease of use”, Cloud Computing, and Blockchain.
Mom-and-Pop Stores Need CPAs More Now Than Ever
Up early in the morning and working late into the evening, many shop owners are not only working on the business, they are working in the business. Consider your wardrobe; the time of day you can speak with them one-on-one without too many distractions.
No Surprise: Women Freelancers Love Independence of Digital Economy
Despite the merits that the digital economy affords women, especially as gender parity in the corporate workplace falls under scrutiny, 90 percent of India respondents and 41 percent of U.S. respondents identify transaction fees on payments as one ...
May 2018 Tax Channel
IRS Clarifies Tax Requirements for Tip Jars By Ken Berry, J.D., Tax Correspondent Do you ever leave spare change in tip jars or boxes on counters of business establishments? The tax rules for these payments are tricky. In a new Chief Counsel Advice (CCA), the IRS has clarified that cash amounts constituted tips that are […]
May 2018 Accounting & Audit Channel
5 Blockchain Tips for Accounting Firms By Isaac M. O’Bannon, Managing Editor There has been a lot of talk about how blockchain technology will disrupt the role of accounting as we know it today. In truth, disruption has already been happening through automated accounting software and other applications that help accounting firms process data faster, […]