Cloud and Digital are Driving Change in Professional Practice
Accounting and Finance Professionals: Cloud and Digital are Driving Change in Professional Practice Accountants and financial consultants working in public practice are experiencing a revolutionary...
View ArticleShould You Take Your Practice To The Cloud?
I’ve seen a lot of articles lately (and written more than a few myself) directed towards accounting professionals and “taking your practice online” or “taking your practice to the cloud”. At this...
View ArticleFocusing on Transformation
Focusing on Transformation In January of 2007, Network World published an article stating that “user satisfaction with software as a service (SaaS) is starting to slip, but customer interest in this...
View ArticleMSP, IT, Telecom, Channel: Convergence and the Cloud
Small and growing businesses have always relied upon various service providers and vendors to deliver the solutions required which support the business operation. Often viewed as the critical...
View ArticleBusiness Data Storage in the Cloud – Accountex Report
The term “cloud” has been applied to all sorts of online or Internet-based application models, and there are a great many approaches to developing cloud-based services and solutions. What this...
View Article‘Tis the (Filing) Season – Time for W2s and 1099 Reporting
Every year-end brings with it not just the holiday spirit, but also the underlying dread felt by small business owners – a creepy and back-of-your-neck hair-raising feeling associated with annual...
View ArticleThe nasty surprises hackers have in store for us in 2018
“Hackers are constantly finding new targets and refining the tools they use to break through cyberdefenses. The following are some significant threats to look out for this year. More huge data breaches...
View ArticleMobile IT for Contractors and Builders (for every business, actually)
The Trend Is Up For Single-Family Housing Market Even as lot and labor shortages and other supply side constraints continue to impact builders, and while the cost of building materials continues to...
View ArticleNext Generation Accountants and Businesses
Understanding the value and application of information technology is the cornerstone of building a successful “next generation” accounting or consulting practice. Professionals are finding that new...
View ArticleCloud Hosting Benefits for Business Owners and Their Accountants
The concept of running applications in the cloud is not at all new. In fact, there are literally millions of business users accessing hosted applications and cloud app services every day, and adoption...
View ArticleContrary to What You Learned in Grade School… Sharing is Bad, Okay?
There is a place and time for sharing. Share your color crayons, share your toys… share your feelings with those you love. But when it comes to business technology and infrastructure, sharing isn’t...
View ArticleBetter QuickBooks Hosting: Noobeh Cloud Solutions on Azure Help Businesses...
They said back in 1999 that the desktop was dead, but desktop software is far from gone. In fact, application hosting services for products like QuickBooks desktop editions just keeps growing in...
View ArticleHow Accounting Professionals Can Improve the Profitability of Their Existing...
Working Closer with Business Clients Accounting professionals are increasingly asked to provide more meaning behind the numbers they report on. Small business owners care about the bank balance and...
View ArticleQuickBooks changes and enhancements for 2020: My 2 Favorite Fixes and Let’s...
Accounting professionals and small businesses worldwide use QuickBooks software to manage business finances. Launching Basic and Pro versions in 2000 and increasing market share from 74% in 2004 to...
View ArticleOptimize Costs of Business IT With Cloud Hosting on Azure
Small business owners, like managers of enterprise workgroups, face daily challenges in keeping business information secure yet available to co-workers and business partners. Each type of user has a...
View ArticleThe New Not-So Normal
Millions of people are out of work. Restaurants and shops are shuttered… some permanently. Manufacturing production is largely halted, and the US economy comes to a screeching stop. “Essential”...
View ArticleFor Accounting Professionals: Private Hosted Solutions and Helping Clients...
Accounting professionals have an opportunity right now to help their business clients through the difficulties presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. With work-from-home mandates and increasingly fluid...
View ArticleStrong Passwords and MFA : It’s All About the Bots
You may have noticed that more online services are requiring strong passwords – cryptic phrases or letter combinations along with symbols and numbers – and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). The goal...
View ArticleOffice 2013 Loses Support for Commercial Office 365 Services
If you’re not on a subscription for your Office desktop applications, you may lose access to your email box and other services. Why? Because Microsoft announced that, effective October 13th, 2020,...
View ArticleUpdate your Mac to keep getting Office application updates
Microsoft’s upcoming November 2020 update has some direct impacts to users running macOS, especially if running macOS 10.31 or earlier. As of November 10, 2020, existing Microsoft 365 for Mac users...
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