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Sage North America has introduced its Sage ACT! 2012 contact and customer manager, along with Sage ACT! Connect, which integrates with Google applications.

How would you define your personal brand? What is a personal brand?

This issue of Generational Viewpoints features two individuals from Withumsmith+Brown (www.withum.com), a multi-state firm with approximately 400 employees. Generation Yer Jack Mans, born in 1986, and Baby Boomer partner Jim Bourke, CPA, CITP, CFF, born in 1964, shared their responses to the following question: What are your thoughts about work-from-home options for CPA professionals and the benefits and/or potential issues?

PCAOB PROPOSES MANDATORY AUDITOR ROTATION

Just what are the underlying causes of some of the more pervasive and substantial audit deficiencies identified in peer reviews in recent years?

'Accounting firms are a business," said Lynette Downing, business analyst at the CPA firm of HLB Tauges Redpath, in White Bear Lake, Minn.

CPAs striking out on their own should, like any successful entrepreneur, start with a vision.

The biggest draw to joining a firm network or association is the other member firms and the expertise and geographical reach that they can provide.

With a brief three months remaining in 2011 and a high degree of uncertainty surrounding any major tax changes, practitioners have begun stepping up the annual rite of year-end planning strategies for both their individual and business clients.

In the 11 years I've held this post, I've traditionally not followed one of the older and, in my humble opinion, unexciting formats for an editor's column - previewing ad nauseum the feature content of that particular issue. I was always of the belief that if a core readership such as ours could successfully conquer one of the most grueling tests administered in any profession, they most likely could navigate a table of contents. But this month I'll make an exception, because I believe the circumstances are somewhat exceptional in that it's a meeting of the old and the new - a sort of opaque claim, which will become apparent in a minute.