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The reasons to begin conversations with both current and potential clients with an emphasis on report writers are more compelling than ever, particularly as this technology has become more available and easier for small businesses to use and deploy.

Top 100 CPA firm Grassi & Co. has officially launched Grassi Technology Consultants, a new subsidiary that moves the firm further towards technology consulting and potentially larger clients, but away from reselling.

Is reality what something actually is or what people perceive it to be? Jack Welch of GE fame once said that reality is “seeing the world as it is rather than as you wish it were.”

Software partner veteran Terry Petrzelka, now a valued advisor and consultant to vendors and resellers discusses some of the trickier issues related to vendor/partner relationships, particularly when it comes to ending them as well as how to deal with discontinued product development.

The past couple of weeks have been a period where you have to ask, “what didn’t happen?” Rebranding, major financings, practice growth, practice closures; we had it all.

It’s no secret that the legal profession has been facing a host of challenges in recent years, including layoffs and consolidation at many large firms and a steep decline in enrollment at many law schools as students who graduate are confronted with astronomical debts from their student loans and grim job prospects.

Host Analytics is now offering a tool to instantly move Microsoft Excel models into a centralized, cloud environment to facilitate financial planning and reporting.

Top CPA firm ParenteBeard recently announced to its clients that it is closing its two-decade old technology practice, ParenteBeard Technology, effective this Friday, November 29.

I have always told my clients to call me before they did anything major or new financially to see if there was anything tax-wise that could be done to help them.

Privately held retailers are growing sales at an annual rate of less than 1 percent so far in 2013, the lowest annual rate since 2009, according to data from the financial information company Sageworks, indicating a slow holiday season ahead for many retailers.

People can learn new skills and either do nothing further or use it to grow.

AccountantsWorld has renamed its cloud-based accounting system Accounting Relief as Accounting Power.

Rich Stovsky, U.S. Private Company Services Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, discusses some of the main global trends that accounting firms should advise their private company clients to consider to help them build their businesses, in an interview with AccountingToday.com editor-in-chief Michael Cohn.

Accounting firms could find value in managing their clients online funding campaigns, according to Xcentric's vice president of marketing Roy Keely.

Thomson Reuters has released a Web-based analytical tool to help tax practitioners and employee benefits professionals make decisions about the Affordable Care Act for their clients and companies.

Municipal bonds typically represent an investor’s safest asset or the most conservative component of the overall investment portfolio.

By definition a pacesetter is not following a trend, they are setting an example and this year’s crop of Technology Pacesetters in the field of accounting-related software consulting are representative of where the profession is moving.

While I was working full-time early in my accounting career, I was also picking up clients that I did on the side, also known as moonlighting.

NetSuite Inc. has officially launched its ERP Consultant Certification Program, which is designed to offer professional services consultants an opportunity to validate their expertise in implementing, integrating and optimizing the product.

Intuit is now offering to connect small business users working in the new QuickBooks Online with a certified QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor from within the product.