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Thomson Tax & Accounting Revs Strong

James Smith, Thomson ReutersStrong performance in its corporate and professional segments drove growth for Thomson Reuter's Tax and Accounting business for the year ended December 31. That business recorded double-digit increases in both underlying profit and revenue while the company's high-profile financial services business continued to improve.

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Experience and Niche Building Drive Success

Mark Feinsot, CPAFor Mark Feinsot, CPA, success didn't happen overnight. In fact, it took trial and error, and even some failure, to get to where he is today.

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Block Offers Anti ID Theft Service

H&R Block is offering its customers protection against tax identity theft via an agreement with Equifax. The company says the Tax Identity Shield will provide tools and information to help clients combat ID theft, including the helping in obtaining an IRS Identity Protection PIN. However, the shield protects returns for tax year 2015, not those filed during the current season.

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SEC Says Firms Ignored Possible Fraud

Arthur De Joya, De Joya GriffithTwo audit firms and seven partners in those firms are accused of ignoring signs that an stock promoter, who allegedly hid his control of several shell companies, was engaging in fraud. The Securities and Exchange Commission has instituted a litigated administrative proceeding against John Briner, a Canada-based attorney, who had previously been suspended from practicing before the SEC with the securities registration of 20 of his purported mining companies revoked last year.

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Video Use by Firms Likely to Rise

SocialCPAsThe use of video social media sites by accounting firms will increase this year as indicated by the 2014 Social CPAs Survey. Drawing from responses by 395 participants, the survey found that 38.3 percent of respondents plan to add YouTube or Vimeo to the list of social channels they use during 2015. Google+ also showed strong potential in the online survey.

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Technology Outlook 2015: Cloudy

Roman Kepczyk, XcentricA lot of neat new electronic gadgets and devices will be introduced this week at the annual Consumer Electronic show in Las Vegas, Nev. Many will not have a direct impact on the technology at use at tax and accounting firms. Wearable devices and the new Panasonic Bread Maker with gluten-free baking mode probably are not on the buying list.

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2015 Gadgets Wish List

Did you get what you want for Christmas? Perhaps not, but this list was sent to Santa before the holiday and, well he didn't bring everything. But you may be able to take the money from your exchanges and shop for something that's truly interesting.

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T&B Goes on the Road

Mike Giardina, OfficeTools ProfessionalIt has gotten to the point that talking about business software without addressing the issues of the cloud and mobile access is like discussing peanut butter without jelly. And that applies to the time-and-billing software market, where the spread of portals and remote time entry has been important, if not for use today, for use of those moving to these tools in the near future.

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Richardson Gives Technology Outlook

Each year, Dana "Rick" Richardson provides his technology outlook to thousands of CPAs. His presentation is a staple for state CPA socities at their annual conference. In this summary of his presentation, Richardson shares his views of what's head in a wide variety of technology sectors.

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XP Support Ending. Big Deal?

David Cieslak, Arxis TechnologyMicrosoft is ending support for the Windows XP today. And with millions still using that operating system will probably find out very quickly whether dire warnings of widespread hacking come true and systems are trashed or become part of a zombie computer army. Or is this is the 2014 version of the Y2K problem, the supposed catastrophe that was supposed to happen when computers went from 1999 to 2000? And nothing much happened.

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