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Accountants Must Lead Businesses to Success
- Thursday, 11 February 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by Rene Lacerte
Accountants inhabit a unique position in the business world. They see data from a multitude of clients and can spy trends before others do. In Silicon Valley, I've heard numerous stories where an accountant saw busineses struggling to get funded and recommended that other clients tighten the belt as well. Those that controlled or reduced spend survived. Business clients that ignored the advice didn't.
Read more...TaxAct Opens Resource Center
- Tuesday, 09 February 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
TaxAct has launched TaxAct BizAdvance, which features online tools and information for starting, growing and managing a business. BizAdvance provides information via articles that are offered by partner companies that address the small business market and links to those companies—Biz2Credit, BluePay, MyCorporation and Webiquity.
Read more...Maximizing the Potential of Busy Season
- Monday, 08 February 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by Ira S. Rosenbloom
Busy Season brings with it tremendous opportunities to generate improvements for your firm, your clients, staff and associates. It is called Busy Season for good reason: the issue is, are you busy with the right things both strategically and procedurally? Here are suggestions on some areas of strategic focus that will yield improvements that all will welcome:
Read more...XCM Names Chief Marketing Officer
- Friday, 05 February 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
XCM Solutions, which makes online workflow management software, has hired Sue Nolan as chief marketing officer, a new position for the Quincy, Mass.-based company. Nolan's career included eight years with CCH where she was VP of cross market solutions from March 2009 through May 2013.
Mackintosh Joins Trintech
- Wednesday, 03 February 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by Bob Scott
Teresa Mackintosh, who had an almost 20-year career in the tax and accounting software business, has become CEO of Trintech. Based in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, area, Trintech markets cloud-based applications that manage the record-to-report process.
COO Named for SiempreTax+
- Monday, 25 January 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Liberty Tax has named Laura Contreras Rowe as COO of its SiempreTax+ business, which is designed to provide tax preparation and other services to the Hispanic market. While Liberty, which operates a franchised store chain for tax preparation, announced her hiring in the last week, Contreras Rowe has been on the job since August.
Top 10 Radical CPA Predictions for 2016
- Monday, 25 January 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by Jody Padar
As we delve deeper into 2016, I thought I'd share my radical predictions. Here goes:
10) Cloud Technology is going to get more advanced. There will be more players in the space as I have already seen some of their heads pop up. New business owners and next generation customers will continue to embrace and expect it.
Read more...Disruption, Outcome Leaders: Thoughts for 2016
- Wednesday, 20 January 2016
- Running a Firm
- Written by Martin Bissett
We're only 19 days into the new year and already my clients (accounting firms) have provided the following insights for me. 1. Being a 'thought leader' isn't a term that brings clients the results they need in their practices. Being an 'outcome leader' does.
Read more...Burgum Running for N.D. Governorship
- Monday, 18 January 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Doug Burgum, an executive with the former Great Plains Software and later Microsoft, is seeking the Republican nomination to be governor of North Dakota. News wire stories say Burgum doubts he will win the endorsement from party at its convention but will run in the primary in June.
Abila Names Client Services Executive
- Monday, 11 January 2016
- People & Moves
- Written by The Progressive Accountant
Nonprofit software vendor Abila has named Bethany Little as VP of client services. She joins the Austin, Texas-based company after serving from May 2014 as VP of customer success at HotSchedules. Little was employed at the former Convio from March 2007 until its acquisition by Blackbaud.
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