Gail Perry - Voice of the Editor
Gail Perry is Publisher at Sift Media US, Inc. and oversees the content on the Sift websites, AccountingWEB.com and GoingConcern.com. She has been the editor-in-chief at Sift Media US since 2007, overseeing the content on AccountingWEB.
Perry is a CPA and a former senior tax accountant with Big Four firm Deloitte. She maintains a small tax practice, she is a personal finance instructor, and the author of thirty books, including Surviving Financial Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less Income (Adams Media); QuickBooks on Demand (Que); Excel 2007 Macros Made Easy (McGraw Hill); The Complete Idiot's Guide to Doing Your Income Taxes (Alpha/MacMillan); and, most recently, Mint.com for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons). In addition, she is a former columnist for the Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News daily newspapers.
Perry is a nationally recognized speaker who advises public accountants on using Internet tools to improve their accounting practices. She also taught a college-level introductory accounting class and was on staff at the Indiana CPA Society as a computer applications instructor. For five years, she was a contributing editor for Accounting Today magazine before taking over the helm at AccountingWEB.
Perry is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, passed the CPA exam (in one sitting!), and worked for Deloitte in the Chicago tax department.
Gail has been named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor magazine and the American Society of Women Accountants.
Perry is a CPA and a former senior tax accountant with Big Four firm Deloitte. She maintains a small tax practice, she is a personal finance instructor, and the author of thirty books, including Surviving Financial Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less Income (Adams Media); QuickBooks on Demand (Que); Excel 2007 Macros Made Easy (McGraw Hill); The Complete Idiot's Guide to Doing Your Income Taxes (Alpha/MacMillan); and, most recently, Mint.com for Dummies (John Wiley & Sons). In addition, she is a former columnist for the Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News daily newspapers.
Perry is a nationally recognized speaker who advises public accountants on using Internet tools to improve their accounting practices. She also taught a college-level introductory accounting class and was on staff at the Indiana CPA Society as a computer applications instructor. For five years, she was a contributing editor for Accounting Today magazine before taking over the helm at AccountingWEB.
Perry is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, passed the CPA exam (in one sitting!), and worked for Deloitte in the Chicago tax department.
Gail has been named one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Accounting by CPA Practice Advisor magazine and the American Society of Women Accountants.
Latest posts
Feb
28
This is kind of a chicken and egg thing, but a new survey from Accountemps says that over 90 percent of employers are claiming that prior work experience in a related field is either very important or somewhat important when considering which candidate to hire. This survey is geared toward getting the attention of college students, many of whom are, um, about to look for their first job.
Feb
23
Okay, so the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 extends the payroll tax reduction through 2012. Will someone please tell me how the so-called payroll tax holiday makes sense? I see our Congress concentrating on re-election and voting to keep payroll taxes artificially low for people who are among the lucky ones who still have jobs. The reduced payroll taxes remove billions of dollars from a social security program that is already struggling to position itself to handle the throngs of baby boomers who are about to drain the program.
Feb
16
Once again, the IRS has presented us with its annual list of the most frequently used tax scams, also known as the Dirty Dozen. I for one am getting pretty bored with the tax scams on this list - they hardly change at all from year to year. It's time for some creative criminals out there to come up with something new.
Feb
15
Some might feel that the practice of continuing to feed tax-deferred retirement funds such as 401(k) plans in an economy where taxes are expected to rise is a bit like buying tickets on a ship that has already sailed and then hoping they can pay extra to rent a paddle boat to try to catch up. We should take note of recent government action that is designed to charm the masses of people who are concerned about dwindling balances in retirement funds and worried about the likelihood of having enough money available to make retirement possible.
Feb
02
Amidst a certain amount of controversy, the AICPA and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants have launched a new designation for global management accountants, the CGMA (Chartered Global Management Accountant). The designation is available to members of both organizations.
Jan
31
Today is the last day of January. Where are you with your New Year's resolutions? Have you pushed them all aside, or are you on track? If you're not on track, it's time to take a few minutes (you can find myriad ways to make extra time by checking out all the wonderful time management tips we have amassed during January - Time Management month on AccountingWEB) and set out a plan for meeting your goals during the rest of the year.
Jan
26
How smart is the average investor? Inquiring minds at the SEC want to know. One of the mandates of the Dodd-Frank bill is to improve the timing, content, and format of disclosures to investors regarding financial intermediaries, investment products, and investment services. While that all seems important and even necessary, one shouldn't lose sight of the fact that there needs to be a focus on reminding investors that investing is a risk, and all the best practices in the world aren't going to change that.
Jan
19
Financial planner/advisor Michael Goodman has some advice for people who have trouble managing their time. He talked to AccountingWEB about the importance of delegating, the ability to say no, how to set goals that actually can be accomplished, and using technology to make a job easier. These sound like good ideas in theory, but, for many people, time saving techniques are difficult to master. Goodman shared helpful tips about how he puts these ideas to practical use.
Jan
16
Concordia College Accounting Professor David Albrecht, author of the blog, The Summa, has thrown down a gauntlet to all of you crazy accountants out there. Can accountants have a craic? A craic, according to the professor, via Wikipedia, is something fun or entertaining that makes for enjoyable conversation. So no, that crazy deduction you let your client take for snowboarding as a business expense, is not a craic.
Jan
13
Aside from the fact that I'm feeling a bit cloudy myself today due to a)the snow cloud that has taken up residence over my house, and b)a healthy dose of cold medicine that I took last night, it's reasonable to say that we should all be feeling cloudy these days, and in a good way. As Amy Vetter explains in her post on Taking Back Control of our Accounting Engagements, working with our clients in the Cloud gives us the opportunity to become so much more than the end-of-the-year accountant.
