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
Nov
08
The accountant is no longer merely a number cruncher. The opportunity, if you choose to accept it, is to be a collaborator with your clients, a partner in planning, a guiding light, a seer, if you will, who reads the future in the numbers.
Nov
01
As the election nears, the US economy is taking center stage. You may have noticed that every candidate seems to have the ability to take the same numbers and present them in such a way as to make the candidate from the other party look bad. Most candidates aren't economists, and they all seem to find ways to twist the numbers so things look good for their own platforms. But that's neither here nor there. The good news is that three-quarters of US corporate financial executives – the ones who actually work with the numbers – say economic conditions are looking up and 2013 might bring some interesting surprises.
Oct
31
Just when you thought your Halloween would be occupied with applying zombie makeup and stuffing your desk drawer with chocolate bars, you get hit with a real nightmare, at least if you happen to live in the East or have family or clients who are affected by the storm. You can count on tax accountants to see through the tricking and bring us some treats in the way of reminders about casualty losses and accounting for property damage.
Oct
30
A new guide released by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants addresses the topic of diversity in the workplace.
Oct
29
Members of Porte Brown LLC joined thousands of other Chicagoland residents in the 34th annual Ron Santo Walk to Cure Diabetes. This kind of community involvement and outreach bonds the firm members to each other as well as to the community in which they live and work.
Oct
16
Don't you wish you were in high school again? Maybe not… but wouldn't it be fun to be in a competition where you could create a television show based on the accounting profession? If you have children in high school, or if you have friends with children in high school (or if you ARE in high school), check out the AICPA's Project Innovation and start writing your script! And now that you've finished your 10/15 tax work, please take a few minutes to participate in the AccountingWEB Reader Insight Survey - your comments and answers to questions will help us hone our content so that we provide exactly what you're looking for on AccountingWEB.
Oct
15
For those of you who are fighting to beat the clock for tonight's tax extension filing deadline, keep in mind a few key points: 1) Friends in California have three extra hours for e-filing tax returns than people in the Eastern time zone; 2) As you drift off to sleep tonight, start thinking about how you can better manage not just your own time but your clients' time, so that you aren't working up to the last minute again when the spring filing deadlines come around; and 3) There is a silver lining associated with having a lousy economy.
Oct
12
This week we published a list of the top ten technology items and office trends that are in danger of making you look like a person stuck in the wrong century. For those of us who remember life before handheld (you thought I was going to say computers, right?) calculators, and as someone who took the real CPA exam when we were only allowed to bring in pencils and erasers and no calculators, I can relate to the people who are going to balk at this list.
Oct
09
I worked my way through college. Although I was pursuing a degree in journalism and English literature, there was a tax accountant inside, trying to get out. Mostly out of curiosity, I took the tax prep class that was offered at the nearby H&R Block office, and then I spent my last few months of college juggling classes with filling out tax returns at the local Sears store in the H&R Block kiosk.
Oct
09
Florida CPA firm Myers, Brettholtz & Company has found an innovative way to connect with its community. The firm offers free morning seminars geared toward nonprofit organizations. The two-hour seminars are free and open to the public. The CPA firm, located in Lee County, Florida, has teamed with the Southwest Florida Community Foundation and United Way to present the seminars, focusing on accounting practices and requirements of nonprofit organizations.
