Be the Master of Your Time
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.
And speaking of helpful tips, have you been following AccountingWEB's time management tips of the day? We have amassed dozens of tips from leaders in the accounting profession and are sharing new tips with our readers each day. Watch for the tips on our site or follow our Twitter feed to learn how industry leaders manage their workdays.
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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.
