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by Alex Vuchnich, CPA, CFE - Alex Vuchnich is the developer of Controlzkit an internal controls anaylsis tool and shares his perspective on how audit and accounting theory, technology and professional ethics interrelate to create forward thinking profitable firms.

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30
Google Spreadsheets Not Living Up to Excel, Take a Look at Google Forms
Many of our readers will be familiar with google docs or at least have used google spreadsheets to collaborate with clients or coworkers at some point. One aspect of google docs that is often overlooked is the Forms option.
Jul
06
Open Source Execs to Take on Health Care
This is a link to a story posted on CNET. A group of execs from Red Hat are developing an open source solution they believe will help solve the rising costs of healthcare.
Jul
01
Open Source More Viable With the Advent of Cloud Computing
Open source solutions like Linux have promised to provide businesses with reliable computing platforms without the high cost of ownership that comes with standard software licensing agreements.
Jun
30
Living Where You Can Get the Most for Your Dollar
CNN Money has added a cost of living calculator to their website where you can do comparisons of how far your current income would stretch in othe
Jun
26
Sleep Hacking Part 2 - Polyphasic Sleep
Last week I wrote about some of my personal experiments with sleep cycles and ways to get more effective sleep.
Jun
18
Why You Should Work in London
In many cases the hardest thing about leveraging a geoarbitrage a strategy is finding the actual opportunities. Arbitrage requires that you locate discrepancies between two separate locations or geographies.
Jun
16
Hacking Sleep Cycles
Jun
15
Introduction to Geoarbitrage
Mar
31
ePaper Video
Mar
30
Cloud Computing and the Paperless Office for CPAs

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