Results of a survey conducted by our sister site, AccountingWEB co.uk, and the British National B2B Centre conducted in the autumn of 2007 show that more than three-quarters of respondents held positive views of e-business, but only 8 percent of them advised clients on e-business strategies.

As public awareness and support for global environmentalism increases, technology organizations are beginning to implement green initiatives to mitigate their impact on the planet. However, altruism is just one of many motivating factors behind the green movement according to a recent study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers titled: "Technology Executive Connections: Going Green: Sustainable Growth Strategies." The strongest driver is economic.

By Lynn Sheehan Building online communities for stakeholders including employees, staff, customers, and partners to increase communication, collaboration, and learning is a crucial strategic program to attract and retain the next generation of employees. Generally, it takes a catalyst to push stakeholders to interact online—especially the over-30 crowd.

Thomson Tax & Accounting, a segment of The Thomson Corporation, has released OneSource Tax, a portal interface designed to help corporate tax departments easily access tax tools, manage workflows, and track key information."The vision behind developing the OneSource Tax platform was driven by the need to create a tool that would allow our customers to better manage their workflows through the integration and utilization of the entire Thomson Tax & Accounting portfolio of software and services for the corporate tax market," said Michael Knighton, vice president of Corporate Workflow Tools fo

With spring training on the horizon, your client may have lined up baseball tickets. Careful planning can maximize the tax benefits for the coming season.Strategy: Advise your client to take customers out to the ballpark. Besides building goodwill, the client may write off certain ticket costs plus other out-of-pocket expenses. The costs may qualify as business entertainment or a business gift. Ground rules: If a taxpayer attends a game with a customer, the cost is deductible only if the event qualifies as business entertainment.

There are numerous buzzwords floating through the world of business today, but recently it seems that wireless fidelity access has been tossed around more than others. Places like restaurants, train stations and airports, libraries, hotels, hospitals, coffee shops, bookstores, and many other public places are opening their networks to the public, either for free or for a small cost, giving laptops, Wi-Fi phones and other suitable portable devices instant access to the Internet.

Love it or hate it, modern mobile technology means we're always on demand. Sometimes you have to know when to switch off. Recent news states that some airlines are making preparations to allow the use of mobile phones in flight, signaling the end of being "uncontactable." Now no one can leave their work at the office. Of course, being able to work at will, almost anywhere and anytime, has radically changed the way we do business. But it's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, mobile communications means workers have more flexibility and can be more productive.

Internet speeds slowed for several days after three Internet cables in the Mediterranean Sea were sliced, disrupting service in the Middle East and India, but observers say major outsourcing operations adjusted to the crisis well.India has attracted a huge volume of data processing and back-office work, and the largest western businesses felt few effects, FinanceWeek reported. Infosys, for example, India's second largest business process offshoring provider, said its service was unaffected because of redundancies built into its system.