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Inexpensive social media marketing in a slow economy

With money tight in a sluggish economy, firms must fine-tune their Web sites using search engine optimization (SEO) principles to take full marketing advantage of a business world where free social media is becoming increasingly popular.
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BNA Tax & Accounting launches quick tax reference application for BlackBerry

BNA Tax & Accounting has launched its first application for the BlackBerry with the creation of BNA Quick Tax Reference – an electronic version of its Quick Tax Reference Guide, which is made available annually in print to tax practitioners.
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Practice Development

Promoting your business using Facebook

Many businesses use Facebook purely as an opportunity to post link upon link. But to work as an effective business tool, online activity needs to take place as part of a dialogue, not a one-way broadcast.
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A&A

Creating financial statements in less time

Intuit Statement Writer in 2010 is equipped with improved features enabling users to present financial statements in compliance with GAAP. By using the Intuit Statement Writer you also will be able to create financial and management reports not possible within the QuickBooks Financial Software.
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A&A

Quick list of QuickBooks tips and tricks

There is a plethora of QuickBooks information on the Internet for the curious reader. AccountingWEB has compiled a sampling of tips and tricks designed to make your life a bit easier.
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AccountingWEB Life

QuickBooks Tip: Use credit memos, bill credits – not discounts

Customer Discounts (applied on the Receive Payments window) and Vendor Discounts (applied on the Pay Bills window) are effective and efficient ways to discount what your customers owe you and what you owe to your vendors.
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Tax

Accounting errors, fraud are common problems for small businesses

Experts say the difference between errors and fraud is a question of intent. When it’s your money, does it really matter?
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A&A

Intuit hosts Path to Productivity Virtual Conference July 21-22

Intuit is hosting Path to Productivity, a two-day virtual conference designed to increase accounting and tax professionals’ productivity when using Intuit’s professional line of products.
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A&A

Web site community looks to build upon its "hip quotient" with release of hip hop single

How do you change perceptions about the accounting profession? Well, if you are the folks behind The Passionate Accountant.com, you release a hip hop single and mobile phone ringtone, naturally.
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A&A

Firms must protect information with policy, action

CPAs need to have access to a lot of personal information about their clients. It's the nature of the job. But with identity theft on the rise, the question becomes: What are you doing to protect this information?
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A&A

Intuit's Mint.com, Kelley Blue Book to help consumers reach car-buying goals

Kelley Blue Book, a provider of new and used car information, recently announced an agreement with Mint.com, a free online personal finance service from Intuit Inc.
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AccountingWEB Life

Start-up company aims to simplify small business cash flow management

Two graduates from University of California-Berkley have launched what they hope will become Mint.com for small businesses.
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Technology

What CPAs need to know about Cloud security

No computing environment is completely secure. However, some environments are more secure than others.
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A&A

Five ways to go green – and save money, too

Whether your motivation is to save the planet or save some money, going green with your office IT is a smart move. After all, who doesn’t want to save a little money, especially when it’s so incredibly easy?
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Technology

Social media under the microscope

Has social media run amok, converting our personal information into a commodity?
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Tax

Push toward electronic filing continues

With a job as big as the Internal Revenue Service's, there has to be a pack of watchdogs – maybe several packs – to help the agency stay on track. That’s where Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC) comes in.
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Practice Development

Social media: How CPA firms can use Google Insight

There are many forms of social media a CPA firm can use other than Twitter or Facebook. Google Insight is one that oftentimes goes unmentioned, yet it is practical and enlightening because it reinforces traditional and easy-to-understand marketing tactics.
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Technology

Intuit uses social media during service outage

Routine maintenance exposed a hole in Intuit's online infrastructure last week. According to the company, an accidental power failure took down both primary and backup systems, which, in turn, caused disruptions to several Web sites and online services.
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Technology

Technology motivates younger generation

Prospective employers looking to recruit students need to be aware of their technology preferences and provide the tools and equipment they are accustomed to using in their personal lives, according to a study by Accenture.
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Technology

What to do when Excel won't let you insert columns

From time to time you might encounter the prompt that appears when Excel thinks you can't add additional columns or rows.
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Voice of the Editor

Even though any accounting auditor would tell you it seems like there are an awful lot of tax accountants out there, surely one-third of the country isn't made up of tax preparers, so it's rather startling news to learn that one-third of Americans like to do their taxes. Who knew?
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Gail Perry, CPA
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief, AccountingWEB
editor@accountingweb.com
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