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Two Ways to Get QuickBooks in the Cloud Hosted QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online Running applications online, or "in the cloud" using today's parlance, is top priority for a lot of businesses.  It's not that these organizations have a burning desire to post their financials to the web, which Read More

Easy deployment in the cloud: What about users and applications? Businesses are migrating their systems to the cloud, it’s true.  Organizations of every size and type are taking advantage of the cost savings and flexibility introduced with cloud deployments and hosting services.  Rather than focusi Read More

The CPA for Small Business: Proactive, Responsive, and Helps Paint a Beautiful Picture I recently read an article on AccountingWeb, written by Doug Sleeter and describing the findings of a published report titled What SMBs Want from Their CPA.  The report is a summary of results from an annual stud Read More

Turning a Product or Service into a Solution: the Value Add of a Reseller There is quite a bit of chatter on the web and among IT resellers about how opportunities to serve business customers are diminishing, yet business adoption of cloud computing, managed services, and mobile technologies is gro Read More

Efficiency and Value with Cloud Accounting For some accounting professionals, the problem is finding a way to provide services that are valuable to the client, and doing it in a way that makes it profitable for the provider.  Outsourced and online accounting models are the answer, employing innovat Read More

Accounting, Technology and Small Business – The Best of 2013 from CooperMann It has been an eventful year, hasn’t it?  With the NSA lurking about collecting data, innovative new approaches to information and identity theft emerging almost daily, and complete turmoil in the IT services industry chal Read More

4 Rules of Thumb for Fiscally Fit Business Most folks who start a new business go in to it with a rather naïve belief that a good idea, product, service and/or group of people can be successful just because their idea, product, service or people are good.  Unfortunately, that isn't’t the reality of Read More

4 Rules of Thumb Regarding Workers Compensation Insurance Compliance for Employers In two previous “4 Rules of Thumb” articles, I discussed a few things that businesses can do to create the best possible environment for engaging new customers and providing quality service (4 Rules of Thumb for Busi Read More

Intuit Hosting Program Website Goes Live Intuit’s official website supporting the Authorized Host for QuickBooks program is now live.  The new site located at IntuitHostingProgram.com, provides information about Intuit’s QuickBooks hosting programs and providers, and outlines the program benefits f Read More

The question begs to be asked “how did we get here?” (with “here” being the current state of information technology and the accounting industry). There is confusion in the market; there is still significant debate as to the underlying value of Internet technologies and online application services, Read More