Category: CPA

This article shares the key differences between accountants and CPAs. By the end, you’ll understand the basics of what it takes to become a CPA or accountant in order to make an informed decision about which will work best for your business.

The Top Thought Leader Symposium, hosted annually by CPA Practice Advisor, brings together leading consultants, vendors, and accounting firm representatives from across the country. This year, remote work, COVID policies, and staffing shortages dominated the discussions. Find out how top accounting leaders feel about those topics—and more—in my recap.

Every May and October, CPAs from across the United States gather in-person to review some of the biggest topics facing accounting and tax professionals. Get Director of Technology Strategy Roman Kepczyk’s key takeaways from the Fall session, here.

When a previously unidentified form of spear-phishing malware attack struck two CPA firms, advanced cloud security was able to thwart it. Here’s how.

Right Networks has always believed in the resilience, consistency, and measurable impact of cloud technology. And since the beginning, we’ve shared these messages with our…

Accountants: Looking for a little good business reading? Gene Marks, CPA and Right Networks expert contributor, has a few ideas. Gene is a columnist, author, and small business owner. A past columnist for both The Washington Post and The New York Times, Gene writes regularly for The Hill, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Forbes, Inc. magazine, Entrepreneur.com, The Washington Times and The Guardian.

The time is now to harness the power of today’s powerful technologies, productize client accounting and advisory services, and provide clients with all of the support they want. In our upcoming webinar (The Client Accounting and Advisory Services Playbook) Roman Kepczyk, Director of Firm Technology Strategy at Right Networks, will present several approaches and resources to support this conclusion.

With information technology eliminating most geographic boundaries, generalist firms will find it increasingly harder to compete with niche specialists who have differentiated themselves with more expertise and process efficiency, particularly those targeting CAAS (Client Accounting and Advisory Services). 

When you think of remote work, what comes to mind? For auditors and consultants, it’s working on the road at client offices, airports and hotels.  For tax managers, it’s most…

As with any strategic initiative, progress can be significantly derailed by individuals that nod their heads in agreement in public but do not adopt processes and/or quietly countermand them in…

Firms need to manage all areas of data protection, including server security, password security, system patches and even voicemail. Each of those areas of security comes with its own challenges and potential pitfalls, even though they don’t fall under IRS requirements.

‘Twas the week after deadline, and all through the firm, not a Tax Pro was working while stuck in their home.