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Doug Sleeter

Contributing Writer/Columnist

doug.sleeter@cpapracticeadvisor.com

Mr. Sleeter is the founder of The Sleeter Group, a national group of accounting software consultants who serve small and medium-sized businesses. He is the host of the Accounting Solutions Conference and the author of several books including the QuickBooks Consultant's Reference Guide, and the leading market college textbooks "QuickBooks Fundamentals and QuickBooks Complete." For more information , call 888-484-5484 or visit www.sleeter.com. Doug can also be reached at Doug.Sleeter@CPAPracticeAdvisor.com.

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Income Tax

Supreme Court to Rule on Trump Taxes Before Election

The appeal to the Supreme Court is the final bid in Trump’s long-standing crusade to shelter his tax returns from prying eyes. The lower courts have consistently ruled against the president in prior proceedings.

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Firm Management

Awesome Applications for 2016

For the 2016 awards, in addition to our traditional Awesome Applications, we’ve added a new category called the “Saavy Startup Award.” This category includes new products from younger, smaller companies that we believe will delight customers for many ...

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Firm Management

2015 Awesome Applications

The 2015 award recipients include a mixture of mature solutions with deep functions as well as several new products that show great value today and we believe will delight customers for many years to come.

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Firm Management

Redesigning Your Firm for the New World

What do SMBs want? Have you stopped to think about what small businesses really want when it comes to hiring or switching accountants? In March of 2014, we released the results of our second annual SMB study...

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Technology

How to Improve Client Communications by Channeling Your Messages

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Accountants as a Sales Channel?

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Advisory

What SMBs Want from Their Accountant – Have You Asked?

We’re in the middle of a fundamental shift – from client-centric accounting, where clients do their own bookkeeping and then send the records (often full of errors) to the tax preparer once a year – to an accountant-centric model, where accountants use cloud-based tools to provide accounting services as well as higher level consulting services. This shift is forcing the profession to reexamine the whole model of the practice.

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Accounting

Awesome Applications for 2014

The Sleeter Group's Awesome Application Awards Program is designed to recognize quality software solutions available in the SMB accounting software marketplace. Each year, we research solutions to identify and recognize the companies and products who deliver an "awesome" to their customers.

Accounting

Change Management Doesn’t Work – Change Leadership Does

So the question for you is not about how you manage, but how you lead your firm and your clients to better success. Missing from all the talk about moving to the cloud are two key questions: What is the vision, and what is the roadmap?

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Sales Tax

How to Manage Sales Tax in QuickBooks 2013

QuickBooks’ sales tax tracking features help you track the “who, what, why, where, and how much” of sales tax. The ultimate goal of QuickBooks sales tax tracking system is to properly calculate and collect sales tax and to properly report revenues tax collections, and tax payments in two two-dimensional reports called Sales Tax Revenue Summary and Sales Tax Liability.

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Accounting

What Small Businesses Want from their Accounting Professional

In January 2013, The Sleeter Group conducted some research of small and medium-sized business (SMB) owners across the US. The goal of the research was to learn about what SMBs want from their outside accounting firm.

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The Journey from the Desktop to the New World

2012 was quite a year for the “maturing” of new world technologies in small business accounting, but to be clear, the “new world” is still in the future for most firms and clients.