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Gail Perry

Editor-in-Chief

Phone: 800-547-7377 x1782

Gail Perry, CPA, is the editor-in-chief of CPA Practice Advisor. She also speaks at many accounting events, trade shows, and webinars. She is the author of over 30 books (including Mint.com For Dummies and QuickBooks 2014 On Demand), and she maintains a small tax practice. Gail is a graduate of Indiana University where she earned a bachelors degree in journalism. She returned to school to study accounting at Illinois State University, earned her CPA, and worked for Deloitte in the firm's Chicago tax department. She has taught college-level accounting principles and personal finance, and was on staff for 10 years at the Indiana CPA Society as a computer applications instructor. Gail was the publisher and editor-in-chief of AccountingWEB before joining the CPA Practice Advisor team.

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Women and Accounting

This month we honor the women who are standing out among us, the Most Powerful Women in the Accounting Profession, and there are certain characteristics that make these particular women standouts among the standouts.

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#QBConnectOrBust: It's All About the Ride

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Accounting

Handicapping the Accounting Conferences

When you choose to devote time to attending a conference, I hope you approach it with the enthusiasm I felt and still feel – the opportunity to learn from the pros, improve your skills, share in spirited conversations about the accounting profession...

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Accounting

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

For people who are still on the fence about whether or not cloud-based technology can provide the best solutions for you, some of the most highly regarded technology providers in the world would like to clarify this cloud situation for you.

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Accounting

Apps We Love: Travel Tools

Whether you're traveling for business or personal, alone or with colleagues or friends or family members, domestically or internationally – we all know that getting from point A to point B can cause frustration, confusion, and disorientation. We surveyed

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Accounting

How to Get Cool Free Stuff at Accounting Conferences and Tradeshows

Often you will have an opportunity to ask questions during a walking tour presentation, and you can do so feeling more like a student in a class than someone who's worried about whether or not you'll be able to keep your credit card in your pocket.

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Automation

7 Tips for Promoting Your Sales Tax Practice

By their nature, accountants often eschew promoting themselves and their services. For years we were told it was ethically improper to promote ourselves, but in the present day, it's very common for accountants to take the lead in self-promotion.

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Firm Management

The Farm Stand Honor System

Call me naïve if you must, but I grew up in the Midwest where there's a lot of trust. We smile and say hello when we pass strangers on the street, we expect people to have good manners and are rarely disappointed, we ask each other personal questions beca

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Firm Management

Apps We Love – Mobile Career Tools for Accountants

We are covering career-related apps this month. Whether you're planning on furthering your own career, working with others as a mentor, or in a position to do some hiring, our CPA Practice Advisor community has some recommendations that will surely help y

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How to Build the Accounting Firm of the Future

If you're a film buff, you may recall the famous line in Blazing Saddles, "We don't need no stinking badges." Actually, if your film buffiness goes back further, you might remember "We don't need no badges" from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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Firm Management

Apps We Love: Small Business

Accounting firms are always looking for ways to help their small business clients, and many accounting firms are small businesses themselves. There are plenty of cool apps available to help the small business run more smoothly and effectively.