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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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Firm Management
Repetition and the Way of the World
How often do we start and end our days in the same fashion? Our personal groundhog days see us rising at a particular time, checking on the weather either electronically or by peeking out the window, cleaning, dressing, and ...
UPDATED: CCH eFile Outage Impacts 9/15 Filing Deadline
During the week of September 15, an outage at Wolters Kluwer CCH caused some of the efile operations to malfunction such that users were unable to upload tax returns for electronic filing in time to meet the midnight September 15 deadline.
Firm Management
Apps We Love: September 2020 – Outfitting Your Home Office
Accounting
NASBA: Is It Time for a COVID-19 CPE Break?
If you've attended an accounting conference in person, you know that there is much more to a conference than sitting in a seat, listening to speakers, and logging your CPE hours. Accounting conference events are about networking, meeting peers, sharing...
Firm Management
Apps We Love - Apps for the Pandemic - July 2020
Since the pandemic prevents us from going out anywhere, this month we decided to take a deep dive into augmented reality (AR) apps – bring the reality home to us on our phones and tablets. Video game players are comfortable in this 3-D realm, but for ...
Advisory
Long Days and Fireflies and How to Help Our Clients
July has always been my favorite month. When July begins, there’s still an endless sea of summer ahead, the days are long, the fireflies twinkle in the evening, and the air is warm.
Firm Management
3 Quick Tips to Make WFH Successful
Over the 20+ years I’ve worked from home, I have collected many techniques that might help you make it through this unusual time and even position you for a future of full time or at least part time working from home.
Advisory
Apps We Love June 2020: Apps for the New Normal
What can we expect post-pandemic? Are there apps you have discovered that are helping to define the New Normal? Are there apps that need to be created to help us continue to exist, socialize, get back to work?
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Apps We Love: May 2020 - Apps to Survive the Pandemic
What does a person or a business need during a pandemic and how can apps fill that need? We weren't sure ourselves, so we started searching. Here are the results of that search.
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Staying in Touch
If we can maintain the level of communication and information sharing that surrounds us as we make it through each day of this pandemic, continue to innovate, care, listen, empathize, and just plain muddle through together, and offer suggestions ...
Firm Management
This is Now
Perhaps our lessons to learn relate to the fragility of life, of every molecule around us, the danger in things we cannot see, the precious moments with those we love, and a new, deeper understanding of what is important, what is essential, in our lives.