Technology

If you’re old enough to remember the “pre-laser printer days” (and the profession’s demographic says nearly 80 percent of you are), you’ll no doubt recall that old dot-matrix and line printers were often loaded with lined paper that we loving dubbed green-bar.

How you get things done is increasingly becoming as important as what you actually do, especially in a multi-service professional practice.

Even though the real estate market has slowed down (or perhaps for that very reason), the construction industry remains strong. Construction professionals, including contractors and subcontractors, continue to thrive in this tough economy

I suspect that all of you are pleased to have the 2008 tax season behind you. Whether this was the most successful season in memory or a complete disaster, now is the best time to stop and have a debriefing with your tax department and administrative staff.

Like many of the contributors from this publication and its executive editor, I spent a week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada in early January.

Each year, a number of contributors from The CPA Technology Advisor take the pilgrimage to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to scout out new and emerging technologies that could impact your firms in the near future.

Deep-Penetration, a hacker’s nom de plume, had been to this network address before and she knew it well. The system was easy to access even with the low-end firewall installed on the router.

The word innovation is bandied around quite a bit these days. Most often, it seems the word is used with personal entertainment technologies such as the latest music, camera and video functions for mobile phones, or even YouTube political debates.