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Is True Small Business Cloud Computing Really Cost Feasible?

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Is The Price Of The Cloud Still Out Of Reach For Most Small Businesses and Professional Practices? In his recent article on Forbes, small biz tech blogger Gene Marks contends that, for most small businesses, the most cost effective way to run their business IT is locally and not in the cloud.  The contention (somehow) is…

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Innovation creativity reign supreme at Intuit

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Cloud9 is proud to be an Intuit .“Authorized Innovator”.(and Commercial Host) Of all the hundreds of applications and software makers that Cloud9 Real Time facilitates with its array of dynamic private cloud solutions, none is more indicative of our own surprising success than Intuit. Suddenly Intuit is being acknowledged everywhere, from FORTUNE’S 100 best places to work…

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Automating the Tax Preparation Workload

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Cloud9 Real Time and SurePrep® have teamed to offer a series of free webinars for accountants and tax preparers This featured new 3-Part webinar series is aimed to educate accountants and tax preparers on moving to paperless, the cloud and automating the tax preparation process. Cloud9 Real Time and SurePrep®, the creators of 1040SCAN tax document automation technology,…

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SmartVault Accounting for Professionals on Cloud9

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As a SmartVault accounting professional, you understand the value cloud services can bring to your practice –  – helping you boost efficiency and drive more profitability into your business. But how do you take the next step in making it happen for your firm? Simple, SmartVault accounting. See also – Cloud9 Featured Partner: SmartVault Look across…

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Key Financial Managers Predict Big Benefits from Cloud Computing

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CFOs Weigh In on Cloud Computing Benefits* The majority of key financial managers in North America predict that Cloud computing will reduce costs and help their companies profit in the near future, according to a new survey – The Business Value of Cloud Reporting: A Survey of Senior Finance Executives. – Download free report at CFO Magazine –…

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MSP Alliance: Just How Secure Is Your Cloud?

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How Do You Know Your Managed Services Provider Cloud Computing Services Company is Secure? Did you know that there is more regulation, continuing education and oversight for someone giving tattoos than for a company providing critical cloud computing services for your accounting, law, or other small business?  Cloud computing is completely self-regulated which means that…

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Taking Dead Aim at Billable Hours

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Is the ‘billable hour’ falling out of fashion? The results from a new research poll from City University London indicates that the ‘tyranny of billable hours‘ in professional service practices leads to over-charging clients, overworking junior team members, and neglect of important client strategic issues.  The study was carried out jointly by Professor Andre Spicer,…

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Cloud Accounting and Accounting Clouds are Here to Stay

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The AICPA recently published a guidebook for implementing an accounting cloud web-driven practice, covering everything from hardware and Web bandwidth to scanning and transferring software to cloud accounting.   And at Cloud9 CEO Robert Chandler wrote “THE Book” on CPA practice cloud accounting and the private accounting cloud for professional practice and small businesses in general –…

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Accounting Data Online: Who Owns What Where?

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Accountants and Clients Online: Who Owns What Data? Joanie Mann Accounting Technologist Joanie Mann is an acknowledged expert in the areas of private cloud enablement and ASP SaaS accounting technologies.  She blogs at Cooper-Mann Group and Bookkeeping in Bunny Slippers While mobile smart device support and remote access to applications and data is becoming a…

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Welcome to the New Era of SMALL CPA Practices

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Is it a new golden age of  ‘small’ CPA firms? Everyone is taking note of the consolidation of the CPA profession into megafirms as we see major mergers of equals (e.g. Reznick-Cohn, Clifton-Larson). The AICPA showed a decrease in the number CPA firms over the past five years from 47,000 to 43,000. See also – 21st…

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