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Take a Section 179 Software Tax Deduction in 2013

A software tax deduction afforded by IRC Section 179 has been enhanced for 2013. Remember Section 179 this year and get your new software tax deduction if you purchase additional applications before year’s end.   This little enhancement of the IRC is a great tax advantage presently available for small business owners. Section 179 doesn’t increase…

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QuickBooks Cloud Backup, Best Practices!

[Editor’s note: Best practices advice from a real pro:  All Cloud customers using QuickBooks should avoid the risk of a problematic bloated TLG file by running an occasional manual backup and verification. Los Altos CPA and accounting technologist Victoria Cameron provides a good tutorial just added to Cloud9’s support Knowledge Base.  Sure we spoil you…

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Cloud Computing Advantages: A New Infographic

Click for full infographic SMB cloud computing advantages are changing the landscape of the entire IT channel, and resellers and VARs must act quickly to ensure they are not left in a cold cloud of dust. Just consider some of the nuggets in this great infographic via Technology News Hub. At least half of the…

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Surprising Small Business Statistics Infographic

Click for infographic Small business statistics infographic – How many small businesses are there in America? How many of them are the smallest businesses of just one or two employees? How many new small businesses are started every month? What is the annual revenue of small businesses? What are the fastest growing categories of small…

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Cloud9 Named to INC 500|5000 Ranks!

Cloud9 Real Time has been recognized as one of America’s  fastest growing private technology companies by Inc. in the magazine’s 32nd annual awards. Started in 1982, the INC-500|5000 is a prestigious list of the nation’s most successful private companies and has become a hallmark of entrepreneurial success. Cloud9 Real Time President/CEO, Robert J. Chandler commented, “It’s…

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Accountants Confidence Index Still Growing Stronger

The Accounting Today Accountants Confidence Index ACI 2013 maintained a positive trajectory from May-June, with anticipations of short and mid-term growth. The ACI, created in partnership with outsource payroll giant ADP, is an economic evaluation, adjusted every 30 days, that conflates the insights of CPAs polled into the strength and prospects of businesses in the U.S.…

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The New Age of Paperless Document Management

What professional practice managers & business owners need to know about making a move to paperless document management. In the mid-70s, an article at BusinessWeek trumpeted the coming age of a “paperless document management.”  Since then, digital tech and cloud computing have together transformed SMBs by supplanting physical paper with electronic communications and digitized data. The…

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Best Cloud Computing Quotes, Wake Up Everyone!

Joe McKendrick, a contributor to Forbes’ Tech Blog, found a handful of inspiring cloud computing quotes from tech’s most compelling visionaries. While much has been written about the Cloud in recent times — both positive and negative, as well as relatively neutral, occasionally during cloud tech’s meteoric rise, there have been some real cloud computing quotes gems, adroitly…

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Debuting a New, Safer, Seamless & Simpler Cloud

A Newer, Safer, Seamless & Simpler Cloud Computing Experience for Practice Firms Cloud9 Real Time is bringing dynamic Cloud solutions to the 2013 Winning is Everything conference January 16-18, 2013 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada. Winning is Everything is the Practice Management event of the year, providing forward-thinking accounting firms with a global vantage…

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Infographic: Goodbye to Office Toolus Extinctus

A new study, survey-ed more than 7,000 professionals worldwide … … and queried which tech and trends are likely not be seen by the year 2017. 1000s of business and practice managers agreed they could likely soon see such office tool staples  as the tape recorder, fax machine, and Rolodex at science exhibits alongside petrified…

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