AICPA

AICPA and ICAEW face common issues

July 5, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Paul Stahlin, incoming AICPA chair: You ignore globalization at your peril from Rick Telberg on Vimeo. Any practitioner that is serving clients who trade on the Internet cannot be blind to the globalization of trade. I bitch on about systems that don’t handle multi-currency well for good reason. I have to juggle three currencies and [...]

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Accountants flocking to the cloud? Not yet

April 15, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Big Fat CPA conflates two things to declare: Accountants flock to the cloud. First: A report from International Data Corp. (IDC), Framingham, MA, shows cloud services jumping from $17.4 billion in 2009 to $44.2 billion by 2013. Of that, almost half is accounted for by software services, such as AICPA is touting. Big as it [...]

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What can CPA2Biz teach us?

March 22, 2010 Cloud Computing/SaaS

Last week I had a fascinating conversation with Michael Cerami, VP partner alliances at CPA2Biz. It is the commercial arm of AICPA. There is no UK equivalent even though ICAEW has monetization efforts alongside its main membership. The backdrop to our conversation was an email where they said: “What’s unique about this is the fact that [...]

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Why doesn't ICAEW have one of these?

April 16, 2009 General

There’s no avoiding the fact that life is tough right now for clients, firms and the wider commerical world. So why doesn’t the ICAEW have a prominent section providing comprehensive advice for practitioners similar to this I’ve found on the AICPA site? Apart from taking the topic by the scruff of the neck and not [...]

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Understanding IFRS: don't pay CCH's tax

April 14, 2009 General

I received this in email: Learn the ins and outs of first-time IFRS adoption and other key issues — in a timely and convenient audio seminar that you can participate in — right from your office — on Thursday, April 23rd. This practical two-hour audio seminar is the second of three IFRS sessions that highly [...]

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Feed the pig

March 23, 2009 General

Why doesn’t the ICAEW have a similar initiative to that in the US where the AICPA, the equivalent of the ICAEW has created a web presence called feedthe pig.org designed to help the American people better understand their finances. Financial literacy is seriously lacking in every income group in America. Family deficits, lack of savings [...]

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