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#TechTips – Compliance Lives!

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA You know you’ve been around for a while when the stuff you were taught in school is later found to be incorrect. Case in point, Pluto is not a planet. My very educated mother just served us noodles, instead of nine pizzas. Some people take offense to this; as if Pluto, …
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Expanding or Downsizing a Practice During a Pandemic

Over the past year, practitioners have had to deal with a deadly pandemic, a flood of PPP loans from business clients along with the normal rigors of running a practice. Many of you may face the loss of business clients that will not survive the pandemic. Other practitioners, nearing retirement, may finally say “no mas” …
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News For Your Week Ahead: February 8, 2021

The Maryland Association of CPA’s Announces Appointments of Tom Hood and Jackie Brown The Maryland Association of CPAs’ Board of Directors is proud to announce that Tom Hood, CPA, CITP, CGMA, is joining the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (the Association) as executive vice president of business engagement and growth. Hood, who has served …
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Posture: Remember Being Told Sit Up Straight?

In our previous post we gave 3 tips and tricks on maintaining a healthy work-life balance while working from home. We would like to continue this week on providing further tips, as it pertains to maintaining good posture. I recall in grade school being told over and over to “sit up straight.” Now more than …
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#TechTips – The Sky is Falling!

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA It seems that the world ends at the start of each new tax season. We go to our usual cycle of continuing ed classes, which, as an aside, I have to say that seeing Bob J and Bill L go at each other over the webinars is one of the most …
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#TechTips: SurePrep & TaxCaddy, Pt II

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA Two years ago, if you can believe it (where does the time go?), we covered a series of cloud based apps in the initial cycle of this blog. We’ll now revisit some of them to see which ones work, which ones didn’t, and mark an essential truth about cloud accounting: Gone …
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Maintaining a Healthy Work-Life Balance During COVID-19

Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic many professionals have found themselves at home for an extended amount of time. Achieving a good work-life balance takes careful thought and planning to avoid increased amounts of stress and burnout in your work. Before the pandemic we found it much easier to switch off work as we would …
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Help Your Business Clients Save On More Than Just Taxes!

If 2020 taught business owners anything, it’s that keeping your expenses as low as possible is essential to thrive during tough times. Now you have the opportunity to service your business clients by more than just managing their accounting and taxes. MSATP is teaming up with a company called Viv to help your clients save …
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#TechTips: Canopy’s Mobile App

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA One consequence of the nightmare that is COVID19 has been significant progress towards the dream of a paperless office. All things considered, I could do with more paper and less virus, but that’s not up to me. Many pixels have been spilled about the need for firms to implement a secure …
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#TechTips: IRC 7216, Revisted

Code Section 7216, or as I like to refer to it, ‘the law of unintended consequences’, is always there, bubbling away beneath the surface like a slow growing tumor. Here at the MSATP, we’ve produced a seminar on this subject and have also published a series of articles in The Free State Accountant that covered …
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