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MSATP Member Benefit: Special Offer on TheTaxBook

Dear MSTAP Member, As a member of the Maryland Society of Accounting & Tax Professionals you receive 10-25% off and free shipping year-round on all products offered by TheTaxBook. TheTaxBook has four special offers to cover your tax research needs! The TTB Bundle combines all of their bestsellers. The Jacob Special combines the Deluxe Edition …
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McDaniel College: Accounting Interviewing Day 2020 is a Virtual Success

Credit: McDaniel College It may not have been the traditional in-person Interviewing Day that Accounting, Economics and Business Administration students have known in the past, but the first half of Interviewing Day 2020 was no less successful with nine accounting firms holding 84 virtual interviews with 31 McDaniel Accounting majors. The second half of Interviewing …
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How to Successfully Take an MSATP Webinar

COVID has had a lasting impact on many aspects of our lives, including the way we access continuing education as professionals. While webinars are more accessible to many, we must keep in mind how they differ from in-person seminars. Firstly, you must answer polling questions so that NASBA and the IRS are sure you are …
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#TechTips: Auto Entry

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA Greetings from the lockdown, my fellow practitioners! Today we’re going to profile an app called AutoEntry. This app provides a unique value proposition to the marketplace and demonstrates how far the cloud has come in such a short while. Yes, it’s true that certain jobs are under threat by the robots, …
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#TechTips: What’s Your Plan?

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA We need to talk. Those four little words are laden with baggage, I know. In the crush of the most insane tax season since 1913, when every thing happened at once, when nothing makes sense, when the rules change daily, when our clients are freaking out and grasping at whatever shred …
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Working From Home: The $250 Recommended Scanner

By Bob Jennings of TaxSpeaker In the same vein as with printers, in today’s technologically based office every home office and workstation must have a quality, high-speed scanner. The scanner should offer duplex scanning, instant compatibility with PDF programs, have a small desktop form factor, and last for many years. We have always used and …
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How to Use Zoom For an MSATP Webinar

How to Join: A few days prior to your webinar, you will receive an email reminder from MSATP Webinars (webinars@msatp.org). On the day of the webinar, click the link in that email to join the webinar. Chat: The in-meeting chat allows you to send messages to the host and panelists. If you have any general questions …
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3 Years of Depreciation Changes

By Bob Jennings of TaxSpeaker The questions about depreciation have become common enough that we think it is time for a central reference chart for all of us for the changes from the TCJA (9/2017), the Budget Bill (12/2019), the Families First Act (3/2020) and the CARES Act (3/2020). Depreciation changes 2018-2020 Description TCJA Effective …
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#TechTips: 2FA Scams (a.k.a SIM Card Swapping)

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA As a part of the #WFH (Work From Home) movement, security — which has always been important — must take an even higher priority. And also helping our clients stay in business, keep up with all the new federal and state rules and programs, counseling a business owner through the notion …
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#TechTips: PracticeProtect

By Jonathan Rivlin, CPA Greetings from the zombypocalypse, my fellow practitioners! In this latest installment of TechTips, we’re going to cover an app called PracticeProtect. The reason for this is that with the rise of distributive working, aka working from home (WFH), an acronym that I didn’t know existed until a couple weeks ago, there’s …
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