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5 Considerations for LA RIAs to Make Before Moving to the Cloud

Feb 22, 2016

As a Los Angeles based Registered Investment Advisor, there’s a good chance you spend the majority of your time guiding clients into making the right decisions and monitoring markets so that you’re always one step ahead of the competition. And one ...

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How Citrix ShareFile Can Help Your Los Angeles CPA Firm

Feb 19, 2016

File sharing is one of the best technical solutions to happen to accountancy in recent years, enabling CPA firms and their clients to share, make changes, and add amendments to documents, all online. Gone are lengthy waits while bundles of papers ...

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7 Ways for LA CPAs to Keep Their IT Rock Solid During Tax Season

Feb 15, 2016

Tax season is a crucial time of year for Los Angeles Certified Public Accountants. With the filing deadline of April 15th always looming, the time period from January through April is one where CPAs don’t have the luxury to think about anything ...

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Strong Passwords are an Easy Start towards a Strong Cyber Security Footing

Feb 12, 2016

Your cyber security is more in your control than you think. I’ve seen too many people simply get overwhelmed by the words “cyber security” that it ends up paralyzing them to the point that nothing’s done about it. So, to get you going, and as is the ...

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The Really, Really Story... | FPA Technology Services

Feb 08, 2016

So it happened. The dreaded "aha" moment for one of our clients who didn't jump when we said jump and now they're paying for it. We've been working with this client for what seems like forever trying to get them to act on the needed server ...

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Cyber Security is All About Who You Know!

Feb 05, 2016

Every year we look back and say last year was the biggest year in cyber security breaches ever! And now this year looks to be no different. The media continues to report the fallout from breaches for months. They’re so prevalent that the names are ...

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Warning: 7ev3n is the Latest Ransomware

Jan 28, 2016

7ev3n Ransomware is the latest computer infection running amuk. After it enters your system, it immediately prevents good programs from running, kills the main process explorer.exe, and locks the screen. No different from any previous ransomware, ...

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Good vs. Evil

Jan 27, 2016

In one of our early training classes here at FPA, we have a section called "Good vs. Evil". In it we explore some of the more blatant differences between how we operate (Good) vs. how many of our competitors operate (Evil). Things like - "being on ...

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Apples and Oranges: Trusted Advisor vs. Salesman

Jan 20, 2016

I've been noticing a trend lately that, at its core, can really be reduced down to why we do what we do. Unfortunately, it seems that not everyone in our industry is about being a true Trusted Advisor. To our advantage, we're "stuck" competing in ...

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5 Ways LA CPAs Should Prepare Their IT for Tax Season

Jan 15, 2016

As Tax Season approaches, every Certified Public Accountant (CPA), including those based in Los Angeles, should be drawing up their to-do-lists. And at the top of this list should be reviewing and solidifying their computer hardware and software as ...

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Is Your Data in the Cloud Really Yours?

Jan 13, 2016

As more and more companies look to the cloud to store their information, the era of being able to mindlessly click “OK” or “Agree” on the terms of usage may be over. When your information is stored on your network, you (or one of your IT minions) ...

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