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How Your LA CPA Firm Benefits from Office 365

May 21, 2015

Whether you are a Los Angeles accounting firm with a staff of five or fifty, Microsoft Office 365 provides a very compelling cloud-based office productivity suite. Office 365 subscribers can choose packages that include combinations of: Hosted ...

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How LA CPAs Save Money Using Virtual Desktops

May 15, 2015

Whether you have remote full-time employees, seasonal part-time employees, or contract employees, virtual desktops can help your Los Angeles accounting firm control costs and secure corporate information assets. Do you need to hire some extra help ...

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4 Simple Ways LA CPAs Can Increase Their Tech ROI

May 05, 2015

For every technology investment your Los Angeles CPA firm makes, you want to ensure you get a decent amount of return. Technology return on investment can take many forms: Increased employee productivity Improved client service, satisfaction, and ...

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5 IT Disaster Recovery Plan Best Practices for LA CPAs

May 01, 2015

California has the unenviable ranking of second place for the top ten states most at risk for disasters. There have been seventy-nine major disasters in California since 1953 and the last major earthquake in Southern California wreaked havoc on the ...

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CPAs Select Security as the Top Technology Priority

Apr 28, 2015

According to a recent article in the Journal of Accountancy, securing their information ranks as the top priority for US and Canadian CPAs. This from a finding of the 25th Anniversary North American Top Technology Initiatives Survey released by the ...

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How LA CPAs Benefit from a Security Threat Assessment

Apr 24, 2015

As an accounting professional, you spend much of your time analyzing your clients’ fiscal stability and providing insights as to their readiness to weather the road ahead. With your expertise into the strategies which keep businesses afloat, and ...

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How LA CPAs Save Money Using Thin Clients

Apr 20, 2015

Over the past few years, businesses have worked to take advantage of virtual desktops by leveraging thin clients for many compelling reasons. Some of the benefits of this sort of client/server configuration include: Reduced desk-side support ...

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Why CPAs in LA Must Prioritize Network Penetration Testing

Apr 14, 2015

With vulnerability assessments, an expert explores a network, website, or application, and locates a certain amount of potential exposures based on a set of goals. You take some pictures, report back on what you saw, and life goes on. Network ...

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iPhone Mobile Security Tips for LA CPAs

Apr 09, 2015

Up until about a year ago, iPhone users walked around with their Apple devices, fiercely proud of how their devices never seemed to get hacked. Then out of the blue, a number of celebrities had their iCloud accounts breached. Millions of iPhone ...

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Top 4 Things CPAs in LA Can Learn from the Anthem Security Breach

Apr 03, 2015

The scale of the Anthem health insurance data security breach was historic. There were some 80 million client records which were compromised over a two month time period where Anthem’s database credentials were compromised. In some ways, it’s a ...

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How an IT Risk Assessment Keeps LA CPAs Data Safe

Mar 30, 2015

As an accounting professional, you provide your clients a great deal of advice on mitigating business risk. You help them document their successes, their failures, and assist them with preparing for unexpected financial “eventualities”. In this same ...

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