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The DATA Act lives, and thank God for that. Given Washington's taste for the scandalous recently, we could all use a little more government transparency in our lives. If you recall, we're talking about the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act. First introduced in 2011, the original bill would have standardized the ways in which federal spending information is reported. It also would have created an accurate and searchable online database that would have let all Americans see how their...

Google Glass is here, and the early reviews are … well, harsh. * "If the developer version is at all an accurate representation of what Glass will look like as a finished product, it's going to fail," writes Brian Ford for Read Write Web.   * "After reading all the reviews, and talking to people who actually wore Glass, I just see a product plagued by bugs, and of questionable use," writes Jay Yarow for Business Insider.   * "As the shine wears off the first sparkling new...

After more than six years of writing for this blog, here's what I've noticed: The conversation among CPAs has gone well beyond technical issues. Today's CPAs need to know how to collaborate, connect, innovate and inspire. Tom Hood and I have been examining those issues ever since we launched CPA Success in 2007. Now, as a thank-you and brief value-add to our readers, we've compiled some of the best lessons and stories from the blog into a new e-book, Look, Lead, Love, Learn: Four Steps to Better...

"All politics is local." -- Tip O'Neill  The MACPA has joined the AICPA and our colleagues in the state CPA societies in making our voices heard in Congress. Pictured is MACPA Chair Anoop Mehta, Past-Chair Allen DeLeon, and Secretary Treasurer Marianella Del Pino Rivera on the Hill at last year's AICPA Council meeting. We will be focused on six major issues: 1. Advocating changes needed from the "tax season from hell." * Advocating for passage of the Mobile Workforce...

Imagine the scene: It's 1997. Apple has been hemorrhaging money, and the company's formerly exiled founder, Steve Jobs, is back in charge of a company that's seemingly bleeding to death. He says this at an informal staff meeting:   "So what?" you CPAs are saying. Here's what, Tom Hood retorts: Substitute "boxes" with "taxes" and see if that passage doesn't ring true. It'd better. That unwavering focus on passion, after all, what separates great leaders from everyone else. That message was...