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Jody Padar: Nov 19, 2020 9:00:00 AM
A few months before COVID-19 hit and turned our professional and personal lives upside down, I joined Botkeeper as VP of Strategy. For ages, I’ve been preaching the need to go digital, to get on the cloud, and to find ways to automate workload so we...
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Jody Padar: Nov 12, 2020 10:00:00 AM
Accounting firms typically grow in one of two ways. Either they grow organically and hire more staff as the need for client work grows, or they grow through mergers and acquisitions and physically become larger firms. There is a third option to growth...
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Jody Padar: Nov 5, 2020 9:30:00 AM
"Data is the new oil.” What does that even mean?!
By way of a quick history lesson, oil was the means of rapid industrialization and development in 19th century United States. Eventually, it would become the primary fuel source and helped propel the...
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Jody Padar: Oct 22, 2020 4:59:24 PM
Have you ever seen the movie How to Train Your Dragon? A young Viking boy, who has grown up fearing dragons, meets one in the wild. Over time, he develops an understanding of the creature and learns how to communicate with him, and eventually both...
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Jody Padar: Aug 3, 2020 10:45:00 AM
Recently I talked all things related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—from loan application to forgiveness—with ADP's service specialist, Erron Stark, who delivers first-class services and solutions to the accounting community nationwide.
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Jody Padar: Jul 30, 2020 10:00:00 AM
There's been a lot of energy put toward modeling our economy during the COVID-19 crisis on past events, whether it be the Great Recession or the Great Depression. Either way, those models cannot anticipate the trajectory of this virus, nor can they quell...
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Jody Padar: Jul 28, 2020 2:06:07 PM
CPA firms are looking at the future of their businesses and coming to terms with new realities; working remotely, implementing rotating schedules, and an infinite number of hybrid options are looming large on the horizon. At stake in these new operating...
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Jody Padar: Apr 15, 2020 9:45:00 AM
April 15, 2020 was not met by the collective sighs of CPAs nationwide nor the acknowledgment of arduous work done well for the nation’s millions of taxpayers. This April 15th marked an indistinguishable day amongst many of social distancing, sheltering...
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Jody Padar: Apr 9, 2020 10:30:00 AM
The world in the time of Corona is upside-down! The first thing to acknowledge is that in the next six to ten months, new legislation, new social and professional norms, and new practices in every sector will become solidified to create a new normal....
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Jody Padar: Apr 8, 2020 9:00:00 AM
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Jody Padar: Apr 6, 2020 9:00:00 AM
“What we're seeing now is unprecedented, unplanned for, uncalled for, and there was just no way to ever anticipate or prepare for it. Things are different… We have to adapt and we have to do that immediately and on the fly. We can't think about what it...