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K2 Tech Update
Your Accounting and Finance Technology Update
June 2012 |
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 Greetings! | |
In this month's Tech Update, we discuss Ensuring Technology ROI and Five Tips for Securing Your iPad.
You'll find three Excel tips in our K2 Tips section - Performing Fuzzy Lookups in Excel, Calculating the Principal and Interest Associated with a Single Loan Payment and Performing Iterative Calculations in Excel.
We have news about Google Acquiring Quickoffice, Results Integrating with ShareFile, K2 On Site Training and details of our CPE & Ski Conference in January 2013.
This month we spotlight the K2 courses Excel-Based Dashboards, QuickBooks for Accountants, and Cloud Computing. Don't forget to review our new webinars being offered in July. |
| Ensuring Technology ROI | |
 For many organizations, technology expenditures constitute a significant portion of the annual budget. In fact, it is common to hear of technology expenditures ranging from 5% to 10% of annual revenues. Given the magnitude of these outlays, perhaps it is wise to step back and ask one very simple question - am I receiving an adequate return on my technology investment?
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Five Tips for Securing Your iPad | |
 The iPad became available in April of 2010 and has, in just a short period, become a sizable and growing component of the business computing landscape. Many people store significant and important content on their iPads so it is readily available when they are on the go. Further, because these units connect to the Internet, many iPad users access information stored in the cloud from their devices. These abilities make the iPad a powerful tool for business professionals in virtually all fields. They, however, open the door for security issues that are very real and problematic.
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| Google Acquires Quickoffice |
On June 5, Google announced that it is acquiring Quickoffice, the publisher of a widely used suite of mobile apps that provides spreadsheet, word processing, and presentation functions on a variety of devices. With over 400 million devices currently equipped with Quickoffice, virtually all analysts expect the acquisition to escalate the burgeoning rivalry between Google and Microsoft as Quickoffice apps can open and edit data files created in Microsoft Office applications.
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| Results Announces Integration with ShareFile | |
Results Software has announced integration of the ShareFile cloud-based document storage and file sharing service with its Results CRM solution. This integration enables users to send, receive, sync, and share large files with anyone, from anywhere, and using any device - all within a highly secure space.
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| K2 Makes On-Site Training Available | |
Are you looking to bring technology training to your staff? If so, K2 Enterprises can bring its market-leading content to you and your team. Working cooperatively with your state CPA organization, we offer our full curriculum of seminars to you and your team, at times and dates of your choosing.
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Plan Now for CPE & Ski 2013 | |
K2 Enterprises' annual CPE & Ski event is now set for January 7 through January 9, 2013. In a departure from prior years, CPE & Ski 2013 will be held in historic Breckenridge, Colorado at the Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center, a premier ski-in, ski-out facility at the base of Peak 9. The change in venue is designed to make CPE & Ski more accessible and affordable for participants, while retaining the ambiance and world-class skiing opportunities for which the event is known.
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| K2 Webinar Schedule for July | | To better serve the accounting community, K2 has partnered with Surgent McCoy, LLC to offer high quality web-based CPE training. This gives you the opportunity of receiving leading-edge, K2 developed and presented content, in the friendly confines of your home or office. The cost of the two-hour sessions is $79 and the cost of the four-hour sessions is $129. We are excited about this ability to provide web-based training and hope to see you on the Web.
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We hope you find this issue timely, relevant and useful. If you have topics you would like for us to cover here in the coming months, please let us know.
Sincerely,
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| Continuing Professional Education for Accountants and Financial Professionals | |
K2 Enterprises offers Seminars and Conference Sessions to Accountants and Finance Professionals throughout the United States.
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