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Upcoming Events
2020 Canada Members' Morning
Business Advisory Services
Grant Bloxham, CA
CEO, BStar Australia
Harold Johnson, CA
MBS Business Services
Mississauga, ON
Friday, Nov. 12
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
including Lunch
2nd at Half Off
4 Hrs PD Credit
Registration Form
Country Inn & Suites
2930 South Sheridan Way
Oakville, ON L6J 7T4
(Winston Churchil & QEW)
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Accounting Today's Growth & Profitability Summit
Las Vegas, NV Nov. 17 & 18See you there! Spots still available at $295! _____________Upcoming WebinarsXPITAX Outsourcing Thursday, Nov. 4, 1pm EST Dragon Pro Voice Recognition Nuance Nov. 16, 1pm EST Excel How To's Fred Watkin, CA Tues. Nov. 23, 1:00 pm EST Tues. Nov. 30, 1:00 pm ESTClick here for
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So You Want to Develop Business Advisory Services in Your Firm2020 Asia Pacific ConferenceFeb. 9-11, 2011Gold Coast, Queensland Australia
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 | Welcome to our Newest Members
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Alan Gutman
WGP Prof. Corp. CAs
Kemptville, ON
George Vandenberg
David Pankiewich
Vandenberg Prof. Corp
Ajax, ON
Gary Timmons
Gary G. Timmons Prof. Corp
Ottawa, ON
Jerry Silver
Silver & Goren, CAs
North York, ON
Jim Dunlop
Collins Barrow KMD LLP
London, ON
Martin Payne
MKP Professional Corp
Ottawa, ON
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| Latest 2020 Audio CD -
The Truly Paperless Accounting Firm
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This will be sent out Nov 1, 20.
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| | From Making Cabinets to Making Millions:
| How Harrison Ford Grew into a Star
Personal Growth Lessons
As a college junior, Harrison Ford decided to take a drama course in the hopes of meeting girls. Sure enough, a love affair ensued, only not of the variety Ford had envisioned. Rather than falling for a beautiful woman, he fell in love with acting.
Like so many aspiring actors before and after him, Ford traveled to Los Angeles in the hopes of launching a career in Hollywood. However, he found the industry difficult to enter. While he was hired for acting jobs, he appeared only in small, often unaccredited roles and seldom received a speaking part.
After five or six years, Harrison Ford was tired of performing in obscurity and in need of more steady income to support his family. Having ability as a craftsman, he took up carpentry. He worked as a stagehand for rock group, The Doors, and did odd jobs for many of the people he had met while acting in Los Angeles. One day, a man named George hired him to build cabinets. While making the cabinets Ford became acquainted with his customer who turned out to be movie director, George Lucas. Upon learning that Ford was an actor, Lucas gave him the opportunity to audition for a role in his upcoming film American Graffiti. Ford won the part, a prominent supporting role and his biggest performance to date.
For the entire article, and how it relates to your career as an accountant Click Here |
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Canadian Innovator | Greetings!
Halloween is just around the corner and we are ready to fill your bags with goodies.
Richard and I have spoken with a number of accountants over the past month on adding Business Advisory as one of your core services. It is interesting to note that many of you are already doing it in some fashion. The downside that many of you have pointed out to us is that one, you are not getting paid for it, two, you have no process and three, you do not have the time to commit to it.
We strongly suggest that you take a serious look at this core service as your clients want this from you. Let's address the issues:
1. Payment - Offer it as a service, provide an engagement letter
2. Process - There are a number of software applications available to get you started. I.e. Profit Driver, ProfitCents, and BStar, coming to Canada very shortly.
3. Time- How do you create more time for this service? To be competitive in this area you must allocate about twenty percent of you time to this area. The use of technology is key to creating time. Double monitors, Scanners, Cloud Technology, Voice Recognition, Outsourcing. This fall we are offering a number of free webinars on technology to improve the efficiency of your practice.
We have a new Motivational movie from Simple Truths this month, entitled
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| The Cloud Levels The Playing Field
Denise Deveau, Financial Post
October 18, 2010
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Sam Vassa says if it wasn't for cloud computing, he wouldn't be in the payroll services business. The chief executive of PaymentEvolution in Toronto, has found a way to offer small and medium-sized businesses enterprise-class services at an affordable monthly rate: an average $18 a month and free for businesses with five employees or less.
"The cloud is simply a way to let people access critical applications to run their business through a Web browser from anywhere," he says. "There is no reason small businesses can't have the same tools as larger organizations." Running servers and applications can be an expensive proposition for many businesses, he adds. "What cloud does is remove the burden of IT and maintaining applications so businesses can service clients and make money."
Cloud services can also relieve the security headaches that come with managing in-house infrastructure. "It can be more secure than having an in-house infrastructure, because cloud services are professionally managed and hosted," Mr. Vassa says, "Providers end up putting a tremendous amount of security that businesses simply couldn't afford on their own, including biometric lockdowns, fire suppression systems and full replication of data at multiple data centres."
Subscribing to PaymentEvolution cloud services has allowed Todd Trowbridge, principal at Trowbridge Professional Corp. Chartered Accountants in Toronto, to expand significantly since he and two partners founded the firm in 2002. "We decided when we started that we would take advantage of new technologies. Since then we've grown to 22 people."
While the company had in-house systems, Mr. Trowbridge says processes were somewhat primitive in the beginning.
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If your firm provides Payroll Services, you need to take at look at this company!
If your firm doesn't provide Payroll Services, you need to take at look at this company!
After seeing the article above on Cloud services and a new service that Todd Trowbridge is using, we checked out Payment Evolution and visited their offices for an in-depth demonstration of the services, their organization and their vision. We came away impressed.
PaymentEvolution provides easy to use, secure online payroll services that accounting firms can use with their clients
Their payroll services provide all the standard payroll services most firms require at a low cost to the accounting firm of $14 / month per client, regardless of the number of employees the client has. (And there is a further 10% discount for 2020 members.)
It is a cloud-based, 24/7 service with features for the accountant, the clients and the employees themselves. They use state of the art data centers and replicate your data at multiple disaster recovery sites. The sites use high encryption and safeguard the security of your data with multiple physical and software solutions. Payment Evolution exceeds government regulations for the security of your data and have a no nonsense privacy policy. Your data is yours.
We will be arranging a webinar in the next few weeks so members across the country can take an hour or so to learn about them. But if you'd like to contact them earlier, their website is
Make sure you let them know you are a 2020 member!
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| 2020 Asia Pacific Conference -
Jupiters Gold Coast, Queensland
Australia
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February 9-11, 2011
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
The focus of 2020 Asia Pacific is on Business Advisory Services. For this conference, they have put together a roster of international, experienced professionals who will lead you through a 7 step process of developing and executing a successful business advisory service in your firm. 2020 Canada Members are being offered the full 2 day seminar rate at the early-bird rate of $1495. Rooms at the luxurious Jupiters Gold Coast Hotel and Casino, south of Brisbane, are available at reduced rates. With return fares from Toronto as low as $1500 at that time of year, it makes a perfect time for an excellent learning vacation where you can bring back tried and true systems for business advisory development. |
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2020 Members have been early adopters of technology and new services. We have asked a number of technological firms to do webinars on their respective software. This is in response to the number of individuals who requested more information on voice recognition, portals, cloud computing, workflow and outsourcing, especially bookkeeping. There will also be a number of compliance oriented webinars to keep you up to date on the most recent updates in various areas plus some Excel How-to's. Take a moment and review our Professional Development Webinar offerings. Make sure you contact us to register.
We, along with a large number of our members, are also going to be off to Las Vegas for the Accounting Today Conference on November 17-18. (spots still available!!) Hope to see you there.
As always, if you have any questions or comments, please contact me at peggy.tyers@2020canada.ca .
Sincerely, Peggy Tyers 2020 Canada
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