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K2 Tech Update

Your Accounting and Finance Technology Update 

November 2013
In This Issue
2014 CPE & Ski Conference Nearing
End Of Year Travel News And Tips
It Pays To Be Social With K2 Enterprises
TRAVERSE 10.5 Certified For Avalara's Sales Tax Automation Solution
Accounting Power Is The New Name For AccountantsWorld's Accounting Relief
2014 Technology Conference Survey Coming Soon
K2 Enterprises Webinars
K2 Connections
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In this month's K2 Tech Update, our feature articles discuss the upcoming 2014 CPE & Ski Conference in January and Year End Travel News and Tips.
  
Our News section reports on how It Pays to be Social With K2 Enterprises, TRAVERSE 10.5 is Certified for Avalara's Sales Tax Automation Solution, Accounting Power is the New Name for AccountantsWorld's Accounting Relief and K2 Enterprises 2014 Technology Conference Survey is Coming Soon.  Also, be sure to review the K2 Webinar Schedule.
  
Learn some great Technology Tips by reading the articles or watching our YouTube channel that cover: Comparing Two Workbooks with Excel 2013's Compare Files Feature, Grouping PivotTable Data Into Fiscal Quarters And Years, and Naming Tile Groups On The Windows 8 Start Screen. 
  
Finally, this month's Course Highlights include: QuickBooks Advanced Features, Tools, and Techniques, and Paperless Office. 
  
2014 CPE & Ski Conference Nearing

January 13 - 15, 2014 - Breckenridge, Colorado

 

Held at the Beaver Run Resort and Conference Center in Breckenridge, Colorado, K2 Enterprises' 2014 CPE & Ski Conference is approaching rapidly and if you have not yet signed up, you may want to consider doing so soon. Beaver Run is a premier ski-in, ski-out facility at the base of Peak 9 and provides quick and ready access to all types of terrain on Breckenridge's legendary peaks. In addition to Breckenridge's world-class skiing, conference participants have the opportunity of participating in up to six 4-hour sessions on a wide variety of today's most popular CPE topics.

 

End Of Year Travel News And Tips
I travel most heavily during the last three months of the year. My personal travel experiences, along with the shared experiences of the other members of our team, have helped to make me a more savvy traveler. With the end of year travel season starting, I decided to share some travel news and tips with you this month.  

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It Pays To Be Social With K2 Enterprises
If you are seeking to stay on top of the latest technology developments affecting accounting and financial professionals, then we have a suggestion: log in to Facebook and like the K2 Enterprises Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/K2Enterprises).  

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TRAVERSE 10.5 Certified For Avalara's Sales Tax Automaton Solution
Avalara, Inc., (www.avalara.com), a leading provider of sales tax and compliance automation services in the cloud, today announced it has certified the TRAVERSE version 10.5 connector by Open Systems, Inc., (www.osas.com). Open Systems is a leading supplier of ERP, CRM, and POS software and services.
 
Resulting from this partnership, customers now use Avalara's AvaTax capabilities from within the TRAVERSE v10.5 existing workflow to automatically calculate the final sales tax amount on every invoice. This eliminates the tedious work and complexity of calculating taxes across multiple jurisdictions and helps businesses focus on their core offering.
  
Accounting Power Is The New Name For AccountantsWorld's Accounting Relief
AccountantsWorld has announced that its award-winning cloud-based accounting solution Accounting Relief has been renamed to Accounting Power. AccountantsWorld changed the name of its flagship accounting solution to better reflect the most important and distinctive benefits it provides to accountants. According to AccountantsWorld, with Accounting Power, accountants have the ability to help their clients better manage business finances and make services more relevant to their clients' needs. 
2014 Technology Conference Survey Coming Soon
The annual K2 Enterprises Conference Survey will arrive in your inbox the week between Christmas and New Year's; we are asking you to participate in this survey and share your thoughts and opinions with your peers nationwide. 
K2 Enterprises Webinars

K2 Enterprises is pleased to offer web-based Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programs that K2 both presents and produces. With K2 controlling content development, scheduling, and delivery, you will have access to an even greater amount of award-winning CPE from the largest provider of technology-focused CPE to accounting and financial professionals in North America.

 

The December schedule includes:      

Excel PivotTables for Accountants - Part II

12/2/2013

1:00 PM EDT

5:00 PM EDT

QuickBooks - Job Costing Basics

12/3/2013

12:00 PM EDT

2:00 PM EDT

QuickBooks 2014 - New Features for Improved Productivity

12/3/2013

2:00 PM EDT

4:00 PM EDT

Selecting and Implementing a Document Management System

12/5/2013

10:00 AM EDT

12:00 PM EDT

Dashboard Reporting Tools and Techniques

12/5/2013

1:00 PM EDT

3:00 PM EDT

Which Tablet is Right for You? iPad, Android, or Windows?

12/6/2013

10:00 AM EDT

12:00 PM EDT

Small Business Cloud Accounting Shootout

12/6/2013

1:00 PM EDT

3:00 PM EDT

QuickBooks - Reconciling the Balance Sheet

12/10/2013

12:00 PM EDT

2:00 PM EDT

QuickBooks - Client Data Review

12/10/2013

2:00 PM EDT

4:00 PM EDT

Excel Macros - Easier Than You Think

12/18/2013

10:00 AM EDT

12:00 PM EDT

Excel Reporting - Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices

12/18/2013

1:00 PM EDT

3:00 PM EDT

What's New with PivotTables in Excel 2013

12/19/2013

10:00 AM EDT

12:00 PM EDT

PDF Forms - Retire the Typewriter

12/19/2013

1:00 PM EDT

3:00 PM EDT

Power View - Data Visualization Comes to Excel

12/20/2013

10:00 AM EDT

12:00 PM EDT

Consolidating Data in Excel

12/20/2013

1:00 PM EDT

3:00 PM EDT

Cloud Security Essentials12/27/201310:00 AM EDT12:00 PM EDT
Mobile Office Essentials: Hardware and Software for the Virtual Office12/27/20131:00 PM EDT
3:00 PM EDT

iPad - An Effective Business Tool

12/30/2013

9:00 AM EDT

1:00 PM EDT

Excel Best Unknown Features for Accountants

12/30/2013

1:00 PM EDT

5:00 PM EDT

    

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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,
 
The K2 Team 
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Continuing Professional Education for Accountants and Financial Professionals
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