228,000 South Carolina Medicaid records transferred to private email acct – Trend Micro WFBS might have stopped that

There’s a story in the news right now about the South Carolina Medicaid program losing control over 228k records. From the versions of the story I have read, it appears that individual working there transferred these records to a private email account and then to another email account. The information includes names, Medicaid ID numbers (which are also Social Security …

Just Who is Promoting Cloud Computing Solutions? Accountants?

With more and more cloud computing / SaaS offerings becoming available to us, just who is promoting them? Hunter Richards, a Market Analyst in the field of accounting has a poll on the SoftwareAdvice.com site asking “Are accountants recommending the cloud yet?” That is a great question, unfortunately there was only a “Yes” or “No” answer. If there had been …

Intuit QuickBooks 2011 available on September 28th!

It’s that time again! Intuit is releasing their fiscal year 2011 products on Monday, September 28th. Products that have been updated include: QuickBooks Simple Start 2011 is the easiest way to track sales and expenses. All your finance information is organized in one place, so you can easily stay on top of your business and be ready for tax time. QuickBooks …