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Isaac M. O'Bannon

Managing Editor

isaac.obannon@cpapracticeadvisor.com

Isaac M. O'Bannon is the managing editor and digital content manager for CPA Practice Advisor (www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com), drawing on two decades of experience covering the areas of professional accounting, taxation, business productivity and consumer technologies. Prior to CPA Practice Advisor, O'Bannon was a consultant at firms in San Francisco, Denver and Tulsa, serving clients that included Logitech, Polycom, Hilti, Microsoft, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering and other technology leaders. He is a U.S. Navy veteran. Email: isaac.obannon - @ - cpapracticeadvisor.com

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Accounting

Special Report Offers Overview of New FASB and IASB Revenue Recognition Model

Financial information and technology company Thomson Reuters has released a special report, An Overview of the Revised Accounting Model for Revenue Recognition, which provides useful insights for corporate management teams, shareholders, lenders, analysts, investors, regulators, and accounting firms that utilize revenue to monitor organizations' financial performance and general financial health.

Benefits

10,000 Americans Turn 65 Every Day: 5 Ways to Prepare for Retirement

About 10,000 Baby Boomers will turn 65 every day until around 2030. That's a lot of retirement parties, but it's also something that should have them thinking about what they're going to do after they leave the office for the last time.

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Income Tax

June 16 Income Tax Deadline Approaches for Expat Taxpayers

American taxpayers living abroad generally qualify for an automatic two-month extension to their federal income taxes. Well, that time's almost up. Ex-pat taxpayers are required to file their 2013 federal income tax returns, or extension requests, by Monday, June 16, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

Human Resources

Paycom Adds Push Reporting Feature

Paycom, which makes cloud-based payroll and human resources systems, has added a new Push Reporting feature to its payroll system. The feature is meant to increase the quality, speed and efficiency in which human resource executives can populate, produce and analyze employee data generated reports.

Accounting

New Learning Center Helps Firms Achieve Next Generation Success

Leaders from RootWorks, LLC have expanded the company’s continuing education programming for the accounting profession with the opening its new state-of-the-art learning center. The new facility is conveniently located in the PNC Center in Indianapolis, IN and will host an impressive roster of strategic planning workshops developed exclusively for today’s progressive accounting professional.

Accounting

IRS Says Interest Rates to Remain Unchanged for Q3

The Internal Revenue Service says that interest rates will remain the same for the third calendar quarter of this year, which begins July 1, 2014.

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Benefits

Getting Married? 10 Things to Know About Your Fiance’s Finances

You've met Mr. or Mrs. Right and fallen in love, set the date and picked out the dress, but have you talked about your finances? Before taking the vow of “for richer or poorer,” it is important to discuss your current financial situations and determine how finances will be handled during marriage.

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Small Business

2014 Innovation Awards Announced in L.A.

CPA Practice Advisor’s 11th annual Tax and Accounting Technology Innovation Awards were presented on Monday evening during a reception at the California Accounting and Business Show in Los Angeles. The big winners: Web-based and mobile tools that help firms and their small business clients streamline financial management and compliance tasks.

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Firm Management

Honoring Innovation: 2014 Awards Spotlight Mobile Technologies

Technology is rapidly advancing in our everyday lives as well as in our professional careers, but finding the solutions that have the greatest impact on productivity and, ultimately, profitability can help a firm thrive.

Income Tax

IRS Releases Spring 'Statistics of Income' Bulletin

The Internal Revenue Service has released the spring 2014 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin, which provides information on high-income individual income tax returns filed for tax year 2011.

Accounting

Thomson Reuters and Bisk to Offer Full-Day of CPE Webinars

Thomson Reuters will be offering two new, full-day tax and accounting and auditing webinars presented by Bisk CPEasy in June, July, and August.

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Benefits

Take It or Leave It? Several Factors Impact Retirement Plan Rollovers

When a worker changes jobs, what do they do with their 401(k) or other employer-based retirement savings? That's a question of increasing interest and concern to policymakers and employers alike.