Kopis and The Move to Modern: Four Areas Every Company Should Evaluate
Many of our clients ask how they can best keep up with technology trends -- and, more importantly, take advantage of the simplified, feature-rich services that are now more [...]
IRS Scam Warning: Phishing Attacks Come Disguised as Professional Association Outreach
The IRS and its state and industry Security Summit partners warned tax practitioners to beware of phishing emails posing as state accounting and professional associations. The IRS has received [...]
Kopis: Consider These Questions for Your First Machine Learning Project
By Jonathan Fowler Senior BI Developer, Kopis “Machine Learning” has eclipsed “Big Data” as the Business Intelligence buzzword. Many available tools make it easier than ever to train, test and [...]
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As New President of U.S. Mayors, Benjamin Can Raise Profile of Columbia Columbia's Steve Benjamin has been sworn in as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where he will [...]
Kopis: Does Your Data Backlog Look Daunting? Migrate Your SQL Server to Azure to Scale Your Resources
By Ryan Geide | Senior Business Intelligence Developer, Kopis As a Structured Query Language Managed Services provider at Kopis, I regularly talk to companies about data management. When it comes [...]
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Want to Start a Small Business? Charleston is America’s Worst Place to Do That, Study Says RewardExpert, a travel and credit card rewards tracking firm, wanted to find the best [...]
IRS Celebrates Small Business Week with Targeted Tax Tools
In recognition of National Small Business Week (April 29-May 5), the IRS is highlighting its resources that help small business owners and the self-employed understand and meet their tax obligations, [...]
IRS Nationwide Tax Forums Will Visit Atlanta to Talk Tax Law, Cybersecurity and Offer Case Resolution
With recent tax law changes and continued cybersecurity threats facing the tax community, the IRS is encouraging tax professionals to sign up for this summer’s Nationwide Tax Forums. Each of [...]
Hold That Call: IRS Warns of New Twist on Phone Scam With ‘Spoofing’
The IRS warned of a new twist on an old phone scam as criminals use telephone numbers that mimic IRS Taxpayer Assistance Centers to trick taxpayers into paying non-existent tax [...]
Software Connect: New Buyers are Driving Accounting Software Purchase Trends for 2018
Accountants have deep insights into their company's processes, so they should be as equally involved in the selection of new software for their organizations. What drives companies to upgrade to [...]
House Ways and Means Committee Wants Answers for IRS Tax Day Tech Breakdown
A bipartisan group of House Ways and Means Committee lawmakers have given the IRS a deadline of May 4 to answer questions related to the April 17 technical glitches that [...]
Charleston Accounting Startup Ceterus Raises $10 Million in Venture Capital
Ceterus, one of Charleston’s fastest-growing technology startups since its founding in 2008, has gained $10 million in a round of Series B funding from Richmond, Va.-based Harbert Growth Partners. It [...]
IMPORTANT: IRS EXTENDS tax deadline to midnight, April 18
Tuesday, April 17, the IRS’ Modernized eFile and Direct Pay services went down, leaving CPA tax practitioners and taxpayers scrambling on the last day of filing season. A number of [...]
IRS e-File and Direct Pay Technical Issues
The IRS announced they are having technical issues with their e-File and Direct Pay systems today. IRS personnel have told us that they are working to resolve the problem. The [...]
SCACPA Member’s New Tech Platform Promises to Link Accountants with Specialty Work
During his five years as a CPA, Sean Kenny became well-versed with the annual Busy Season grind. But in the past year, as he has worked toward his goal of [...]
K2 Enterprises: What To Watch For in AI, Blockchain and Big Data
By Randy Johnston, K2 Enterprises When our K2 team offers a CPE course related to accounting technology, our rule is that we should have content that can be applied the [...]
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Average SC Teacher’s Pay is $10,000 Below National Average The average teacher’s salary of $48,769 in South Carolina is about $10,000 below the national average and nearly $2,200 less than [...]
Spreadsheet Fatigue? Blockchain is on Path to Conquer Auditing
CPAs are on the verge of using blockchain technology to track a client’s physical assets and follow financial goods throughout their lifecycle. When auditors and clients can upload and analyze [...]
Charleston’s PhishLabs Aids Feds in Uncovering Massive Iranian Hacking Attacks on Universities
PhishLabs, a Charleston startup that specializes in Phishing protection, shared what it detected with the FBI about a sophisticated Iranian-based hacking campaign that targeted academic research computers and led to [...]
The Art of Creating a Data Dashboard
By SCACPA Partner, KOPIS USA There are many ways to visualize data. Reports help us dive into the details of a dataset. Some visualizations help us explore data relationships. The [...]