The use of video social media sites by accounting firms will increase this year as indicated by the 2014 Social CPAs Survey. Drawing from responses by 395 participants, the survey found that 38.3 percent of respondents plan to add YouTube or Vimeo to the list of social channels they use during 2015. Google+ also showed strong potential in the online survey.

A lot of neat new electronic gadgets and devices will be introduced this week at the annual Consumer Electronic show in Las Vegas, Nev. Many will not have a direct impact on the technology at use at tax and accounting firms. Wearable devices and the new Panasonic Bread Maker with gluten-free baking mode probably are not on the buying list.

Did you get what you want for Christmas? Perhaps not, but this list was sent to Santa before the holiday and, well he didn't bring everything. But you may be able to take the money from your exchanges and shop for something that's truly interesting.

It has gotten to the point that talking about business software without addressing the issues of the cloud and mobile access is like discussing peanut butter without jelly. And that applies to the time-and-billing software market, where the spread of portals and remote time entry has been important, if not for use today, for use of those moving to these tools in the near future.