Download or read book Building the Virtual CFO Firm in the Cloud written by Jody Grunden and published by CPA Trendlines. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Virtual CFO written by Jody Grunden and published by CPA Trendlines. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Virtual CFO Firm written by Jody Grunden and published by CPA Trendlines. This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enterprise Cloud Strategy written by Barry Briggs and published by Microsoft Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you start? How should you build a plan for cloud migration for your entire portfolio? How will your organization be affected by these changes? This book, based on real-world cloud experiences by enterprise IT teams, seeks to provide the answers to these questions. Here, you’ll see what makes the cloud so compelling to enterprises; with which applications you should start your cloud journey; how your organization will change, and how skill sets will evolve; how to measure progress; how to think about security, compliance, and business buy-in; and how to exploit the ever-growing feature set that the cloud offers to gain strategic and competitive advantage.
Download or read book The Definitive Guide to Client Accounting Services written by Hitendra Patil and published by CPA Trendlines. This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digital Dollars and Cents written by Jody Grunden and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Changing the way people think about accounting." In Digital Dollars and Cents: A Virtual CFO's Playbook to help Digital Companies Create a Financial Roadmap to Success, Jody Grunden helps startup founders and company owners dive deep into the financial side of the business. What is forecasting and why do you need to do it? Learn the importance of using a forecast as a guide for every decision you make -- i.e. expansion, acquisition, buyout, retirement. What if you could pull a lever to improve your company's performance? You can! Discover the four levers (Utilization, Weekly Expectation, Standard Bill Rate and Average Bill Rate) and how they all lead to your company's Effective Rate. How do you determine and measure your pipeline? Your pipeline metric (what you currently have under contract and what you have "in the works") should not be forgotten as it can have a drastic impact on your revenue. Jody Grunden pulls from over 20 years of both public and corporate accounting experience to provide this tremendous resource for business owners. He is the co-founder and CEO at Summit CPA Group, a Virtual CFO firm that helps clients maximize profits, minimize taxes, and increase cash flow. His personable style makes it easy for readers to understand and apply the concepts to their own company, regardless of their current comfort level with the finances. About the Summit CPA Group Summit CPA Group operates under a profit-focused model, using dynamic forecasting models and key performance indicators with their clients to help them transcend their focus from simply "being in the black" to longer-term financial health and wealth. Building on their foundation, Summit CPA Group started another line of business in 2010 doing 401K Audits. Since then, the Audit team has grown to be recognized as one of the top 5% of all firms performing that type of audit (based on quantity of audits). With the mission statement, "Changing the way people think about accounting," the next big step for the Summit CPA Group will be helping make this level of service a norm rather than an exception within other accounting firms.
Download or read book Handbook of Cloud Computing written by Nayyar Dr. Anand and published by BPB Publications. This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great POSSIBILITIES and high future prospects to become ten times folds in the near FUTUREKey features Comprehensively gives clear picture of current state-of-the-art aspect of cloud computing by elaborating terminologies, models and other related terms. Enlightens all major players in Cloud Computing industry providing services in terms of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Highlights Cloud Computing Simulators, Security Aspect and Resource Allocation. In-depth presentation with well-illustrated diagrams and simple to understand technical concepts of cloud. Description The book "e;Handbook of Cloud Computing"e; provides the latest and in-depth information of this relatively new and another platform for scientific computing which has great possibilities and high future prospects to become ten folds in near future. The book covers in comprehensive manner all aspects and terminologies associated with cloud computing like SaaS, PaaS and IaaS and also elaborates almost every cloud computing service model.The book highlights several other aspects of cloud computing like Security, Resource allocation, Simulation Platforms and futuristic trend i.e. Mobile cloud computing. The book will benefit all the readers with all in-depth technical information which is required to understand current and futuristic concepts of cloud computing. No prior knowledge of cloud computing or any of its related technology is required in reading this book. What will you learn Cloud Computing, Virtualisation Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service Data in Cloud and its Security Cloud Computing - Simulation, Mobile Cloud Computing Specific Cloud Service Models Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing Who this book is for Students of Polytechnic Diploma Classes- Computer Science/ Information Technology Graduate Students- Computer Science/ CSE / IT/ Computer Applications Master Class Students-Msc (CS/IT)/ MCA/ M.Phil, M.Tech, M.S. Researcher's-Ph.D Research Scholars doing work in Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Cloud Security Industry Professionals- Preparing for Certifications, Implementing Cloud Computing and even working on Cloud Security Table of contents1. Introduction to Cloud Computing2. Virtualisation3. Software as a Service4. Platform as a Service5. Infrastructure as a Service6. Data in Cloud7. Cloud Security 8. Cloud Computing - Simulation9. Specific Cloud Service Models10. Resource Allocation in Cloud Computing11. Mobile Cloud Computing About the authorDr. Anand Nayyar received Ph.D (Computer Science) in Wireless Sensor Networks and Swarm Intelligence. Presently he is working in Graduate School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam. He has total of fourteen Years of Teaching, Research and Consultancy experience with more than 250 Research Papers in various International Conferences and highly reputed journals. He is certified Professional with more than 75 certificates and member of 50 Professional Organizations. He is acting as "e;ACM DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER"e;
Download or read book Integrative Advisory Services written by Amy Vetter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop crunching numbers and start truly serving your clients Integrative Advisory Services is the CPA, accounting professional and bookkeeper's guide to the future. As technology paves the way for increased self-reliance and DIY financial services, much of the traditional data entry tasks of accounting professionals and bookkeepers will be reduced. Yet, nothing can replace the human side of the client-advisor experience and the desire to improve your clients' businesses with financial information. Technology will continue marching on, so accounting professionals must adapt to the changing marketplace to thrive in this new paradigm. This book shows you how to provide the kind of value that technology cannot: human connection. Rather than simply reporting data, today's accounting professionals have an opportunity to take a much more active role in their clients' business by analyzing the story behind the numbers, understanding both operations and finance, and guiding the client toward the outcomes they need. Creating an ongoing relationship throughout the year allows you to be proactive rather than reactive, and help your client's business at a holistic level. Your business owner and CEO clients can get the numbers from the computer too—but, they come to you for personalized advice, explanations, and guidance based on their unique situation and financial needs. This book shows you how to take on more of an advisory role and become a critical component of your client's success. Spend less time crunching numbers and more time advising clients Become an integral part of the client's decision-making process Provide real value by clearly communicating financial data analysis Become the strategic partner your client cannot do without Cloud technology, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are not the death knell for financial advisors; in fact, they're the opposite—they do the number crunching for you, leaving you more time to provide the personal guidance that no computer could. As the financial advisory industry evolves, Integrative Advisory Services is your real-world guide to adapting and thriving.
Download or read book Cloud Computing written by Rajkumar Buyya and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary purpose of this book is to capture the state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing technologies and applications. The book will also aim to identify potential research directions and technologies that will facilitate creation a global market-place of cloud computing services supporting scientific, industrial, business, and consumer applications. We expect the book to serve as a reference for larger audience such as systems architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers and graduate level students. This area of research is relatively recent, and as such has no existing reference book that addresses it. This book will be a timely contribution to a field that is gaining considerable research interest, momentum, and is expected to be of increasing interest to commercial developers. The book is targeted for professional computer science developers and graduate students especially at Masters level. As Cloud Computing is recognized as one of the top five emerging technologies that will have a major impact on the quality of science and society over the next 20 years, its knowledge will help position our readers at the forefront of the field.
Download or read book Cloud Application Architectures written by George Reese and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services. While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications into these virtualized services. Cloud Application Architectures provides answers -- and critical guidance -- on issues of cost, availability, performance, scaling, privacy, and security. With Cloud Application Architectures, you will: Understand the differences between traditional deployment and cloud computing Determine whether moving existing applications to the cloud makes technical and business sense Analyze and compare the long-term costs of cloud services, traditional hosting, and owning dedicated servers Learn how to build a transactional web application for the cloud or migrate one to it Understand how the cloud helps you better prepare for disaster recovery Change your perspective on application scaling To provide realistic examples of the book's principles in action, the author delves into some of the choices and operations available on Amazon Web Services, and includes high-level summaries of several of the other services available on the market today. Cloud Application Architectures provides best practices that apply to every available cloud service. Learn how to make the transition to the cloud and prepare your web applications to succeed.
Download or read book Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures written by Zaigham Mahmood and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important text provides a single point of reference for state-of-the-art cloud computing design and implementation techniques. The book examines cloud computing from the perspective of enterprise architecture, asking the question; how do we realize new business potential with our existing enterprises? Topics and features: with a Foreword by Thomas Erl; contains contributions from an international selection of preeminent experts; presents the state-of-the-art in enterprise architecture approaches with respect to cloud computing models, frameworks, technologies, and applications; discusses potential research directions, and technologies to facilitate the realization of emerging business models through enterprise architecture approaches; provides relevant theoretical frameworks, and the latest empirical research findings.
Download or read book Is Your Company Ready for Cloud written by Pamela K. Isom and published by IBM Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book successfully addresses the approach for adopting cloud into organizations (small and large), realizing that every application may not be a fit for a cloud environment. The writer does an excellent job of integrating cloud into the approach for an enterprise architecture and drilling down into how to evaluate cloud in its variety of implementation techniques, along with the benefits and drawbacks of each.” — Sue Miller-Sylvia, IBM Fellow and Vice President, Application Innovation Services, IBM Global Business Services Make the Right Cloud Adoption and Deployment Decisions for Your Business This is the first complete guide to cloud decision making for senior executives in both technology and non-technology roles. IBM® Global Business Services® Executive Architect Pamela K. Isom and IBM Fellow Kerrie Holley present practical business cases, vignettes, and techniques to help you understand when cloud investments make sense and when they don’t. You’ll find decision models that are anchored with practical experiences and lessons to guide your decision making, best practices for leveraging investments you’ve already made, and expert assistance with every aspect of the cloud transition. Drawing on their extensive experience working with enterprise clients, Isom and Holley show how to integrate both business and technical considerations, set the right priorities, and successfully manage everything from security and performance to governance. Whatever your company’s size, industry, or challenges, this book will help you drive maximum business value from the cloud—on your terms and on your timeline. Coverage includes Assessing the business value of a cloud adoption strategy based on 10 specific expectations Gaining more value by incorporating cloud into enterprise architecture Implementing cloud when you don’t already have an enterprise architecture Fully understanding the financial implications of cloud-based strategies and technologies Incorporating cloud in environments that have already adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Selecting components of your cloud portfolio, including elements of larger outsourced or managed solutions Governing cloud as part of your overall organizational landscape Systematically recognizing and mitigating cloud adoption risks, including security, cost, and performance Planning the transition: retiring legacy applications, transforming business processes, and selecting partners Anticipating and guiding the use of cloud business patterns, trends, and technologies
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Virtual Organizations written by Yogesh Malhotra and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Twenty essays present current research on knowledge management as related to effective design of new organization forms. The first section of the book covers frameworks, models, analyses, case studies and research on the integration of knowledge management within virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual communities of practice. Themes covered in this section include business model innovation; design of virtual organization forms; net-based models; techniques for enabling knowledge capture, sharing and transfer; and collaboration and competition at intra- and inter-organizational levels. The focus of the second half is on key success factors that are important for realizing virtual models of business transformation. Topics include the role of organizational control systems, the role of internal and external employees and customers in creation of organizational knowledge, and information quality issues. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book From Cubicle to Cloud written by Jennifer Brazer and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can have a good idea. Very few can turn it into a million-dollar one. Until now. It’s challenging to start and scale a business. Choosing the cloud as your platform for delivery and headquarters presents a whole new set of obstacles. This guide will allow you to leverage the cloud to streamline your processes and maximize your profits. When Jennifer Brazer founded her company, Complete Controller, she disrupted and reinvented client accounting services (CAS), creating an entirely new cloud-based business model. Whether your specialty is accounting, therapy, design, law, or any other field, groundbreaking expert Jennifer Brazer will show you how to • recruit, train, monitor, motivate, and mentor your staff without ever being in the same room; • price, package, and present your service so its value is recognized and desired beyond geo constraints; • build trust and reputation with customers, colleagues, and vendors without in-person interaction; • develop roles and processes to support your model and measure business performance; • overcome doubt, naysayers, and traditional model rigidity for your industry; • keep the faith, even when capital and courage run thin. This book is for entrepreneurs at any point in their journey to the cloud, providing indispensable tools that will set up a cloud-based professional service for maximum success.
Download or read book Securing the Cloud written by Vic (J.R.) Winkler and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Securing the Cloud is the first book that helps you secure your information while taking part in the time and cost savings of cloud computing. As companies turn to burgeoning cloud computing technology to streamline and save money, security is a fundamental concern. The cloud offers flexibility, adaptability, scalability, and in the case of security - resilience. Securing the Cloud explains how to make the move to the cloud, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of securing a company's information with different cloud approaches. It offers a clear and concise framework to secure a business' assets while making the most of this new technology.This book considers alternate approaches for securing a piece of the cloud, such as private vs. public clouds, SaaS vs. IaaS, and loss of control and lack of trust. It discusses the cloud's impact on security roles, highlighting security as a service, data backup, and disaster recovery. It also describes the benefits of moving to the cloud - solving for limited availability of space, power, and storage.This book will appeal to network and security IT staff and management responsible for design, implementation and management of IT structures from admins to CSOs, CTOs, CIOs and CISOs. - Named The 2011 Best Identity Management Book by InfoSec Reviews - Provides a sturdy and stable framework to secure your piece of the cloud, considering alternate approaches such as private vs. public clouds, SaaS vs. IaaS, and loss of control and lack of trust - Discusses the cloud's impact on security roles, highlighting security as a service, data backup, and disaster recovery - Details the benefits of moving to the cloud-solving for limited availability of space, power, and storage
Download or read book Dear Mr a Letters Revealing the Secrets of an Entrepreneur written by George Black and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any one with a vision for anything is an entrepreneur. Life becomes a real adventure for those who, act on their vision and seize opportunity!Max North, a recent college graduate, is an assistant to an assistant at a large, grain processing operation in Salina, Kansas. Even so, he would prefer to chart his own course rather than be a part of another person¿s vision. So, he pursues his entrepreneurial itch.On July 10, 1941, Max writes a letter to a billionaire in New York City: Mr. A, whom he hopes could be an entrepreneurial sage. Max asks a simple question. Surprisingly, Mr. A responds creating more questions in Max and launching him on an authentic adventure he never imagined, that includes a World War.Throughout their 5 year correspondence Mr. A shares his secrets as an entrepreneur and life wisdom. Ultimately, Mr. A guides Max through his greatest secret: a strategic process called The Next Level Navigator¿.In Dear Mr. A, George Black invites readers to join Max in discovering more about themselves, their passions and purpose by applying the same sage advice Max receives. Included in the text, these applications set the foundation for any successful endeavor, because true success begins with one¿s true self! In addition, readers can develop The Next Level Navigator for their own personal Next Level or for their startup or for their ongoing business, as Max develops his.Ignite your passions, overcome obstacles, and reach your Next Level with Max and Mr. A !
Download or read book The Technology Fallacy written by Gerald C. Kane and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why an organization's response to digital disruption should focus on people and processes and not necessarily on technology. Digital technologies are disrupting organizations of every size and shape, leaving managers scrambling to find a technology fix that will help their organizations compete. This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions—but it is not a book about technology. It is about the organizational changes required to harness the power of technology. The authors argue that digital disruption is primarily about people and that effective digital transformation involves changes to organizational dynamics and how work gets done. A focus only on selecting and implementing the right digital technologies is not likely to lead to success. The best way to respond to digital disruption is by changing the company culture to be more agile, risk tolerant, and experimental. The authors draw on four years of research, conducted in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte, surveying more than 16,000 people and conducting interviews with managers at such companies as Walmart, Google, and Salesforce. They introduce the concept of digital maturity—the ability to take advantage of opportunities offered by the new technology—and address the specifics of digital transformation, including cultivating a digital environment, enabling intentional collaboration, and fostering an experimental mindset. Every organization needs to understand its “digital DNA” in order to stop “doing digital” and start “being digital.” Digital disruption won't end anytime soon; the average worker will probably experience numerous waves of disruption during the course of a career. The insights offered by The Technology Fallacy will hold true through them all. A book in the Management on the Cutting Edge series, published in cooperation with MIT Sloan Management Review.
