![]() ![]() Camera – make sure your camera is above your eye level.Use your camera to take selfies in different locations. If it’s not enough light, put a supplemental light behind your laptop. Lighting – sit facing a window so that you maximize the natural light hitting your face.Easy to use, easy to share, annotate and save to a whole suite of other productivity apps.”Ĭhris Frederiksen, CPA, co-founder of Frederiksen-Crawford CPAs, has these tips for using the Zoom app: Richard Roppa-Roberts, owner of Quasar Cowboy, uses SnagIt from Techsmith. It saves us a lot of time and allows us to communicate without disruption.” Not that it is the only app for this purpose but just having an app like that allows you to communicate with your team without having to email or call. CEO of Powerful Accounting, said, “For communications I would definitely say Slack. You can even pair the app with Alexa to control it all by voice command.”ĭawn Brolin, CPA, CFE. I use the Phillips Hue app paired with eponymous light bulbs to easily change the brightness and color of the light in my home office to match my mood, whether I want to concentrate or relax, or something in between. It is a wonderful second check on diction – based on the type of audience I’m writing for, punctuation, style and word selection.” And he also suggests we try Text Soap, which provides, “All sorts of automated ways to clean up text,” including removing extra spaces and tabs, converting to uppercase, or lowercase, resetting smart or straight quotes, and on and on – there are lots of tools here for setting rules and then applying them to create your finish product.īlake Oliver, director of marketing at Jirav, suggests that, “Good lighting is essential in any home office. “I now only use it as a plug-in to Microsoft Word. ![]() Rick Richardson, CPA.CITP, CGMA, managing partner at Richardson Media & Technologies, recommends Grammarly for writing content. Moreover, it is easy to use and also has an app that can be programmed with different functions and commands. It’s actually designed for truck drivers and does an amazing job filtering out background noise (so the person on the other end of the call only hears your voice). Kevin Bong, COO at AuditFile, said, “It’s not an app but I wanted to share this Bluetooth headset. Ken Healy, CPA, partner at Diversified Financial Solutions, told us, “When I work from home I enjoy using the app Google Voice. It is an app that gives me a separate telephone number that I can use for calling my clients and having them call me through my personal cell phone. The app also allows text messages and my clients see my Google Voice telephone number, not my personal telephone number. The best feature for me is that I can place the app on ‘Do Not Disturb’ outside of business hours. In particular, we’d like to learn about apps and other online solutions that are helping make the work-from-home environment more, well, workable. So we wanted to connect with our CPA Practice Advisor community to get some tips on best practices for setting up a real (as opposed to a corner of the kitchen table) office in their homes. By now, most capable employees have probably proven their ability to work from home and get their jobs done, and we are at least under the impression that employers are coming around to the idea as well. Well, here we are, deep into 2020, and the pandemic is forcing us all to start thinking about home offices as a more-or-less permanent fixture in our lives.
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