BRIAN T. STONER, CPA  

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  Article one discusses various web browser productivity tips   and Article two talks about things you can do to try to get a handle on spam!
     

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Browser Productivity Tips You May Not Know


If you spend a lot of time online using a web browser to view web sites or to work in online applications, then you may benefit from knowing these wonderful features about your browser software. 
 
Bookmarks
 
All browsers support bookmarks, and hopefully you are already using this powerful feature. Which web pages do you need to visit on a daily basis? Those should be ones that have a place on your browser's bookmark bar. Look for your browser menu to find the bookmark commands you can use to set them up.
 
Avoid bookmarking your bank, brokerage, and credit card web pages for security reasons, but most everything else is fair game and will save you a lot of time.
 
Browse Incognito
 
Need to browse privately?  Many browsers offer incognito browsing which disables browsing history and the web cache. Find this command in your browser menu.   
 
People
 
Roughly two-thirds of the population use Google Chrome as their browser, and the People feature is unique to Chrome. If you have a situation where you have multiple accounts with one software provider, Chrome allows you to have an entirely separate browser session going on for each person.
 
Let's say you're a social media consultant and manage the Facebook accounts for ten clients. You can set up a "person" in Chrome, one for each client. You then can have ten browser sessions going for each of your clients without having to log out and log back in to each Facebook account.
 
Do you volunteer at a nonprofit where you manage accounts for them? Set them up as a new person, and you can log in to all of their accounts without impacting yours. 
 
Pretend that different departments of your business are separate people. Set up Accounting as a person in Chrome and log in to all of your accounting apps. Or set up Marketing as a person and log in to all your marketing and social media apps using this person.
 
Set up a different bookmark bar for each person, pouring rocket fuel on your time savings and decluttering you bookmark bars at the same time.  
 
Set up a new person using the Manage People section in Settings.  Toggle between People by using the button on the tab bar at the top right of your screen just to the left of the Minimize command.
 
Extensions
 
Many browsers have extensions or plug-ins which expand the functionality of the browser. Here are couple of favorites. 
 
  • Gmail Offline - allows Gmail users to view their email when they don't have an Internet connection.
  • AdBlock Plus - tired of ads popping up? Get this extension to thwart them.
  • Momentum - provides a customized, motivational dashboard with weather, time, and daily to-do items.
  • Pocket - allows you to save articles and other content to read later or on your other devices.
 
Many of the software apps you use every day also have Chrome extensions you can use. Pinterest, Evernote, your anti-virus software, Hootsuite, and others have extensions you can check out and install. 
 
Try these tips to learn your browser software better and become more productive while navigating the web. 

  
  
 
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Accounting Employment Opportunities  

 
Pauline Casbon of Casbon & Associates, LLC is a professional recruiter I have known for quite a while. She is very professional and can help accountants looking for work get a new position as well as find accounting professionals for business and industry.
   
 
Full Time Job Opportunities: Contact Pauline Casbon at
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  Referral fee for any potential employee that is placed in any of the following positions.      
 
  Immediate Hires!    


Tax Managers, CPAs needed for Encino, West Los Angeles, Century City and Santa Monica. 

Bookkeeper/Personal Assistant. able to handle HR. Up to $60k plus benefits. Santa Monica.

Bookkeeper for a CPA firm located in Van Nuys. Salary range $60k plus great benefits and a career path.

Accounting Manager/Controller for business management accounting firm.  Offering up to 125k plus excellent benefits. Located in Encino.

Account manager for Encino. Salary range of 80k plus benefits. Quickbooks preferred.

Tax Administrator for great firm in Westwood, salary up to $79k.

Tax Manager with business management accounting industry experience required to handle tax planning. Salary commensurate with experience plus excellent benefits. West Los Angeles.

Bookkeeper for West Los Angeles with Business Management accounting experience, Datafaction imaging required. Looking for an employee who can step into an Account Manager position in approximately one year.

Property Manager with Yardi experience. Previous experience of handling commercial properties. Salary of approximately $72k. 

Staff Accountant required to join their other young of accountants for a business management accounting firm handling high net worth individuals in the entertainment industry, great opportunity, career path offering salary up to $80k commensurate with experience, plus OT and bonus. Business Management accounting experience required. Santa Monica and Sherman Oaks.

Account Managers for business management accounting firm. Datafaction imaging required. Excellent opportunity, competitive salary and benefits. Located in Santa Monica, West Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Century City, Westwood and Encino.

Assistant Bookkeeper and Bookkeepers for business management accounting firm in Century City, Beverly Hills, Westwood and West Los Angeles. Opportunity for great career path in business management, salary up to $55k. Datafaction preferred.

Senior Tax Accountant, CPA in Sherman Oaks!

Audit Senior/Manager, CPA for Century City, Arcadia, West Los Angeles and Pasadena. Competitive salary and good benefits. Career path opportunity!!

Tax Accountant, CPA for prestigious firm in Century City and Encino, definite opportunity for career path. Business management accounting industry preferred.

Tax Senior, CPA for prestigious CPA firm in Century City. Salary competitive and commensurate with experience. 85K plus.

Accounting Clerk for real estate firm required. Yardi experience a must! One to two years experience required. Located in Mid City.

Assistant Bookkeeper with Datafaction for Business Management Accounting firm in Beverly Hills. Career Path. Great salary and benefits!

Tax Seniors for West LA, Century City, San Fernando Valley and the San Gabriel Valley; CPA firm and Business Management Accounting firm, seeking potential employees looking for a career path!
 
Business Manager for Bus. Management accounting firm to become a Partner.  Century City. CPA Certification required.
 
 Two Audit Seniors for CPA firm located in Santa Monica. Career path opportunities.
 
 
Tax Accountant for Century City and Encino 1 to 2 years experience of tax preparation with a CPA firm and/or Business Management accounting firm.
 
Royalty Analyst required for firm located in Encino. 

   
Looking for immediate hires! 
 
I am looking to expand my client base, if you would like further information regarding my staffing services, please do not hesitate to call.  I am happy to visit your office which helps me gain an even better understanding of your firm's culture and staffing requirements.  Please review my website at


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What to Do About Spam
  
Unfortunately, spam is an inevitable part of today's digital world.  The bad news is if you have your spam settings set too tightly, you will lose good emails.  If you receive new prospects via email, you may miss out on good clients and revenue.  If you have your settings too loose, you have to take up extra time to wade through the spam emails. 
 
Here are some tips and facts that can help you control it.
 
Anti-virus software
 
Desktop-based (not cloud-based) anti-virus software is a must anyway, and most have an anti-spam component that can be activated to mark spam and move it to a junk folder in your Outlook or email software.  You can then periodically review and delete the items in the junk folder. 
 
Web hosting software
 
Many website hosting packages come with SpamAssassin which you can set up via your website's control panel.  You can choose whether to delete the spam and you can set the level of deletion which is based on an email scoring system as to how spammy it is.   Your webmster can help you set this up.
 
Third-party email
 
About half of all businesses have gone to third-party email solutions such as Google mail, Rackspace, Office 365, and many others.  Many of these have built-in spam protection on their servers. 
 
Gmail, which is free, is also very popular and filters the spam automatically.  You can set up your gmail account so that it sends from your business email. 
 
Challenge and response software
 
Some business owners have gone to a challenge and response software such as SpamArrest.  All emails coming in require validation via a captcha (those boxes that have you prove you're a person and not a robot by entering letters and numbers) on the sender's part.  
 
Old email addresses
 
Older email addresses are subject to more spam than newer ones.  Also, if you use common emails such as info@yourdomain.com, you probably get more spam than most.  Start over every 3-5 years with new emails.  It is worth the time.   

 
    
  
    
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Brian T. Stoner, CPA 
2600 W. Olive Ave., 5th Floor
Burbank, CA 91505
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