Before computers, accountants used special paper with columns to summarize general ledger entries. Columnar worksheets made accounting projects easier than if they were written on notebook paper.

Reaching 400 consecutive weeks of practice management columns is, I believe, an admirable achievement. I wanted to “celebrate” it with a fantastic column today. However, it occurred to me that most ...

My 500th column probably has no importance to anyone except me and possibly Michael Cohn of Accounting Today who edits them and was the person who made the decision to post this series. The only ...