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Lee Pender is a veteran writer who has been with Rightworks since March 2020. Lee spent almost 15 years as a journalist for information technology trade magazines, including CIO, Redmond Channel Partner and what is now eWeek. His experience as a corporate content writer includes stints with a vendor of tax-compliance applications, a website for entrepreneurs and a tech-focused marketing agency.
Lee lives north of Boston with his wife, his two children and his mother. In his personal time, he enjoys swimming and coaching youth soccer. He is a Boston sports fan and a faithful follower of West Ham United, an English soccer club. Lee previously lived in Paris and Rotterdam and has traveled throughout Europe. He still speaks French. Lee earned a degree in journalism from TCU many years ago and is a proud Horned Frog.
Posts by Lee Pender
*This blog is part of the March 2023 Thought Leader newsletter Maybe people should have seen this coming back in 1968, when the HAL 9000 computer from the movie “2001:…
Accountants of a certain age will remember the 1983 movie War Games, in which a pre-Ferris Bueller Matthew Broderick and his classmate, played by fellow generational icon Ally Sheedy, narrowly…
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The number of young college graduates choosing to become accountants is shrinking. As demand for accountants shows no signs of abating, that’s a problem for firms and to the future…
Some things about a new year are almost inevitable: resolutions, a post-holiday hangover and predictions for what will happen in the year to come. You’ll have to decide how to…
Oh, cybercrime is scary, all right—and getting worse all the time. In November, SlashNext reported a 61% increase in malicious URLs since the end of 2021. That works out to…
Automation is a word that inspires both fear and hope in accountants. The rapid evolution of technology over the last couple of decades has led many in the profession to…
Experts from Rightworks share five key cybersecurity takeaways to keep your firm or business safe all year round.
Firms are making plans to embrace automation, but the concept is still a little fuzzy in the accounting profession. What does automation mean for accounting firms, anyway? Is there such…
Your accounting firm needs to continue to develop client accounting and advisory services (CAAS). And it all starts in the cloud.
As if you weren’t aware of cybersecurity already, October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Of course, security has become such a dominant issue for accounting firms and businesses of all types…
Is your CPA firm still using a .com domain name? If so, it might be time to consider switching your online presence to a .cpa domain. The .cpa domain…