Michael Doan

From MacRumors:

Silicon Valley startup CloudOn today released a free iPad app [App Store] that aims to bring the functionality of Microsoft Office to the iPad. The iPad app actually serves as an interface for the full cloud-based app on CloudOn’s servers, and thus requires an Internet connection to function, but offers what seems to be a remarkably functional implementation of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all integrated with file storage and syncing through Dropbox.

For those who can’t wait for Office for iOS.

Just before the holidays FASB released ASU 2011-12: Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in Accounting Standards Update No. 2011-05.

As the title of the ASU states, this is a deferral of ASU 2011-05. The reason for the deferral according the FASB:

Stakeholders…recently raised concerns that new presentation requirements about the reclassification of items out of accumulated other comprehensive income would be costly for preparers and add unnecessary complexity to financial statements.

However, not all of the 2011-05 was deferred:

The Board did not defer the requirement to report comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement or in two separate but consecutive financial statements.

ASU 2011-12 can be found here after accepting the FASB’s terms and conditions.

Seth Godin on why productivity tips don’t work:

Until you quiet the resistance and commit to actually shipping things that matter, all the productivity tips in the world aren’t going to make a real difference. And, it turns out, once you do make the commitment, the productivity tips aren’t that needed.

Sage advice.

Here’s a photo of everything that I really need to get work done while on the road or when I want to leave my notebook computer at the office:

I can do almost everything I need to do with an iPad, an iPhone, and Apple’s wireless keyboard. This basic set up will take care of 99% of my email. Things get a little more complicated if an email contains PDFs or Microsoft Office documents, but there are way to handles those too.

For minor edits to Microsoft Excel and Word, I can get by using QuickOffice. Most of my work involves reviewing, so I don’t need to use Excel or Word heavily so QuickOffice does the job

Emails with PDF attachments are easy to handle with GoodReader. When reviewing large PDFs, like Form 10-K filings, GoodReader is must. Also, GoodReder allows me to mark up the PDF and email back to my client or staff.

If I really need to access my notebook to use a PC-only application, like Prosystems Engagement, I use TeamVeiwer HD which lets me remote into my notebook. To do this, TeamViewer needs to be installed on the PC as well.

When I reviewed TurboScan for iPhone, I noted that I can email the scanned document to Evernote.

What I recently discovered is that I can tap the “Open PDF in…” button and select the Evernote option. TurboScan will launch Evernote for iPhone and add the note for me. This is a better way to add a document than emailing to Evernote because I don’t have to worry if the email was actually delivered¹.

TurboScan is getting heavy use from me (at least once a day). It’s really a great app.

I haven’t upgraded to Excel 2010, so I didn’t know about Excel’s AGGREGATE function:

Excel 2010’s new AGGREGATE function, which works just like the SUBTOTAL function, but includes options to ignore hidden rows, error values, or both.

This function sound very handy.

Microsoft released OneNote for iPad.

I’ve been a user of JotNot Scanner Pro, an iPhone document scanning app, for some time. Upon reading Patrick Rhone’s post about TurboScan on MinimalMac, I thought I’d give it a try.

Dead Simple

TurboScan’s interface is dead simple. The home screen has three buttons for the different scanning options: Camera, SureScan 3x, and Album. Below the buttons is a listing of your scanned documents.

The camera and album buttons allow you to take a photo of the document or pull a document in from your Photo library, respectively. SureScan 3x pulls up the camera and takes a photo of the document three times. It then does its magic to give you a nicely scanned image. According the help documentation:

SureScan is our proprietary scanning mode that delivers sharper images with less jitter or smear. SureScan mode is especially useful in low-light conditions

It works great.

Options – PDF, JPG, Paper Size

A scanned document can be emailed, printed, open with a PDF reader app, or saved to the camera roll. You have the option of emailing a PDF or JPG.

Multiple paper sizes are available: US Letter, A4, US Legal, Receipt and Business Card. I ignore these options because I don’t ever intend to print the documents again.

You can also scan multiple pages into one document. This is ideal for a few pages but can be cumbersome if you have lots of pages.

Why Use This?

I hate paper and try to go paperless as much as possible. I often scan business receipts and email them to Evernote and throw the receipt away on the spot.

Sometimes I’m reviewing an SEC filing and have hand-written edits on the filing document. It’s easy to take a photo of the filing and email it my staff or the client. This is handy when I don’t have my Fujitsu Scansnap with me.

A scanner in your pocket for $1.99 isn’t a bad deal.