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Thanks for the heads up, Eric. My regular phone is an iPhone 8, but I keep my old iPhone 6 as a backup (just in case my 8 goes missing, I can keep operating without any delay while I replace the 8). I tried an update on the 6 when the update was first discussed and I was updating the 8, but the 6 it said it was up to date. Sure enough, after reading this info from the last day or so, I ran a software update on the 6 this morning and it did download an update to version 12.5.6 (16H71).

Thank you - I am just trying to ignore it while I do taxes! I am stopping for 2 days and - should not and move the date but too late now! - and celebrating our 45th Anniversary with church - renewal of vows and extended family dinner on Sun the 11th. the 10th , our anniv - somehow we are babysitting - which we rarely do and now on our anniv - Hubby did that one.. hmm'

I too am due for EA renewal next year and will pay whatever they want because I NEVER want to take that exam again. Fortunately, my employer pays for continuing ed. I renewed my NAEA membership this year but think I won't going forward. It's expensive for the benefits received, which to me is pretty much the journal. I love their journal, but their meetings where I can network with other tax pros are so far away I'd need a hotel stay. I find their forum so-so; many posters try to be helpful but others seem bent on showing off their knowledge and putting others down. Nothing like here, where nearly everyone freely shares, emphathizes, and truly tries to help. No one cares to be the smartest person in the room. Clients who do their own accounting don't realize that you may have to do hours of cleanup. I had a client whose relative did the books, and it took me a full week to do it right. (Dunkin' and McDonalds charges listed as "meals and entertainment"; cigarette purchases and wife's gas station fill ups under transportation, and on and on). Tell your client no discount or price reduction until you see how long it takes you to clean up. He might not save a dime, and it might just cost him more (especially if he uses QB online, where changing things takes a whole lot longer than original entries).

Indeed, for many, change is not inevitable, it is bad, never to be thought of. I just had someone ask why we no longer print the full SSN on pay stubs, and no longer print it in other places not required. Seems to be employee driven complaints, when they come across a lousy lender who believes a stub is proof of income (back to the junk mortgage days I guess).