Gail Perry is a CPA and a graduate of Indiana University. She has worked in public accounting for more than 20 years and has spent that time helping her clients make the best use of the tax laws and accounting rules that benefit them most. Gail is a former senior tax consultant with the international CPA firm Deloitte, where she specialized in providing tax planning services and advice to small businesses. She has written hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles about taxes, personal and business finances, and financial software and is a contributing editor for SMBFinance and Accounting Today magazines. Gail is the author of more than 20 books, including The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Doing Your IncomeTaxes, Show Me QuickBooks 2006, and Surviving Financial Downsizing: A Practical Guide to Living Well on Less Income.