Laura Madeira

Laura Madeira is an Advanced Certified ProAdvisor for Intuit's QuickBooks product line. Laura is one of 7 national trainers for Intuit's Accountant Training Network. This select group travels the United States each fall presenting the QuickBooks product to Accountants, CPA's and other consulting professionals. Each year this team presents to an average of 12,000 attendees. Laura has also written numerous technical documents and product presentations for use by Intuit, many published on Intuit's website for public use. Her technical writings have been published by Intuit and distributed at the Fall Update Tour, some 12,000 copies distributed.

Gail Perry

Gail Perry is a CPA and a graduate of Indiana University where she studied journalism, computer science and music. In her spare time, she took accounting classes at Illinois State University and passed the CPA exam. Gail is a tax humor columnist for the Indianapolis Star and is the author of several computer and tax-related books, including The Complete Idiots Guide to Doing Your Income Taxes, and Using Quicken 5 for Windows. In addition to writing, Gail teaches computer classes (including Excel) at the Indiana CPA society.