Accounting
Isaac M. O'Bannon
Managing Editor
isaac.obannon@cpapracticeadvisor.com
Isaac M. O'Bannon is the managing editor and digital content manager for CPA Practice Advisor (www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com), drawing on two decades of experience covering the areas of professional accounting, taxation, business productivity and consumer technologies.
Prior to CPA Practice Advisor, O'Bannon was a consultant at firms in San Francisco, Denver and Tulsa, serving clients that included Logitech, Polycom, Hilti, Microsoft, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering and other technology leaders. He is a U.S. Navy veteran.
Email: isaac.obannon - @ - cpapracticeadvisor.com
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Accounting
2015 Review of Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Research Platform
Accounting
2015 Review of CCH IntelliConnect Tax Research
Accounting
2015 Review of Tax Research Systems
Taxation is no longer a once-a-year engagement, at least not for clients with more than a couple of W-2s and 1099s. Complex and high net worth clients require strategic tax planning, which in turn requires their professional to stay on top of changes ...
Firm Management
TaxWorkFlow Offers Comprehensive Practice Management Solution
Despite its name, the system is a powerful workflow system for all areas of an accounting firm’s practice, not just workflow. The system offers a myriad of functions for tracking client engagements status, managing those engagements for productivity ...
Firm Management
2015 Review of Time and Billing Systems
Even when billing on a flat-fee model, tracking staff time gives the management of a firm essential information on firm, including staff and group productivity, the appropriateness of the rates that are being charged, and which services are the most or le
Firm Management
Armanino Acquires S. California Accounting Firm
LCMT will become Armanino effective Jan. 1, 2016, and will keep its Woodland Hills, California office location at 5959 Topanga Canyon Blvd. #180. Clients will continue to work with the same partners and staff without disruption to service.
Accounting
2015 Most Powerful Women in Accounting
Each year, CPA Practice Advisor recognizes women professionals who have had the most impact on the profession, whether through day-to-day client service as a partner or senior member of an accounting practice, or by mentoring and guiding others.
Automation
2015 Review of Intuit Lacerte and ProSeries Scan and Import
Tax Scan and Import is a module for firms using the ProSeries and Lacerte tax preparation systems, offering the ability to scan in client documents, with the system then using optical character recognition (OCR) to determine which forms were scanned ...
Automation
2015 Review of CCH ProSystem fx Scan with AutoFlow Technology
ProSystem fx Scan is a tax document automation system that offers optical character recognition (OCR) functions for identifying scanned-in tax forms and extracting data from the forms. It can be used as an integrated part of CCH’s ProSystem fx Suite ...
2015 Review of GruntWorx Organize, Populate and Trades
GruntWorx offers a completely web-based tax automation solution that helps firms create an editable and annotatable PDF tax binder out of their client’s scanned-in paper source documents.
Software
2015 Review of SurePrep 1040SCAN
SurePrep is the most experienced in this market and has been offering tax automation services for more than a decade. The system’s automatic population features integrate to fill out client tax returns in many professional tax systems, and the company ...