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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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Firm Management

2015 Readers Choice Awards

Technology is at the core of professional accounting firms, and for more than 25 years, this publication has covered the evolution of not on the technology, but also the dramatic changes in workflow processes and productivity.

Accounting

2015 Review of Accounting Power by AccountantsWorld

Accounting Power from AccountantsWorld, Inc., has been on the market the longest, initially as Accounting Relief, offering accounting firms a collaborative client-firm accounting solution for more than a decade. It is sold only to accounting practices ...

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Accounting

2015 Review of Intuit QuickBooks Online Accountant

Last year, Intuit launched a newly-redesigned online collaborative accounting system designed for accounting professionals who serve small businesses that use QuickBooks. The company has, of course, offered online versions of its traditional QuickBooks...

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Accounting

2015 Review of Xero and Xero Partner Program

The Xero and Xero Partner Platform from Xero, Inc. provide a unified, cloud-based solution for small business accounting and firm management of the client's books. Xero entered the space initially from the small business side, but quickly saw the role ...

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Accounting

Client-Firm Collaboration is the Key to the New Age of Write-Up

Is write-up dead? No, but with the continuing move by small businesses to online accounting software, the way in which accountants provide this service is definitely changing.

Firm Management

2014 Review of ImagineTime Time and Billing

Designed for accounting and law firms, ImagineTime is a desktop or server-based, full-featured time management and billing system for firms seeking multiple timesheet data entry options ...

Firm Management

2014 Review of Chrometa Time Tracking

The Chrometa time and billing system provides good tools for managing staff and team tasking, including projects. The system offers users the ability to log the applications and documents they have accessed during a given time period, which can then ...

Firm Management

2014 Review of BillQuick

BQE Software offers time management, billing and client communication solutions tailored to the specific needs of a variety of professional services firms, including tax and accounting practices. The company’s BillQuick system is geared ...

Firm Management

2014 Review of AccountantsWorld Practice Relief

Practice Relief is a web-based time and billing solution designed for tax and accounting firms. It can be used as a stand-alone program, or as an integrated part of the also web-based Power Practice system. The suite includes options for client ...

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Firm Management

2014 Review of Time and Billing Systems

Over the past several years, two major factors have significantly changed the way many firms operate, both internally as well as how they interact with their clients. The internet, of course, has something to do with this, but it is more in the way ...

Firm Management

2014 Review of Abak 360

Accounting and professional services firms of any size who want a powerful time, billing, expense and project management system, whether tracking for productivity management or for time-based billing purposes.

Firm Management

2014 Review of TPS Software

TPS was specifically designed for accounting firms seeking a streamlined time tracking and invoicing management solution that supports multiple billing options, integration with Outlook and other Office functions, a full AR module, custom reporting and re