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Mary Girsch-Bock

Contributing Writer

mary.girschbock@cpapracticeadvisor.com

Mary grew up in Chicago, graduating from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She began her career as accountant and later made the switch to writing full time, concentrating on business and technology, with a focus on small business. A former QuickBooks beta tester, Mary’s work has appeared in The Motley Fool, The Blueprint, and Property Manager.com. She currently writes a monthly accounting and technology-related blog for PLANERGY, and ghostwrites several blogs for various software companies.

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2020 Review of Intuit Lacerte

Lacerte Tax from Intuit offers both individual and business tax preparation capability and is a good fit for accounting firms of all sizes. Lacerte handles a wide variety of return types and also offers complete integration with QuickBooks Accountant. Lac

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2020 Review of Drake Tax

Drake Tax from Drake Software is best suited for small to mid-sized accounting and CPA firms that are looking for a complete tax solution. A consistent winner of the CPA Practice Advisor’s Reader’s Choice Awards since 2004, Drake Software offers a ...

2020 Review of ATX Tax

ATX from Wolters Kluwer is a tax compliance application that is best suited for small to mid-sized accounting firms that typically process uncomplicated returns. ATX currently offers multiple tax packages including Pay-Per-Return, 1040, MAX, Total Tax ...

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2020 Review of TaxSlayer Pro

TaxSlayer Pro is the professional version of the commercial product, TaxSlayer. TaxSlayer Pro offers on-premise and cloud accessible applications and is better suited for firms that prepare a high number of returns annually.

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2020 Review of TaxAct Professional

TaxAct Professional Edition is designed for accounting and tax professionals and is a good fit for small to mid-sized firms that prepare a high number of individual and business returns.

2020 Review of TaxWise

TaxWise Online from Wolters Kluwer is a scalable cloud-based tax compliance application well-suited for small to mid-sized firms that process federal and state individual forms for clients. For firms that process both individual and business returns ...

Thomson Reuters

2020 Review of Thomson Reuters UltraTax CS

UltraTax CS from Thomson Reuters is part of the CS Professional Suite of applications. UltraTax CS is better suited to larger firms that process more than 250 tax returns annually.

Thomson Reuters

2020 Review of GoSystem RS Tax

GoSystem Tax RS from Thomson Reuters is part of the CS Professional Suite of applications. A good fit for larger accounting firms as well as corporate tax departments, GoSystem Tax RS is equipped to handle the complex corporate returns, life insurance ...

TaxDome

2020 Overview of TaxDome

Xero

Firm Management

2020 Review of Xero Practice Manager

Xero Practice Manager is designed to be used by accounting firms in conjunction with their clients' use of Xero Online Accounting. Xero Practice Manager is cloud-based, with users able to access the application from any device at any time.

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Firm Management

2020 Review of Thomson Reuters Practice CS

Thomson Reuters Practice CS is a standalone product that is suitable for accounting firms of all sizes, however this product is part of the Thomson Reuters CS Professional Suite and firms using other Thomson Reuters applications will see the ...

Firm Management

2020 Review of CCH Axcess Practice Management & ProSystem fx Suite Practice Management

CCH Axcess Practice Management and ProSystem fx Suite’s Practice Management both from CCH Group are best suited for mid-sized or larger accounting firms that use other CCH applications.