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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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2019 Review of Drake Tax

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2019 Reviews of Professional Tax Preparation Systems

Throughout the review process, we looked at numerous system features and functions including cloud/remote access, the ability to support multiple tax preparers simultaneously, e-filing availability, and the ability to import data from other applications.

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2019 Review of ATX

ATX from Wolters Kluwer is a tax compliance application that is well suited for small to mid-sized accounting firms that typically file fairly uncomplicated returns. ATX also offers excellent tax law research capability that integrates with the core ...

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Accounting

AICPA News May 2019

A roundup of recent news from the AICPA. The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) issued a formal thank you to both the U.S. Treasury and the IRS for providing taxpayers with more extensive relief from penalties associated with underpayment of ...

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Accounting

2019 Review of WASP Inventory Cloud

WASP Inventory Cloud offers an intuitive user interface that is designed to integrate with other WASP applications. Users can easily add a new product in WASP Inventory Cloud manually, assigning a unique number to each product, or have a number ...

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Accounting

2019 Review of Zoho Inventory Management

Zoho Inventory Management is a cloud-based inventory control application that is part of Zoho’s suite of applications designed for small to mid-sized businesses. Zoho Inventory allows users to centralize inventory, a great option for those with both ...

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Accounting

2019 Review of inFlow Inventory Software

inFlow Inventory is best suited for small to mid-sized retailers and online merchants, as well as product distributors. inFlow is available as a cloud application or can be installed on-premise if desired. inFlow also offers iPhone and Android apps ...

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Accounting

2019 Review of Fishbowl Inventory Warehouse

Fishbowl Warehouse is a scalable warehouse/manufacturing application that is well suited for mid-sized to larger retail businesses, and online merchants. Along with the core Warehouse and Manufacturing applications, Fishbowl also offers a variety of ...

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Accounting

2019 Review of EZOfficeInventory

EZOfficeInventory is an online asset tracking and inventory management application that is designed for businesses that have a large number of assets or internal inventory that needs to be tracked. Not well-suited for retail businesses or online ...

Accounting

2019 Review of Asset Panda

Asset Panda is a flexible online asset management tracking program best suited for businesses that have a variety of asset types that need to be managed. Asset Panda also offers easy mobile capability and is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Android ...

Accounting

2019 Review of Advance Pro Supply Chain Management

Advance Pro Supply Chain Management is best suited for mid-sized to larger manufacturing, distribution, and wholesale businesses, though the product can be used in retail businesses as well. Advance Pro offers a long list of standard modules, with a ...

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Accounting

2019 Review of Acctivate QuickBooks Inventory

Designed exclusively for QuickBooks, Acctivate Inventory for QuickBooks offers complete integration with desktop and online versions of the popular accounting application. Acctivate offers both on-premise and cloud deployment and can be used by retail ...