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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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2018 Review of Lacerte Tax - From Intuit

For tax year 2018, Lacerte Tax offers enhanced e-filing capability by adding more than 50 e-file return types including amended, extensions, and estimated payments for more than 15 states. The e-Organizer will also be included for unlimited tax ...

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2018 Review of Intuit ProConnect Tax Online

ProConnect Tax Online is best suited for both multi-service and tax-only firms that are small and growing. ProConnect Tax Online processes both individual and business returns, and offers easy online access, with users able to access the application ...

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2018 Review of Canopy Tax

Canopy offers a series of software products designed for the professional accounting office, including Practice Management, Document Management and a client portal. Canopy also offers Tax Resolution, a great solution for CPAs that wish to guide their ...

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2018 Review of GoSystem Tax RS - From Thomson Reuters

GoSystem Tax RS from Thomson Reuters best suited for mid-sized and large firms that process more complex returns such as consolidated corporate returns, life insurance returns, and tax equalization returns. GoSystem Tax also offers individual tax ...

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2018 Review of Drake Tax

Drake Tax from Drake Software is well-suited for small to mid-sized accounting firms that process both individual and business taxes for clients. As a consistent winner of CPA Practice Advisor’s Reader’s Choice Awards annually since 2004, Drake ...

2018 Review of Professional Tax Preparation Systems

2018 will definitely be an interesting year for tax professionals, with the most significant tax changes in more than 30 years due to take place. These changes are widespread, taking place for both individual tax filers, as well as corporations.

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2018 Review of Fyle Expense Management

Fyle offers automated employee expense tracking, utilizing data extraction technology to extract data from a variety of receipt types, reducing and in many cases eliminating manual data entry, while automating the expense report creation process.

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2018 Review of Nonprofit Accounting Software

One of the most common misconceptions is that nonprofit software is only useful for larger organizations; that smaller nonprofits can easily use standard accounting software. The truth is, while the needs of smaller nonprofits are less complicated ...

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2018 Review of Intuit QuickBooks Online Nonprofit Edition

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2018 Review of FUND E-Z Nonprofit Accounting

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2018 Review of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

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2018 Review of GMS Nonprofit and Governmental Accounting