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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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Firm Management

ClockShark Offers Enhanced Time Management for QuickBooks Users

ClockShark is designed to automate the timekeeping process for traditionally difficult to track industries such as construction and field service businesses. ClockShark is web-accessible from any computer with an Internet connection as well as from ...

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2016 Review of Tax Research Systems

While most tax systems have the capability to handle standard returns for clients, the way people earn and invest their money has changed dramatically in recent years. While there are numerous clients who receive a standard W-2 at the end of the year ...

2016 Review of TheTaxBook - WebLibrary Plus

TheTaxBook offers a variety of tools designed to streamline research activities for tax accountants. Their top seller is the WebLibrary Plus, which offers access to the research system from anywhere. WebLibrary is an abbreviated versus of the same ...

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2016 Review of Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Research Platform

Checkpoint Research Platform is an online research system from Thomson Reuters. Checkpoint provides easy access to recent tax laws and primary source materials for federal, state, and international tax, as well as access to tax planning, corporate ...

2016 Review of CCH IntelliConnect Tax Research

IntelliConnect, from CCH/Wolters Kluwer offers a web-based research application accessible through common web browsers as well as mobile devices. This year’s release offers a series of product enhancements which include an updated user interface for ...

Technology

2016 Review of Tax Document Automation Systems

While tax document automation software can automatically populate relevant information on tax returns, the products also offer digital PDF workpapers, allowing users to easily create binders for each client following a specific order, so all binders ...

Accounting

2016 Review of Citrix ShareFile

Citrix ShareFile is a good fit for both accounting firms and businesses looking for a scalable product that offers online document storage as well as bi-directional file sharing with clients and employees.

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Cloudvara Cloud Hosting

Cloudvara is a custom application hosting service that currently offers a number of applications for hosting. The product is well suited for small businesses including accounting firms that need only a small number of applications hosted.

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Accounting

2016 Review of Hosting Providers for Accounting Firms

No longer do business owners have to choose between an online version and a desktop version of a product. Using an application hosting service, users can access their favorite products remotely.

Firm Management

2016 Review of Cloudnine Realtime Hosting Services

Cloudnine Realtime is an excellent solution for accounting firms as well as other businesses including law firms and consulting groups. The product is scalable; offering 4 editions of the product, making it suitable for the ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Xcentric Cloud Hosted Solutions

Xcentric offers convenient system access from any location, and also offers access to the network using a variety of devices, such as Windows tablets, Blackberry devices, Apple and Android devices, and smartphones. There is a slight fee associated ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of InsynQ Cloud Hosting

InsynQ hosts a variety of popular applications and can host all editions of QuickBooks, including QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, and QuickBooks Enterprise. InsynQ can also host Sage products such as Sage 50, Sage 100, and Sage 300.