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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

2016 Review of Client Portals for Accounting Firms

Although accounting firms have typically used email to send files to their clients, stricter confidentiality requirements and difficulty in transmitting large files have made email usage difficult, if not impossible in most situations. Portals offer a ...

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Accounting

2016 Review of SmartVault

A great solution for firms using QuickBooks, SmartVault offers both bi-direction portal capability as well as complete document storage capability. A QuickBooks plug-in is available that allows users to scan a document into the system and sync the ...

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Financial Reporting

2016 Review of W2 Mate from Real Business Solutions

W2 Mate is an easily affordable product from Real Business Solutions that provides accountants and businesses with the ability to prepare, import, file and print both W-2’s and 1099 forms. The vendor also offers a long-list of add-on modules to ...

Payroll

2016 Review of AccountantsWorld After-the-Fact Payroll

After-the-Fact Payroll from AccountantsWorld is designed specifically for professional accountants as a payroll system that offers excellent year-end tax reporting capability as well.

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Income Tax

2016 Review of W-2/1099 Forms Filer - 1099-Etc.

W-2/1099 Forms Filer is part of 1099-ETC, which includes a variety of modules that provide form processing functionality, including E-Filer, Forms Filer Plus, 1042-S Filer, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Filer. W-2/1099 Forms Filer is considered ...

Payroll

2016 Review of W-2/1099 Filer From EG Systems

Payroll

2016 Review of W2 / 1099 From Wolters Kluwer Small Firm Segment

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Income Tax

2016 Review of Tenenz Laser Link

Laser-Link, from Tenenz, is an affordably priced year-end form processing and compliance solution. The product is designed as a stand-alone solution, and offers easy year-end compliance for accountants.

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Income Tax

2016 Review of Magtax W-2 and 1099 Filing System

Magtax, from American Riviera Software is available in two versions; Standard and Professional, and also offers a foreign reporting version as well. Also available is an Affordable Care Act add-on module to process ACA forms 1094/1095.

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Payroll

2016 Review of Professional Payroll Systems

Whether you’re looking to bring payroll back in-house for your own firm, or are looking to add payroll services to your firm’s menu offerings, spend some time looking at the products included in this review, download a software trial or view a demo, an

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Payroll

2016 Review of MAG-FILER

MAG-FILER, from Spokane Computer is a product designed to both process and file W-2’s and 1099’s, supporting both paper and electronic filing. A complete system, no additional modules are required in order to run the product.

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Payroll

2016 Review of Payroll Mate from Real Business Solutions

Payroll Mate, from real Business Solutions is an on-premise payroll product that can support up to 10 companies that have up to 75 employees. For larger businesses and accounting firms, there is an add-on option that will support up to 100 companies ...