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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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Accounting

2016 Review of Travel Expense Management Systems

If you’re ready to take a look at expense management software, take a few minutes to determine exactly what your firm or business needs help with – be it flights, hotels, client entertainment, meals, or rental cars. Having an organized way of ...

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2016 Review of Tallie Expense Report Software

Tallie, from SpringAhead, is designed for small to mid-sized companies. Available as both a SaaS/Cloud based product as well as for iOS and Android phones and tables, Tallie offers a pay-as-you option, where users simply pay as the product is used, making

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Thomson Reuters FileCabinet CS

FileCabinet CS is part of Thomson Reuters CS Professional Suite of applications designed for professional accounting firms. Thomson Reuters offers three licensing options; On-Premise, Virtual Office, and SaaS, so users can choose the deployment method ...

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Firm Management

ScanWriter Automates Data Entry for QuickBooks Users

ScanWriter works with both QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online, the product can be used with any TWAIN compatible scanner, or customers can purchase a compatible scanner directly from Personable if desired.

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Document Management and Storage Systems

How many hours have you spent searching for document that is nowhere to be found? According to the Wall Street Journal, the average executive wastes six weeks every year searching for documents that are lost or misplaced. It’s been estimated that one ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Drake Documents

Drake Documents is a basic document management system which is included in Drake Software Tax applications. The product is available as a desktop installation, or as a hosted desktop, which provides easy anywhere access. Drake Documents completely ...

Firm Management

2016 Review of Thomson Reuters GoFileRoom

GoFileRoom is designed specifically for accounting and tax professionals and offers easy integration with other Thomson Reuters products. The product is available as an online version only, and works exclusively with the Internet Explorer browser.

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Firm Management

2016 Review of eFileCabinet Document Management

eFileCabinet is available in both on-premise and cloud deployment, and is also accessible via iOS and Android devices. Both versions of the product have been significantly enhanced, with a streamlined user interface for easier system navigation.

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Cabinet SAFE Cloud

Cabinet SAFE Cloud offers a cloud-based, enterprise level document management system that is hosted by the vendor. The product is also available as a standard on-premise application (Cabinet SAFE), and as a mobile app, that is compatible with both iOS ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of Doc.It Suite

Doc.It offers users both on-premise installation, as well as a cloud-based product that can be hosted by third parties. Along with flexible deployment options, Doc-It offers mobile integration, so users can access the product remotely using a laptop, ...

Firm Management

2016 Review of AccountantsWorld Cloud Cabinet

Cloud Cabinet, part of AccountantsWorld Power Practice suite of products, offers users an easily navigated, completely cloud-based document storage/management system. Cloud Cabinet is completely cloud-based, Cloud Cabinet allows firms to store and ...

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Firm Management

2016 Review of SmartVault Document Storage

SmartVault is an online document storage application that also offers a secure portal feature for file sharing. The SmartVault Dashboard is where all activity is initiated from, and the interface offers quick access to system functions such as Clients ...