Technology

4780 Teresa Mackintosh, CPA.CITP Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas — Professional, Tax & Accounting, Thomson Reuters Teresa joined Thomson Reuters in 1996, and is responsible for driving profitable growth of all software and services for the professional accounting market across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Prior to her promotion to Senior […]

7009 CCH 2010 Year in Review Across the entire suite of our solutions, CCH in 2010 invested in new and enhanced products, with great customer adoption and industry recognition. We continued to deliver innovative solutions to tax and accounting professionals, enabling firms to work anytime, anywhere. We delivered these new capabilities by building on our […]

  It’s late January, which, for many accounting professionals (particularly those in public practice), means you’re ramping up for the busiest time of the year — 1040 season. Although not all firms focus equally on individual tax compliance services, there are few who are immune to this annual uptick in workload, since even those with […]

With Intuit claiming a retail market share of 85 percent or higher in the small business accounting software market (according to http://fi.intuit.com/whyconnect and http://bit.ly/INTU2QFY10), many accountants and clients assume that QuickBooks has a monopoly over the small business accounting space. Although some clients may find that QuickBooks meets their accounting software needs, practitioners should also […]

18,576 characters   Today’s small businesses are learning how to run lean all of the time. This isn’t necessarily a new reality, but the tight economy of the past few years has certainly caused small business owners to be increasingly aware of every dime they spend and every one they bring in. Both of these […]

Income statements and balance sheets. These basics of financial reporting have been around for what seems like forever, so why change your tool for producing these now? That’s an easy question to answer, actually — new demands by business for better information and advances in technology make change possible. Consider the case of FRx, a […]

Characters 8192 AuditConfirmations LLC www.auditconfirmations.com AuditConfirmations offers an electronic bank confirmation (deposit and loan accounts) process targeted specifically to tax and accounting firms. AuditConfirmations allows firms to electronically submit bank confirmations to any bank using the bank’s contact name and email address. The process works by having the auditor create an audit confirmation request, which […]

characters 6139 800-267-1317 www.caseware.com The Working Papers system from CaseWare is an engagement management system that offers powerful assurance and reporting functions, along with tools for streamlining workflow, multi-staff collaboration, folder lockdowns and roll-forwards. The system includes full reporting options; integration with third-party accounting, tax, productivity and research tools; and is both GAAP and IFRS […]