2007 Tax Season Survival Guide

From the January-March 2007 Issue

Every January, The CPA Technology Advisor provides this special Tax
Season Survival Guide, offering a review of tax research applications,
useful tips on preparing for the upcoming tax preparation season, and additional
features and tax-specific resources. This year’s Guide covers a variety of subjects,
from tips for selecting scanners and paperless office systems, to strengthening
storage and backup protocols, and insight into emerging technologies that will
help shape productivity in accounting practices in the years to come. Additionally,
contributors Dave McClure and Roman Kepczyk, CPA.CITP provide their technology
predictions for 2007. We hope this guide helps you prepare for the busy season
and year to come.

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Busy as an Accountant During Tax Season: It’s that time of year — time for tax,
audit, new business plans, new technology implementation and the cold
of winter spreading over the northern half of the United States.; Read Full
Review

Emerging Technologies: Sometimes, developments in technology seem to be
creeping along. At other times, the changes are occurring at a gallop.
The emerging technologies that will affect your business for the next
three to five years need to be understood and exploited. What are the
top emerging technologies?; Read Full
Review

IT Predictions for 2007 & Beyond: Evolutions of information technology have had a
profound impact on tax and accounting firm production processes leading
to almost completely digital processes as best practices in firms today.; Read Full
Review

Best Practices: Selecting a Scanner: With paperless and document storage initiatives
at firms and companies in full swing, one of the key components of any
efficient process is the scanner. Even though scanners have come a long
way since simple flatbeds, the choices and implementation can be overwhelming.; Read Full
Review

Best Practices: Paperless Office Planning: As each year passes and technology processes become
more advanced, paperless (or less paper) solutions are increasingly popular
throughout businesses of all kinds.; Read Full
Review

Free for the Taking: What Can Google do for You?: Apparently, there is such a thing as a free lunch
— at least in Google Land. The Internet search Goliath is offering
tax and accounting professionals and all other U.S. businesses free coupon
advertising on its Google Maps site.; Read Full
Review

Storage & Backup Are Only Getting More Important: Have you ever lost a critical file? How about a
whole hard drive? We have content management or paperless documents, Microsoft
Office documents from productivity applications, tax and audit files,
e-mail, business management solution or accounting files, pictures, music,
and more.; Read Full
Review

Vista: Ready to Launch, But Which Version?: Well, here it is the middle of October (when I’m
writing this column). The 2006 tax season is finally drawing to an end,
and the 2007 season is only three months away — now that’s
depressing.; Read Full
Review

What are You Missing?: As the professional tax preparation market has
seemed to grow smaller as a result of mergers and acquisitions, the capabilities
of most of the programs on the market have actually grown considerably,
with tax prep programs now offering all-in-one bundles where they used
to offer modules for the various filing entities.; Read Full
Review

It’s a New Year! Make a Resolution: Login please and enter your password. It’s
that demand you see so many times every day. Want to log onto your computer?
Enter your password. Check e-mail? Enter your password.; Read Full
Review

Tech Predictions for 2007: If the technology scene in 2005 was too boring
for words, 2006 was downright strange. The major re-write of the Telecommunications
Act, which would have overhauled video franchise rules nationwide…; Read Full
Review

Tax Research Review: The tax library of 2007 represents a time of transition
for tax research products — a time when research products have begun
to deliver on the promises of dynamic linking of research materials. Tax
research products have evolved greatly — changes to be measured
in terms of light years, moving from print media to CD-based systems…; Read Full
Review

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