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Is a new tax vendor coming to town?
By Isaac M. O'Bannon, Editor - Friday April 24, 2009A couple of weeks ago, I received a press release from Commercial Logic, Inc., a company that's been around the accounting space since 1981, mostly offering practice management systems and such. The gist of the announcement is that they've partnered with Advanced Professional Solutions (APS), which apparently has had a strong user base in the UK (20% of top 100 firms), New Zealand (60%) and Australia (70%) for nearly 20 years. CLI is going to be the U.S. distributor of that company's suite of practice management, business intelligence, CRM, document management and business process automation software, having helped them adjust the programs appropriately to U.S. compliance requirements, accounting principles, workflow processes and... -
Technology Tools for Better Client Service
By , - Tuesday April 14, 2009From the April/May 2009 Issue “To help as many people as possible use technology in the way that benefits them most.” Not everyone gets to share their personal mission statement with so many people, but as a frequent reader of this column, you know that I have had the privilege of living my mission statement. More importantly, I take the responsibility very personally and directly for each of you. Before I stake my reputation on a technology, I have to believe it does several things: provides a solution to a legitimate problem, has a reasonable cost/benefit ratio, and can truly make things easier. I won’t claim to be right on every item, but if a baseball player bats .400, they are considered a star. With that in mind...
