Isaac M. O'Bannon is the managing editor and digital content manager for CPA Practice Advisor (www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com), drawing on two decades of experience covering the areas of professional accounting, taxation, business productivity and consumer technologies.
Prior to CPA Practice Advisor, O'Bannon was a consultant at firms in San Francisco, Denver and Tulsa, serving clients that included Logitech, Polycom, Hilti, Microsoft, the Stanford Research Institute, the University of Oklahoma's College of Engineering and other technology leaders. He is a U.S. Navy veteran.
Email: isaac.obannon - @ - cpapracticeadvisor.com
November 16, 2015
ProSystem fx Scan is a tax document automation system that offers optical character recognition (OCR) functions for identifying scanned-in tax forms and extracting data from the forms. It can be used as an integrated part of CCH’s ProSystem fx Suite ...
November 16, 2015
GruntWorx offers a completely web-based tax automation solution that helps firms create an editable and annotatable PDF tax binder out of their client’s scanned-in paper source documents.
November 16, 2015
SurePrep is the most experienced in this market and has been offering tax automation services for more than a decade. The system’s automatic population features integrate to fill out client tax returns in many professional tax systems, and the company ...
November 16, 2015
Source Document Processing is an optional tax document workflow and automation system for users of UltraTax CS and FileCabinet CS, providing a web-based system that helps organize client tax source documents into PDF workbinders and uses optical ...
November 15, 2015
When preparing client tax returns for any type of entity, accurate data is obviously a necessity, but finding ways to streamline it, and even improve accuracy, is the goal of tax document automation systems. While there are several such programs on the ma
October 8, 2015
Florida has been in the news a lot recently, and probably not for reasons that promoters of the Sunshine State would prefer. The spotlight is because hundreds of people have been arrested over the past year for identity theft crimes that involved filing bogus income tax returns for thousands of taxpayers, and then having the…
September 10, 2015
This year’s 40 Under 40 honorees are among the best and brightest talent in the accounting profession. They are all active in the professional community, as well as in their local communities, where many are small business owners and employers.
August 13, 2015
Resolving issue for clients with IRS often proved difficult, according to AICPA.
August 7, 2015
The National Society of Accountants (NSA) has sent a letter to all Members of Congress urging them to enact legislation to support the “Tax Practitioners Bill of Rights,” which NSA issued on June 16, 2015.
July 22, 2015
Safeguarding one’s finances in case of a catastrophic event is an often overlooked aspect of disaster preparedness. To help people mitigate potential damages and lessen the financial blow of a disaster, The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), American ...
July 22, 2015
Specifically, the API is designed to connect with software providers that offer donor management software, church management software, online donation platforms, or payroll software.
July 22, 2015
Thomson Reuters has released a special report on school district auditing to address the unique characteristics of planning and performing audits for public school districts and provides tips to help professionals perform effective and efficient school...
