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
June 23, 2009
In the upcoming July issue of The CPA Technology Advisor, I’ve written a column that discusses why few tax and accounting professionals are using an online tax preparation system for their client returns. Considering how popular online tax prep is for do-it-yourselfers, I think it’s a curious situation. Some might blame it on the old...…
June 10, 2009
A few weeks ago, I posted an article here about the possibility of a new professional tax prep vendor coming to the market (www.cpatechviews.com/2009/04/is-a-new-tax-vendor-coming-to-town). That was after I discovered that CLI, Inc., a long-time vendor of practice management systems for accounting firms, had become the U.S. distributor of the APS suite of professional products. The...…
June 2, 2009
Intuit has reached an agreement to acquire PayCycle for $170 million. The company will be integrated into Intuit’s Payroll division. PayCycle’s simple-but-thorough online payroll compliance system, geared generally toward smaller small businesses (although they claim to be able to support up to 150 employees). The system offers automated reminders on federal and state tax payments...…
June 2, 2009
Hey, CPATechViews followers… the 2009 Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards were just announced at the California Accounting and Business Show & Conference in Los Angeles on Monday evening. We Tweeted the results live during the presentation ceremony (www.Twitter.com/cpatechadvisor). This year’s winners are Bill.com for its self-branded online payables management system; Capital Confirmation, Inc. for...…
May 22, 2009
Imagine a world with no computers. We might be there again someday soon, but not in the 1850s pastoral sense of “no computers.” Instead, more along the line that we won’t need boxes near or around our desks to perform all of the tasks that we currently rely on such boxes to do. With the...…
April 25, 2009
A 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...…
April 16, 2009
Welcome to CPATechViews.com, a blog covering technologies that affect tax and accounting professionals. CPATechViews.com features posts by practicing professionals, technology consultants and the editorial staff of The CPA Technology Advisor, the profession’s most trusted source for technology information. While this is the first blog entry for CPATechViews.com, The CPA Technology Advisor has long enjoyed a...…
April 14, 2009
From the April/May 2009 Issue Much of the buzz of the past few years has been over the continuing paperless practice movement and the phenomenon of “cloud computing.” Pretty much everyone knows the meaning of paperless; it’s basically self-explanatory. The term cloud computing, on the other hand, may seem somewhat mysterious. This article isn’t a...…
Technology April 17, 2008
From April 2008: I like to think that I am cautiously skeptical — I want to see how something will fit into an existing workflow or, if it requires changing the processes, how much pain it will cause during this transition.
November 1, 2006
With recent natural disasters and other catastrophies in the news, we've received many requests from you, our readers, seeking advise in developing a disaster recovery plan to help your business or those of your clients survive an unexpected major event.
May 4, 2005
Tax Analysts offers several online tax research products that comprise its Tax Analysts Web Services, including the federal modules, Tax Notes Today, Tax Notes, Basic Federal Research Library and Complete Federal Research Library. The company also offers CD-based tools that include the Internal Revenue Manual Disc and OneDisc Research Library. The various modules of the...…
