877-245-5484 www.Bill4Time.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.5 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized firms wanting to do all time and billing in the cloud. Strengths Many options for capturing time, including a desktop widget & mobile apps. Easy integration with PayPal for collecting online payments. Scheduling integration with Outlook, Google Calendar & iCal. Billing rate […]
855-687-1024 www.BillQuick.com 2011 Overall Rating 5 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized firms. Strengths Feature-rich SaaS version available, which can synchronize automatically with the desktop product. Native iPhone & Android apps. Free Lite version available. Tracks personal time off hours & approvals. The most extensive integration options with accounting software among products reviewed. Strong […]
877-520-1525 www.imaginetime.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.25 Best Firm Fit Small firms, especially those taking advantage of the tax software integration available. Strengths Ribbon interface similar to Microsoft Office. Integration with tax software & QuickBooks. Synchronization with Outlook, including viewing staff calendars side-by-side. Potential Limitations No SaaS version. Summary & Pricing ImagineTime is a time […]
888-340-6425 www.Chrometa.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.5 Best Firm Fit Small firms with simple billing needs, or firms of any size for timekeeping. Strengths Innovative system for automatically tracking time. Integration with several accounting programs and other billing programs. SaaS software that can aggregate time from multiple PCs. Potential Limitations Limited invoicing capabilities. Works […]
888-849-8059 www.abaksoftware.com 2011 Overall Rating 4 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized accounting firms, especially those integrating with certain accounting software (Sage Simply Accounting, Sage Accpac ERP, Avantage and Acomba). Strengths Three-level approval system for time & expenses. Web-based interface for a few of the program’s functions. Potential Limitations Help file is difficult […]
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a collection of tactics that are applied to your website to help it rank better in the results when people use searches to find people and businesses they need. SEO, as an industry, literally changes every day. Search engines, like Google, constantly tweak how they rank and present search findings. These very sophisticated algorithms (mathematical formulas that rank websites) are revised about 500 times per year.
Accountants and accounting firms have long suffered from the false stereotype of being stodgy, even predictable and boring. Even more so, the auditor: that truly numbers-focused researcher of data whose sole purpose is to determine the propriety of an organization’s financial reporting and their internal controls over financial reporting. Perhaps only actuaries are more maligned in their public perception.
As the regular readers of this column know, I like to reference rock’n’roll from the 70s. This time, as I sit down to write my column about listening to your customers, one of my favorite songs from the Wings comes to mind.