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February 26, 2019 

6108 The Power of PCPS in 2010 In 2010, the power of the AICPA Private Companies Practice Section (PCPS) was once again put to work to help make thousands of practitioners more successful. CPAs and accounting firms turn to PCPS for the strategic resources and information they need to better manage their practices, tackle their...…

February 26, 2019 

6062   RHONDA — These don’t have to go in this order… just what works best for the layout. About BQE Software Inc. BQE Software Inc. was founded in 1995, and has grown into the leading developer of time and expense tracking, billing and project management solutions for professional services firms. Its flagship BillQuick system...…

February 26, 2019 

4780 Teresa Mackintosh, CPA.CITP Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas — Professional, Tax & Accounting, Thomson Reuters Teresa joined Thomson Reuters in 1996, and is responsible for driving profitable growth of all software and services for the professional accounting market across the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Prior to her promotion to Senior...…

February 26, 2019 

7009 CCH 2010 Year in Review Across the entire suite of our solutions, CCH in 2010 invested in new and enhanced products, with great customer adoption and industry recognition. We continued to deliver innovative solutions to tax and accounting professionals, enabling firms to work anytime, anywhere. We delivered these new capabilities by building on our...…

February 26, 2019 

  It’s late January, which, for many accounting professionals (particularly those in public practice), means you’re ramping up for the busiest time of the year — 1040 season. Although not all firms focus equally on individual tax compliance services, there are few who are immune to this annual uptick in workload, since even those with...…

February 26, 2019 

February 26, 2019 

5115 characters Fix it or replace it? Every day, we face this question. As business owners and advisors to our clients, we could make an infinite number of things better. The choice is ours. For some, the answer is “intuitive;” and for others, it involves detailed analysis. The risk, of course, is the time and...…

February 26, 2019 

With Intuit claiming a retail market share of 85 percent or higher in the small business accounting software market (according to http://fi.intuit.com/whyconnect and http://bit.ly/INTU2QFY10), many accountants and clients assume that QuickBooks has a monopoly over the small business accounting space. Although some clients may find that QuickBooks meets their accounting software needs, practitioners should also...…

February 26, 2019 

18,576 characters   Today’s small businesses are learning how to run lean all of the time. This isn’t necessarily a new reality, but the tight economy of the past few years has certainly caused small business owners to be increasingly aware of every dime they spend and every one they bring in. Both of these...…

February 26, 2019 

Income statements and balance sheets. These basics of financial reporting have been around for what seems like forever, so why change your tool for producing these now? That’s an easy question to answer, actually — new demands by business for better information and advances in technology make change possible. Consider the case of FRx, a...…

February 26, 2019 

9826 As you prepare for the coming tax season, now is a great time to look at the “health” of your clients’ QuickBooks files. At The Sleeter Group, we’ve always encouraged consultants to perform quarterly data file analysis engagements to make sure client-entered data is clean so the financial statements and business management reports are...…

February 26, 2019 

2955 I suspect the majority of you have never heard of the small business accounting application called Sage Simply Accounting (Simply). Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of this application. So why is it that so many have not heard of it? The application has primarily been promoted in the Canadian market, where it...…