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Column: Healthcare Costs Have Small Businesses in an Impossible Bind
The healthcare affordability crisis is crushing everyone, but it has become downright calamitous for small businesses.
February 26, 2019
Seven Tips To Help You Keep Work & Life In Balance During Tax Season and Beyond
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
Printable IRS Form W-2 for 2014
February 26, 2019
Time is Money: A Case for SaaS
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
Peachtree: The Other Small Business Management Software Application
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
Strengthen Your Practice by Enhancing Your Clients’ Productivity
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
The Changing Face of Financial Reporting for Middle Market ERP — 6370
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
QuickBooks Data File Analysis With the Client Data Review Tool
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
Sage Expands Small Business Accounting Offering in United States
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...…
February 26, 2019
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business — ProSystem fx Engagement
Characters 6139 800-PFX-9998 www.CCHGroup.com CCH’s ProSystem fx Engagement is designed to be used as an integrated part of the vendor’s comprehensive suite of professional accounting, tax and practice management systems, providing advanced workflow tools, collaboration capabilities, automation of tasking, integration with external programs and strong oversight for audit managers. The system includes the core features...…
February 26, 2019
Audit Engagement Tools
Characters 8192 AuditConfirmations LLC www.auditconfirmations.com AuditConfirmations offers an electronic bank confirmation (deposit and loan accounts) process targeted specifically to tax and accounting firms. AuditConfirmations allows firms to electronically submit bank confirmations to any bank using the bank’s contact name and email address. The process works by having the auditor create an audit confirmation request, which...…
February 26, 2019
CaseWare International Inc. — CaseWare Working Papers
characters 6139 800-267-1317 www.caseware.com The Working Papers system from CaseWare is an engagement management system that offers powerful assurance and reporting functions, along with tools for streamlining workflow, multi-staff collaboration, folder lockdowns and roll-forwards. The system includes full reporting options; integration with third-party accounting, tax, productivity and research tools; and is both GAAP and IFRS...…
February 26, 2019
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business — ProSystem fx Fixed Assets
6486 800-PFX-9998 www.tax.cchgroup.com Designed for use by accounting and tax professionals, ProSystem fx Fixed Assets is a comprehensive tracking, management and reporting program that offers extensive depreciation calculation capabilities, projections, asset-life events and reporting. The program is part of the ProSystem fx Suite of professional applications, which includes integrated tax, write-up, trial balance, practice management,...…