Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
November 16, 2015
Investors and Mid-Market Execs Confident About Access to Capital in 2016
Seventy percent of those surveyed believed that a strategic investor (competitor, corporate) would offer the greatest price for their business, compared to 30% believing the best deal would come from a financial investor (private equity, venture capital..
November 16, 2015
Finance Execs Seek More Effective Reporting and Disclosure Tools
Nearly three-quarters (74%) of the companies surveyed are taking action to improve their financial reports. Top improvement areas to the annual financial report (10-K) include management discussion and analysis (MD&A), the business section, risk ...
November 16, 2015
AICPA Partners With Lebanese Association of CPAs
The agreements between the AICPA and LACPA were signed in a ceremony earlier this month in Beirut attended by the Lebanese Minister of Finance and a representative of the World Bank.
November 16, 2015
Women Reach Partner in 43% of Small Accounting Firms
The highest ratio of female partners (43 percent) falls within the firm category of 2-10 CPAs, while the lowest (20 percent) is associated with the largest firms of 100-plus CPAs, the AICPA CPA Firm Gender Survey found.
November 16, 2015
AICPA and CIMA Add Accounting and Auditing Competencies to Learning Website
The AICPA-CIMA Competency and Learning website, a joint project of the AICPA and CIMA, initially launched earlier this year as a tool for Chartered Global Management Accountant® (CGMA®) designation holders to expand their skills and build rewarding ...
November 16, 2015
2015 Review of Intuit Lacerte and ProSeries Scan and Import
Tax Scan and Import is a module for firms using the ProSeries and Lacerte tax preparation systems, offering the ability to scan in client documents, with the system then using optical character recognition (OCR) to determine which forms were scanned ...
November 16, 2015
2015 Review of CCH ProSystem fx Scan with AutoFlow Technology
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
2015 Review of GruntWorx Organize, Populate and Trades
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
2015 Review of SurePrep 1040SCAN
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
2015 Review of Thomson Reuters UltraTax CS Source Document Processing
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 16, 2015
Investors Gain Confidence from CPA Financial Planners
The survey asked CPA financial planners to rate their clients’ confidence during the recent fluctuation on a scale of 1-5, (with 1 being the most fearful, 3 being neutral and 5 being the most confident). Established clients of CPA financial planners ...
November 16, 2015
IRS Not Doing Enough to Fight Business Tax ID Theft
TIGTA found that the IRS recognizes continued efforts are needed to develop and implement systemic processes to detect identity theft. To date, the IRS has taken actions that include defining business identity theft, creating procedures for IRS ...