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September 5, 2014 

Column: Successful Small Business Consulting From the Dec. 2010 Issue For years now, I have been evangelizing the opportunities out there for Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the SMB market. But there is a big difference between a true “VAR” and an accountant/consultant who starts acting as a reseller or sales agent for software solutions....…

Doug Sleeter

September 5, 2014 

Column: Technology in Practice From the December 2010 Issue It’s that time of year again, when we are asked to gaze into our crystal balls and share the trends that we feel will impact your firms in the year ahead with the intent of assisting you in making more effective IT decisions in 2011. The...…

Roman Kepczyk

September 5, 2014 

Column: From the Trenches From the Dec. 2010 Issue 2010 was a year of significant hardware changes. Our hardware recommendations now include Intel i7 processor chips, USB 3.0, solid state or hybrid drives, and the initial implementation of touch-screen monitors. In fact, we have no hardware recommendation for 2010 that is the same as 2009....…

Randy Johnston

September 5, 2014 

Column: The Bleeding Edge From the December 2010 Issue Economists and consumers could point to a few bright spots in an otherwise bleak year, and the technology sector was certainly one of them. In a year marked by continuing high unemployment, upside-down mortgages, the largest oil spill in history and another lackluster finish by the...…

Dave McClure

September 5, 2014 

800-968-8900 www.cs.thomsonreuters.com Planner CS provides professional tax planning and analysis of federal, state and non-resident state income tax using multiple scenario-based plans, and includes tools for client communication and professional reporting. The program is a part of the Thomson Reuters CS and ES suites of professional tax and accounting products and offers direct integration with...…

September 5, 2014 

8230 800-237-8435 www.CertiflexDimension.com The Versatile Group offers professional accounting and business management systems under the CertiflexDimension brand. The company’s professional Client Write-Up program and integrated business accounting series includes full GL, AR and AP, along with integrated reconciliation features, after-the-fact payroll, comprehensive financials, reporting, advanced journal management utilities and multiple data import options. The system...…

September 5, 2014 

With a tight economy and creeping growth causing more and more Americans to be more miserly in their spending or to at least budget more stringently, they often overlook a potential for significant savings. Or perhaps they don’t think about the potential until it’s too late. Unfortunately, the latter is likely the case because they…

September 5, 2014 

800-968-8900 www.cs.thomsonreuters.com Thomson Reuters debuted its new Accounting CS system earlier this year, offering a unified professional application that combines write-up, trial balance, financials reporting, and live and after-the-fact payroll processing and compliance system. It also includes web-based client-side accounting that integrates directly with the professional package, thereby enabling greater collaboration, streamlining write-up and payroll...…

September 5, 2014 

6411 800-292-2962 www.cyma.com CYMA Systems has developed business and professional accounting systems since 1980, with current solutions that include Client Write-Up, business accounting, non-profit fund accounting, payroll, inventory management and job costing. The company’s CYMA IV Financial Management System is the core of each of its programs, including the write-up system, which has available modules...…

September 5, 2014 

Accountants love numbers, but they also love to slash the numbers in a budget as much as they enjoy adding them. Unfortunately, two of the areas usually cut are marketing and public relations because they are often perceived as overhead expenses in which the return on investment (ROI) is hard to prove.

September 5, 2014 

3680 www.accountantsworld.com Website Relief by AccountantsWorld is a website building solution that integrates into the AccountantsWorld Power Practice suite of web-based applications. The service has been online since 2002 and currently boasts about 2,400 websites for accountants and tax preparers. Typical sites have about 20 pages, and can consist of a maximum of 40 pages,...…

September 5, 2014 

CS.ThomsonReuters.com Thomson Reuters offers a suite of software products and services for tax and accounting professionals, including the Web Builder CS website building service. Thomson Reuters has offered website building services designed specifically for tax and accounting professionals for over 10 years. With more than 2,500 firms currently using Web Builder CS, Thomson Reuters has...…