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September 6, 2012 

Designed for the small to medium sized business, PlanGuru gives you multi-year capabilities and sophisticated budgeting and forecasting methods all without having to create or maintain formulas. PlanGuru’s simple, intuitive interface and integration…

September 6, 2012 

ACL selects Laurie Schultz, ACL President and former Sage executive, as Chief Executive Officer.

Taija Sparkman

September 5, 2012 

Bill.com announced that a new whitepaper by Barlow Research Associates, Inc. released today shows financial institutions could increase profitability by integrating with accounting software used by their small business customers.

Taija Sparkman

August 31, 2012 

As tax season approaches, practitioners can expect the IRS to quickly expand its audit focus to flow-through entities, according to an IRS official.

Jim Buttonow

August 31, 2012 

Consumer technologies such as the iPad and iPhone are driving the use of electronic signatures using tools like DocuSign and Adobe EchoSign.

Jim Boomer

August 30, 2012 

CCH Small Firm Services holds live demonstrations of ATX 2012 at the Midwest Accounting & Finance Show.

Taija Sparkman

August 30, 2012 

The leaders of tomorrow aren’t born tomorrow. They are already among us, making moves today. They have the skills, passion and tools to ensure success in the future. They recognize good ideas and implement sound strategies. They are determined and persistent. They are this year’s 40 Under 40, and they aren’t waiting until tomorrow to...…

Taija Sparkman

August 30, 2012 

Time Management is Essential to Productivity, Whether Billing by the Hour or Not The past decade has seen monumental changes in the way accounting practices run. What initially started as the ideal of the paperless office, evolved into a workflow revolution that has seen increasing use of electronic communication with clients, online collaboration, automated workpapers...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

August 30, 2012 

ImagineTime, Inc. — ImagineTime Practice Management877-520-1525 www.imaginetime.com Best Fit: Small and mid-sized professional practices looking for integration of time and billing with their tax compliance system. Strengths Integration with many professional tax systems and QuickBooks Interface and navigation similar to Microsoft Office programs Calendar and appointment synching with Outlook Multi-staff calendar views Potential Limitations No...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

August 29, 2012 

The “Cloud” and hosted solutions continue to garner interest amongst accounting firms, but there is a lot of confusion about the types of hosting, available applications, and the overall reasons for firms to consider hosted solutions.

Roman Kepczyk

August 29, 2012 

You need to be thinking about your clients, firm and the technology you use to serve those clients. Hardware, software, data, procedures and people all work together to transform data into information.

Randy Johnston

August 29, 2012 

As a practitioner running a busy firm each day, just like you, I want to know what’s on the horizon in relation to technology. Technology and workflow are at the heart of a well-run firm, so it’s important to know where vendors plan to take us over the next few years.

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA