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Welcome to Tax Season 2026

Taxes January 26, 2026 

Welcome to Tax Season 2026

The IRS today opened the 2026 tax filing season and began accepting and processing federal individual income tax returns for tax year 2025.

 2012 Review of ECR Software Corp. Catapult 5.1.1

July 27, 2012 

2012 Review of ECR Software Corp. Catapult 5.1.1

ECR Software Corp. — Catapult 5.1.1800-211-1172www.ecrs.com Best Fit: Catapult is truly designed for a specific part of the retail industry, and with touch screen technology standard on all of its systems, it truly works with high-volume specialty retailers of any size. Strengths Touch screen monitor is standard Product contains unlimited customization capability Little training necessary...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

 2012 Review of CPASiteSolutions CompleteWebSuite

July 27, 2012 

2012 Review of CPASiteSolutions CompleteWebSuite

CPASiteSolutions — CompleteWebSuitewww.CPASiteSolutions.com Best Fit Firms that want a site from one the best template-based web builders along with comprehensive web marketing services, and firms that want to build a website quickly. CPASiteSolutions boasts that it only needs 15 minutes of a CPA’s time and that the dedicated webmaster often completes the site within 2...…

Dustin Wheeler

 Integrating Ecommerce and Shopping Carts with QuickBooks… How Hard Could it Be?

July 27, 2012 

Integrating Ecommerce and Shopping Carts with QuickBooks… How Hard Could it Be?

Is it too much for me to ask for a well-integrated shopping cart for our QuickBooks clients? I’m on a mission to find a well-integrated shopping cart solution for our QuickBooks clients. In The Sleeter Group’s blog (www.sleeter.com/blog/2012/01), Jim Savage, our ecommerce expert, recently posted about “Ecommerce, Shopping Carts and QuickBooks.” In that post, he discusses several...…

Doug Sleeter

 Xero Takes Big Bite of Cloud Accounting Market: Hits 100,000 Paying Users

July 26, 2012 

Xero Takes Big Bite of Cloud Accounting Market: Hits 100,000 Paying Users

Cloud-based accounting is taking off as small businesses and their public accountants, see the benefits of simplifying workflow, invoicing, payroll and other functions. One of the most rapidly growing companies in the space is Xero, which announced today they now have more than 100,000 paying customers. About 50,000 of those were added just in the...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 Adaptive Planning Introduces Adaptive Discovery for Financial Analysis

July 24, 2012 

Adaptive Planning Introduces Adaptive Discovery for Financial Analysis

Adaptive Planning has introduced a new product, Adaptive Discovery, a cloud-based data visualization system for companies and nonprofits. The systemm part of the Adaptive Planning suite, provides a visually intuitive and interactive way for business managers to access, analyze, and explore key financial and operational data. Adaptive Discovery is designed to give CFOs, sales VPs,...…