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July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit: Professional tax & accounting firms who wish to outsource their IT infrastructure and desktop hosting functions to a specialized national provider which serves tax and accounting professionals exclusively. Strengths: Xcentric has experience hosting and supporting all of the major CPA firm application suites used by mid-sized CPA firms, including Thomson Reuters, Intuit,...…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit: Organizations who need to host a small number of non-standard applications in a high availability environment for access in multiple locations. Also, small to mid-sized firms (1-50 users) and small businesses who wish to host all of their applications on a cloud server. The company considers itself a “boutique” hosting firm that...…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit: Cloud9 hosts numerous applications and custom virtual servers for a wide range of industries, including accounting firms, law firms, and general small businesses. The company reports that 65% of their users work with professional tax and accounting firms. Also, as one of two providers in this review which offer hosting of Canadian...…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit:  Organizations looking for basic QuickBooks or multi-user Sage 50 hosting at an attractive price, or those who need hosted virtual servers. Also, firms with an IT department who need expertise in some, but not all, areas of hosting data online and would like an outside technical resource to serve as a backup...…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit: Firms who need a QuickBooks host and do not need automatic provisioning of configurations and/or new users. Strengths: The company offers the free Open Office productivity suite for those who need a simple, inexpensive tool for editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The only host which offers two factor authentication of users (e.g....…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit:Any company looking to leverage the efficiencies of the cloud to successfully grow their business. Also, firms who are looking to expand their practice and provide higher value to clients by offering them a mobile, collaborative, fully managed environment to access their desktop accounting applications. Strengths: The Company is an authorized host for...…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

Best Firm Fit: Organizations who use professional tax and accounting applications from multiple providers. InsynQ has a particularly strong reputation for successfully dealing with the challenges of hosting Lacerte Tax and ProSeries Tax Professional, which challenge many providers. Also, as the only provider in this review which offer hosting of Canadian tax and accounting applications...…

Brian Tankersley

July 29, 2013 

In the closing days of the Legislature last year, California Governor Jerry Brown helped forge a compromise on a sweeping overhaul of the workers' compensation insurance system and persuaded Democratic and Republican lawmakers to pass it into law.

July 29, 2013 

After a tradition of some 40 years of subsidizing local taxes, Gov. John Kasich and Republicans in the Ohio House and Senate applied the brakes.

July 29, 2013 

Three practitioners describe how their CS Professional Suite software has increased profits for their firms and improved client service. For more information on the CS Professional Suite, please visit: http://bit.ly/cspro13

July 29, 2013 

Rising focus on board governance, enterprise-wide systems, risk and technology; operational risk deemed area that needs further attention

Isaac M. O'Bannon

July 29, 2013 

Everson succeeds former U.S. Advisory Leader Dana Mcilwain, who is now PwC US Services Leader

Isaac M. O'Bannon