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November 29, 2011 

Intuit, Inc. — Tax Import for Lacerte and ProSeries

800-200-7599 http://lacerte.intuit.com/products/tax-import http://proseries.intuit.com/products/tax-import   2012 Overall Rating 4.75 Best Firm Fit Firms using the Lacerte and ProSeries tax programs seeking to reduce the time spent on organizing source documents and data entry. Strengths The new Pre-Import Review feature provides a side-by-side view of electronic values and images from source documents. Direct download provides an easy...…

Dustin Wheeler

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November 26, 2011 

CCH 2012 Executive Prediction & 2011 Year in Review

Mike Sabbatis, President and CEO of CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business, shares his perspectives on the past year, and on the changes he sees coming for 2012 and the years to come.   Click here to view as a PDF. Download

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November 26, 2011 

BQE 2012 Executive Prediction & 2011 Year in Review

The CEO and Founder of BQE Software, Shafat Qazi, shares his perspectives on the past year, and on the changes he sees coming for 2012 and the years to come.   Click here to view as a PDF. Download

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November 26, 2011 

AICPA 2012 Executive Prediction & 2011 Year in Review

James Metzler, the AICPA’s Vice President for Small Firm Interests, shares his perspectives on the past year, and on the changes he sees coming for 2012 and the years to come.   Click here to view as a PDF. Download

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November 23, 2011 

Safe Keeping… Even in a Digital World, a Safe is a Good Idea

We’ve covered the issue of disaster preparation and business continuity several times over the years, especially after Hurricane Katrina. Accounting is a technology-driven profession, so we’ve generally approached the topic of preparation by focusing on subjects such as remote backup and using web-based systems to allow a firm to keep working even if disaster strikes....…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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November 23, 2011 

SurePrep — 1040SCAN Pro, 1040SCAN Organize

800-805-8582 www.sureprep.com   2012 Overall Rating 4.75 Best Firm Fit Firms where more than one person is involved in the tax return preparation process with multiple levels of sign-off. It’s also a good fit for firms using the supported tax software who are willing to use SurePrep’s proprietary data-entry and SPbinder tools. Strengths SPbinder has...…

Dustin Wheeler

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November 23, 2011 

GruntWorx, LLC

800-291-2136 www.copanion.com   2012 Overall Rating 4.5 Best Firm Fit Firms that want a user-friendly solution for receiving an organized and bookmarked PDF of source documents, regardless of the firm’s tax and document management software. Firms using the supported tax software will benefit from the Populate product. Firms using the Drake professional tax software should...…

Dustin Wheeler

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November 23, 2011 

Thomson Reuters — Source Document Processing

800-968-8900 CS.ThomsonReuters.com   2012 Overall Rating 4.25 Best Firm Fit Firms using other applications of the CS Professional Suite. Specifically, a FileCabinet CS license is required for the labeling and organizing function. An UltraTax CS license is required for the data extraction and import into the tax software. Strengths Integration throughout the CS Professional Suite....…

Dustin Wheeler

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November 22, 2011 

CCH a Wolters Kluwer business — ProSystem fx Scan

800-739-9998 CCHGroup.com   2012 Overall Rating 4.75 Best Firm Fit Firms using other ProSystem fx applications to prepare individual income tax returns, as well as firms that want the OCR and organizing processes to run on premise with a fast turnaround time. Strengths With the right hardware and recommended scanning procedures, the OCR processing should...…

Dustin Wheeler