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June 6, 2011 

CPA Practice Advisor Presents 8th Annual Awards in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES – June 6, 2011 – Accountants, tax professionals and their clients are increasingly turning to the cloud and SaaS-based technologies, and this year’s Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Awards highlighted many new workflow tools, programs and devices that aid in professional and business...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

June 6, 2011 

I think it’s fair to say that just about every accounting and tax practice in the country has given consideration to deploying a client portal in recent years. In fact, current estimates are that the number of firms that have a client portal in place is somewhere in the range of 20% to 40%.

John Higgins

June 6, 2011 

Imagine an accounting practice where you rarely met your clients, didn’t market to the local business community or belong to chambers of commerce … and don’t even have a sign on the office. You worked pretty much when you wanted to and tried to focus on anything but tax returns. This is probably nearly impossible...…

June 5, 2011 

Approved by the Illinois Department of Revenue Choice of e-file or Paper File Automatically calculates and validates the return QuickBooks Import option Option to import ST-2 from a text file Illinois Sales & Use Tax forms supported: ST-1, ST-2, PST-2, ST-1x, and ST-2x Business owners – it’s easy and fast, most users file in under...…

June 5, 2011 

June 1, 2011 

Column: Technology in Practice June 2011 Online Exclusive In most firms, the internal administrative department is among the last to adopt less paper technologies because the focus of most firms is on tax and audit production. Having said that, there are a lot of opportunities to update administrative processes to take advantage of today’s “less...…

Roman Kepczyk

May 26, 2011 

The term workflow as it relates to tax, accounting and other segments of information administration, is not new to business professionals. The use of technology tools to aid in the control of workflow is, however, on the rise and is helping many organizations of all sizes improve their back office operations. A basic definition of...…

Karl Egnatoff

May 25, 2011 

When it comes to work-life balance, family-friendly employers and general professional satisfaction, some companies are much better than others to work for. In a list of the top 25 corporations that have these attributes, Intuit ranked #24. Technology firms placed well on the list, including MITRE Consulting, SAS, Autodesk, Agilent and National Instruments. Other recognizable...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

May 25, 2011 

Nominate a professional for the 40 Under 40!

May 24, 2011 

Millions of people visit social media sites every day, and every day millions more are signing up to join them.

May 24, 2011 

Executives at small and midsize companies are making critical business decisions every day based on the information available to them.

May 24, 2011 

Many on-premises vendors claim that their cost of ownership over an extended period of ownership is lower than the cost of an equivalent cloud service.