Accounting February 28, 2026
Voting Opens for 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards!
Voting in the 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards is now open. Readers can vote for the programs, hardware, services, and other technologies they use and trust.
November 3, 2011
Red Moon Solutions LLC – Fixed Assets Manager
800-224-1260 www.redmoonsolutions.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.75 Best Fit In-house by organizations with extensive asset management needs, including multi-location and multi-departmental entities, or by accounting firms providing services to such clients. Strengths Exceptional reporting Integration with ERPs & with Vertex for corporate compliance Broad customization options Multi-entity consolidation functions Extensive calculations Installed & hosted options...…
November 3, 2011
Wasp Barcode Technologies – MobileAsset
214-547-4100 www.waspbarcode.com 2011 Overall Rating 4 Best Fit Businesses needing to track mobile assets, such as tools, equipment and vehicles, including scheduling and check-in/out features. Strengths Excellent location tracking capabilities Built-in barcode scanning support Intuitive interface Potential Limitations Limited to a single book per asset No compliance reporting for FASB 109, Sec. 179, IRS...…
November 3, 2011
Pro-Ware, LLC — Asset Keeper
402-861-8800 www.ProWare-CPA.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.5 Best Fit Asset Keeper is best geared toward public practices managing medium to large dynamic asset bases for multiple clients with multi-tiered organizational structures, and who have need for mass asset edit/acquisition/disposal capabilities. Strengths Designed specifically for public accountants Excellent reporting & output options Strong asset life features,...…
November 3, 2011
Today’s Tax Research Vendors Embrace Mobility
Today’s tax, accounting and legal professionals are under a constant stream of knowledge exchanges. Clients call, email and text their respective professionals with a variety of scenarios and demand quick answers. The professionals are then left to work out the details and are often left scratching their heads on where to turn next.
November 3, 2011
Intuit — TaxAlmanac
www.taxalmanac.org TaxAlmanac is a free online tax research resource designed for tax professionals. It is a wiki site and largely depends on tax professionals creating and sharing knowledge. A wiki site is simply a collection of web pages developed and maintained through volunteer collaboration, the most popular of which is Wikipedia. TaxAlmanac is simple in...…
November 3, 2011
Intuit —Tax Research for Lacerte and ProSeries
800-200-7599 lacerte.intuit.com/products/tax-research proseries.intuit.com/products/tax-research 2011 Overall Rating 4.5 BEST FIT Tax practices currently utilizing the Lacerte or ProSeries tax solutions. STRENGTHS Powered by Google Enterprise Search Engine helps to find the answer quickly All-inclusive pricing with no additional fees for network use or multiple users No separate product to load or login to Strong...…
November 3, 2011
CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business — IntelliConnect
888-224-7377 CCHGroup.com 2011 Overall Rating 5 BEST FIT Tax, accounting and legal professionals who need a wide range of research options. STRENGTHS New categorized view groups data in easy-to-use chunks Up to 8 simultaneous searches on one screen Multiple ways of getting the same answer POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS Integration only achieved with solutions in the...…
November 3, 2011
Thomson Reuters Checkpoint
800-950-1216 YourCheckpoint.ThomsonReuters.com 2011 Overall Rating 5 BEST FIT Tax and accounting professionals that prefer a uniform platform for tax and accounting research STRENGTHS High level of user-specific customization Single platform for multiple primary, proprietary & third-party research content providers Strong search capabilities POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS Based on subscription level, users may experience content overload...…
November 3, 2011
BNA, Inc. — BNA Tax and Accounting Center
800-372-1033 www.bna.com 2011 Overall Rating 5 Best Fit Tax, accounting and legal professionals who want the practitioner view as well an an editorial view of tax law. Strengths Research portfolios authored by respected practitioners & educators Clean, easy-to-use interface High level of program & newsletter customization Potential Limitations No native integration with third-party tax...…
November 3, 2011
Intuit — ProSeries Fixed Asset Manager
800-934-1040 http://proseries.intuit.com/products/fam 2011 Overall Rating 4.25 Best Fit Professionals using the ProSeries tax compliance system, whose clients have increasing asset bases and moderately complex depreciation strategies and needs. The program can also be used as a stand-alone with the tax package. Strengths Direct integration with the ProSeries compliance system Intuitive interface & navigation...…
November 3, 2011
BNA Software – BNA Fixed Assets DesktopPro
800-424-2938 www.bnasoftware.com 2011 Overall Rating 5 Best Fit Professional firms managing multiple clients with varying asset bases and depreciation needs. It’s also a good fit for large enterprises or government entities with complex asset management needs. Strengths Global/group/departmental edit capabilities Wizards for asset life management/mass actions Multi-entity consolidations Strong customization options Potential Limitations...…
November 2, 2011
How to Make Payroll Insanely Profitable
Payroll used to be tedious, and then several national companies came in and, for the most part, most professionals were fine with that. Their clients were getting “good enough” service through the service providers, without the hassle for the firm. But with advances in technology over the past couple of years, payroll is something you...…