Taxes January 16, 2026
Intuit Opens a Brick and Mortar TurboTax Office in New York City, Plans On Locations Nationwide
Intuit says it plans to launch nearly 600 Expert Office locations, and 20 new TurboTax stores in locations across the nation.
September 8, 2011
AccountantsWorld — Practice Relief
888-999-1366 www.accountantsworld.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.25 Best Firm Fit Small firms using the AccountantsWorld Power Practice System. Strengths Intuitive, easy to set up & begin using. Integration with other products in the AccountantsWorld suite. E-mail broadcast for client communications, with tools to group clients for e-mails & track which e-mails were sent to clients....…
September 8, 2011
Broadway Billing Systems — Bill4Time
877-245-5484 www.Bill4Time.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.5 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized firms wanting to do all time and billing in the cloud. Strengths Many options for capturing time, including a desktop widget & mobile apps. Easy integration with PayPal for collecting online payments. Scheduling integration with Outlook, Google Calendar & iCal. Billing rate...…
September 8, 2011
BQE Software Inc. — BillQuick
855-687-1024 www.BillQuick.com 2011 Overall Rating 5 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized firms. Strengths Feature-rich SaaS version available, which can synchronize automatically with the desktop product. Native iPhone & Android apps. Free Lite version available. Tracks personal time off hours & approvals. The most extensive integration options with accounting software among products reviewed. Strong...…
September 8, 2011
ImagineTime, Inc. — ImagineTime Practice Management
877-520-1525 www.imaginetime.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.25 Best Firm Fit Small firms, especially those taking advantage of the tax software integration available. Strengths Ribbon interface similar to Microsoft Office. Integration with tax software & QuickBooks. Synchronization with Outlook, including viewing staff calendars side-by-side. Potential Limitations No SaaS version. Summary & Pricing ImagineTime is a time...…
September 8, 2011
Chrometa
888-340-6425 www.Chrometa.com 2011 Overall Rating 4.5 Best Firm Fit Small firms with simple billing needs, or firms of any size for timekeeping. Strengths Innovative system for automatically tracking time. Integration with several accounting programs and other billing programs. SaaS software that can aggregate time from multiple PCs. Potential Limitations Limited invoicing capabilities. Works...…
September 8, 2011
Abak Software — Abak Time & Billing
888-849-8059 www.abaksoftware.com 2011 Overall Rating 4 Best Firm Fit Small and mid-sized accounting firms, especially those integrating with certain accounting software (Sage Simply Accounting, Sage Accpac ERP, Avantage and Acomba). Strengths Three-level approval system for time & expenses. Web-based interface for a few of the program’s functions. Potential Limitations Help file is difficult...…
September 7, 2011
Remembering September 11, 2001
I wasn’t in New York City 10 years ago. My first visit wasn’t until 2003, on a fall day similar to when I watched the towers fall on tv. In July 2003, I went to Ground Zero, well- as close as I could get, about half a block.
September 1, 2011
7 Easily Missed SEO Opportunities
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a collection of tactics that are applied to your website to help it rank better in the results when people use searches to find people and businesses they need. SEO, as an industry, literally changes every day. Search engines, like Google, constantly tweak how they rank and present search…
September 1, 2011
Creativity at Work: A Different Kind of Auditor, a Different Kind of Firm
Accountants and accounting firms have long suffered from the false stereotype of being stodgy, even predictable and boring. Even more so, the auditor: that truly numbers-focused researcher of data whose sole purpose is to determine the propriety of an organization’s financial reporting and their internal controls over financial reporting. Perhaps only actuaries are more maligned…
September 1, 2011
Someone Knocking at the Door?
As the regular readers of this column know, I like to reference rock’n’roll from the 70s. This time, as I sit down to write my column about listening to your customers, one of my favorite songs from the Wings comes to mind.
August 31, 2011
Websites: Your New Front Door
Most of us have built our businesses based on relationships. Some have built a reputation around a specific expertise. Others have built a business based on service levels. All of these strategies are still extremely important, but an increasingly important factor in the last 15 years is being found on the web. Many of us…
August 31, 2011
Marketing from Square One
For firms new to marketing, it’s best to take it one day (and project) at a time Marketing is starting to get its due attention in the profession. Firm leaders understand the importance of consistent, frequent communications with prospects and clients in order to grow a successful, profitable business. However, while many are stoked about...…