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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 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...…
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....…
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...…
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...…
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....…
November 22, 2011
6 Effective Tools for Tax Document Automation
6 Effective Tools for Tax Document Automation
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...…
November 22, 2011
Five Timesaving Tips for a Smoother Tax Season
A little pre-tax season planning and preparation can go a long way.
November 22, 2011
Building a Practice for the Future
Tax and accounting professionals who start their own firms from scratch face benefits and significant challenges. On the pro side, they have the opportunity to build the firm as they wish, from internal practices to staffing and management styles. Of course, there can be significant startup costs, and the firm starts with a client roster…
November 22, 2011
2012 Readers’ Choice Awards: Professionals Rate Their Favorite Technologies
Since we started the Readers’ Choice Awards in 2006, they’ve become a popular way for many of our readers to voice their admiration and respect for certain companies that make technologies for tax and accounting professionals.
November 22, 2011
Free CPE Webcast: Using Document Management & Portals to Drive Paperless Efficiency
Serve Clients the Way They Want to be Served Free CPE Webcast:Wednesday, November 30, 2011 – 2 p.m. EST >>> Register Now Register Now
November 21, 2011
How 2012 Can be the Year of the Entrepreneur
In coaching and speaking, I often have to convince tax and accounting firm owners that they are entrepreneurs. They are creators of new things and value-adders. They make the world a better place for their customers, their families and themselves. This is a high calling, and if it is embraced, it can change lives. Tax...…