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April 23, 2005 

The Lacerte Tax Planner provides multi-scenario and multi-year income tax planning, allowing users to project future tax liabilities and provide clients with graphical reporting showing how they can best minimize those liabilities. The 2004 program has added support for seven states, and now supports AZ, CA, CO, CT, GA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, MN,...…

April 23, 2005 

True to its name, Creative Solutions has been first to market with many innovations that are now presumptive industry standards. Write-Up Solution boasts more users than any other competitor.

April 23, 2005 

Veteran performance. UBCC offers a comprehensive write-up solution in a real-time, platform-independent, character-based program known as Client Data Center.

April 22, 2005 

Tax Research NetWork (TRN) provides a web-based research system that includes subscription modules for CCH’s federal, state, international and accounting material. CCH includes more than 100 primary research sources, in addition to analyses and explanations provided by legal and accounting experts, and current news related to specific tax and accounting subjects. Pricing for TRN is...…

April 22, 2005 

CFS Tax Research is a research program that provides primary tax-related documents, including code, government publications, regulations, rulings and procedures, a stand-alone California tax research program, and linked access to the tax authorities for other states. The system costs $149 for a single-user license ($139 for renewals), which includes four quarterly updates. CFS also now...…

April 22, 2005 

PPC offers one of the largest collections of tax and financial research primary source documents and analysis. The key offerings for tax professionals are traditionally known as PPC’s Deskbooks and also include additional PPC and government publications. They are available individually or in bundles through its Federal Tax Compliance Service (FTCS), Business Tax Planning Service...…

April 1, 2005 

FIRM NAME: Kive I. Strickoff, PC, CPAs Kive Strickoff, CPA, has a personal and business philosophy that has guided his firm through 30 years. ‘Any financial gain at the expense of our integrity is a loss,’ reads the credo, which is posted in several locations around the Merrick, New York, offices of Kive I. Strickoff,...…

April 1, 2005 

It’s that time of year again. You’re coming out of the annual ‘busy season’ and have yet another opportunity to take a renewed look at your practice model and assess whether or not this ‘paperless thing’ is fact or fiction. As you head out to CPE conferences, seminars and other practitioner networking events, you’re likely...…

April 1, 2005 

The packages reviewed here provide the tools to accurately estimate the job, as well as let you observe and manage the process as it moves from contract to completion.

January 1, 2005 

AICPA Unveils 2005 Top Techs List America’s CPA technologists remain convinced that Information Security is the country’s number one technology concern, according to the 2005 Top Technologies survey of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The new list marks the third consecutive year that Information Security captured the top spot. Interestingly, Spam Technology ‘...…

January 1, 2005 

In mid-October, Microsoft announced enhancements to its corporate IM service that will weave in features commonly found in their Outlook e-mail software.

January 1, 2005 

Best Software Acquires Federal Liaison Services, Inc. IRVINE (Calif.) — Best Software has acquired Dallas-based Federal Liaison Services, Inc. (FLS), a single source provider of employer payroll and tax filing solutions. FLS provides software and technol-ogy solutions for the compliance, reporting and payment functions not addressed by most payroll and HR solutions or services. These...…