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August 12, 2011 

4 Models To Position Payroll As A Profit Center

Payroll is an important part of any business, and most payroll solutions currently available are capable of providing support for all business types and sizes. Although technology and automation have made compliance much easier, payroll continues to grow in complexity.

Steven M. Phelan

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August 3, 2011 

Winning With Client Write-Up

Over the past several years, some accounting technologists have come close to announcing the demise of client write-up (or at least the significant decline in its necessity and profitability for professional accountants).

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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July 26, 2011 

Conquering the Challenges of Sales & Use Tax

Sales and use tax compliance is an area of widely varying complexity. For many of the smallest entities that conduct taxable transactions, particularly physical retail businesses with only one or two locations, the process of applying the appropriate tax rate and reporting it to their states is often quite simple. And almost all states that...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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June 24, 2011 

Tax Document Automation Tools Come of Age

  This is our first annual review of tax document automation tools. While we have presented feature articles on this topic in the past, this category is rapidly maturing to include some common feature sets. Internal estimates from vendors based on data provided to CPA Practice Advisor suggest that around 1% of all individual income...…

Brian Tankersley

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November 1, 2010 

2010 Review of Professional Tax Planning Systems

With a tight economy and creeping growth causing more and more Americans to be more miserly in their spending or to at least budget more stringently, they often overlook a potential for significant savings. Or perhaps they don’t think about the potential until it’s too late. Unfortunately, the latter is likely the case because they…