Software

January 17, 2013 

With small business lending opportunities tight because of the reluctance of many financial institutions to qualify businesses for loans, Intuit is looking at ways it could work with small businesses and lenders to help provide better financial strength assessments, which could help with the qualification process.

Isaac M. O'Bannon

January 3, 2013 

As of Monday, Maine has adopted a new standard for who can be considered an independent contractor for Workers’ Compensation, unemployment insurance and other purposes. Until this week, the Maine Department of Labor, the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board and Maine Revenue Services each had different standards for who can be considered an independent contractor. This...…

December 31, 2012 

Real Business Solutions, a payroll and 1099 solution provider, is helping small businesses and tax professionals comply with the changes to the California withholding tax tables introduced by the Employment Development Department (EDD) starting January 1, 2013.

December 18, 2012 

Intuit, Inc. — Tax Import for Lacerte and ProSeries800-200-7599accountants.intuit.com/tax/lacerte/add-ons/tax-import.jspaccountants.intuit.com/tax/proseries/add-ons/tax-import.jsp Best Fit Tax-focused practices using Lacerte or ProSeries, who want an automated method of creating organized PDF workpapers from client source documents, as well as direct download of W-2 and 1099 data from financial institutions. Strengths Dual optical character recognition process increases reliability of data imports...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

December 18, 2012 

SurePrep — 1040SCAN Pro; 1040SCAN Organize800-805-8582www.sureprep.com Best Fit: Professional firms seeking an automated workpaper solution, who have complex clients, or clients who often have large numbers of source documents, and where there may be multiple professionals involved in preparation, review and final sign-off. Strengths The SPbinder tool has strong features for organizing and annotating PDFs,...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

December 18, 2012 

GruntWorx, LLC — GruntWorx 800-291-2136 www.gruntworx.com Best Fit: Tax professionals who want a user-friendly way to quickly create organized and bookmarked PDF workpapers generated from source documents, and that can be used alongside any professional tax system. The optional auto-populate functions only work with specific systems, however. Strengths Completely web-based means nothing to install and...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

November 18, 2012 

What apps are the most popular for small businesses? There are many ways to measure that... here's one.

October 31, 2012 

Intuit encourages it’s employees and customers to be innovators that help improve and shape the future of it’s products.

October 29, 2012 

Brian Looks at Two Apps for Microsoft Office and the CCH Mobile app.

Brian Tankersley

October 23, 2012 

Intuit Helps Accounting Professionals Stand Out in the Cloud.

October 22, 2012 

New integration tags SmartVault as the first to market with integrated document management capabilities for QuickBooks Online users.

October 2, 2012 

In order to be competitive, small to mid-size accounting firms need to offer the most advanced technology to their clients, but that can entail significant up-front investment in equipment, software and applications.