Aqubanc, LLC

February 26, 2019 

Aqubanc, LLC

2352 800-350-4720 www.aqubanc.com Cheque 21 System from Aqubanc, LLC is a system designed to optimize gift and donation processing. Designed to work with multiple nonprofit software systems such as Raiser’s Edge, DonorPerfect, Sage Fundraising 50, PledgeMaker and others, Cheque 21 allows larger nonprofits to easily process a large influx of donations. Aqubanc, LLC was formed...…

 Engagement & Trial Balance: Do You Need A Standalone System?

February 26, 2019 

Engagement & Trial Balance: Do You Need A Standalone System?

EngTBIntro0710.doc — 4368 By Isaac M. O’Bannon, Technology Editor Trial balance and audit engagement management programs share a few essential basics: creation of financials and client deliverables, account manipulation, consolidations, reporting, and analysis. After these areas, however, trial balance usually stops and engagement systems are just beginning, and the two types of systems very rarely...…

 Affect or Effect? It’s Your Choice

February 26, 2019 

Affect or Effect? It’s Your Choice

5851 characters   One of the topics in this issue is innovation, and one thing I have learned about innovation is that it is easier and more successful when you are embracing change. Either you are affected by change or you can effect change. Every day, we have a choice, and my suggestion is to...…

 Dashboards: Business Intelligence At A Glance

February 26, 2019 

Dashboards: Business Intelligence At A Glance

7373 I have spent a lot of time looking at dashboards lately. See, I’ve been test driving new cars to see what might replace my 10-year old van now that carpool days are behind me. Car makers give us dashboards in a variety of colors and layouts, and each seems to have one or two...…

 RootWorks 2010 Who’s Who

February 26, 2019 

RootWorks 2010 Who’s Who

RootWorks … Super-charged! RootWorks launched in 2008 with a primary focus on providing small accounting firms with a single, expert source for technology, best practices, and branding and communications support. Within the last year, we have super-charged RootWorks by recalibrating our service model to offer broad membership options. Depending on the membership level, our customers...…

 Five Tips for Improving Email Management

February 26, 2019 

Five Tips for Improving Email Management

8110 characters In columns last month (July 2010), Executive Editor Darren Root, CPA.CITP, and I wrote about Apple’s new iPad (Darren’s July column is available at www.cpata.com/go/2841; my July column is at www.cpata.com/go/2843). Darren has long been a proponent of Apple technologies as reliable, quality products, while I’ve long been an Apple critic, pointing out...…

 Keys to Helping Clients Close Out 2010 & Make the Most of 2011

February 26, 2019 

Keys to Helping Clients Close Out 2010 & Make the Most of 2011

5958 As 2010 comes to a close, we are all working on our New Year’s Resolutions to make 2011 the best year ever. Although there is still a cloud of uncertainty hanging over our economy, individuals in our profession can’t do anything about the macroeconomic situation. Instead of waiting for others to create economic activity...…

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February 26, 2019 

Staffing & Technology Trends: Firms Take Progressive Paths

16,640 characters For a number of reasons, achieving the perfect balance between implementing or improving technology, and finding success in all areas related to staffing for that technology, is rare. Vendors and users can, and certainly do, work together for long-term results. However, one too many variables, combined with somewhat disparate agendas between the firms...…

 CPAsites.com

February 26, 2019 

CPAsites.com

2911 www.CPAsites.com CPAsites.com is a traditional web design firm specializing in custom websites to meet the unique needs of accounting firms. Its business model is to have its professional design staff do all creation and modification using materials, text and images supplied or licensed by its clients. While most hosting plans include monthly or quarterly...…

 A Technology Recipe for Success

February 26, 2019 

A Technology Recipe for Success

5567 Most of you want to have your technology work correctly at the least possible cost. This is a reasonable goal, but it’s difficult to execute. This year, in the consulting practice of Network Management Group, Inc. (NMGI.com), which specializes in accounting professionals, we have seen a lot of technology implemented poorly, and some implemented...…

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February 26, 2019 

Paramount 2010 Who’s Who

Company Overview Paramount Software Solutions is the first payroll technology company to offer a client service system truly designed for professional accountants. Headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey, Paramount develops a suite of web-based professional programs that help accounting practices, and their clients, be more productive and profitable. Through innovative technologies that streamline processing and reporting,...…

 It May be Time to Give Payroll Services a Second Look

February 26, 2019 

It May be Time to Give Payroll Services a Second Look

3359 If at one time you offered payroll services and stopped because you found it to be less than profitable, it may be time to re-evaluate. Back in the day, we didn’t have the advanced technology required to process payroll and make a decent profit. But oh, how things have changed. Powerful payroll software and...…