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December 19, 2018 

TaxAct Professional Enhances Solutions for Tax Preparers

TaxAct Professional users can compare all tax forms from the current year and prior year side by side. That includes Form 1040, Form 1065, Form 1120, Form 1120S, Form 1041, and Form 990. This change also allows preparers to easily view a client's ...

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December 18, 2018 

Avalara Announces CRUSH 2019: The Path Forward for Tax Compliance

Avalara a provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses of all sizes, today announced the return of CRUSH, its fourth annual tax conference and industry gathering. The conference will take place May 8–10, 2019, in Huntington Beach, ...

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December 17, 2018 

Firm Leaders: Are Your People Lost?

Understanding the mind of the new millennial generation is one of the growing challenges firms of all sizes are faced with today and this challenge often results in firms feeling that these new millennials are entitled and lazy, but are they really ...

Garrett Wagner

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December 17, 2018 

EY Expands Tax & Finance Operate Digital Solution with Microsoft

Based on automated data capture, standardization and reuse, as well as featuring advanced analytics and intelligent automation, the platform provides tax constituents with access to a growing suite of tax and finance services while becoming the ...

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December 17, 2018 

Paychex Adds Integration with QuickBooks Online

The new integration allows users to quickly and easily connect data from the Paychex GLS, so it flows directly into their QuickBooks Online accounting package through a convenient “Link and Sync” tool in Paychex GLS. Through the integration, users can ...

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December 17, 2018 

The Best Technology Enhancement

A colleague recently shared an amusing story with me. At a firm she worked for, an older partner refused to use email. Instead, he tasked a staff member with sending and receiving all email to and from clients on his behalf. As if that weren’t bad enough, the partner insisted the staff member format all...…

Arianna Campbell

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December 17, 2018 

Got Bots?

When we talk about AI, the image that comes to mind for most people is robots doing many of the jobs we’re doing today. But AI is not just a futuristic vision for accounting firms. In proactive firms, the future is already here.

Jim Boomer

Firm Automation

December 17, 2018 

11 Easy Automation Wins for Accounting Teams

Overwhelmed by buzzwords like “blockchain” and “artificial intelligence”? While these technologies will no doubt be transformative over the next decade, there are plenty of ways for teams to get significantly more efficient and effective using ...

Blake Oliver