Accounting Technology articles from August 2008

Accounting Technology archives from August 2008

Recession: Cure for Staff Shortages?
August 1, 2008... The man with the cell phone was talking loudly in the line for the bank teller about his effort to find a controller. I cant find anybody good, he complained. And it sounded a lot like the reports from many practitioners in tax and...

2008 Killer VARS.
August 1, 2008... What do the members of the 2008 class of Killer VARs have in common? For one, they are still around. Theres more to being successful besides surviving. But in a market where new software sales are tough, staying power is linked to the...

Show Calendar.
August 1, 2008... AUGUST 19-20 Business & Technology Solutions Show, Illinois CPA Society. Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Ill. www.icpas.org/ AUGUST 19-20 IRS Nationwide Forum, Rio, Las Vegas. www.irs.gov AUGUST 26-27 IRS...

Accounting Technology September Coming Attractions.
August 1, 2008... Going Online With Accounting When will online accounting software be the tool most organizes use to run their businesses? Is that even the right question? Best Practices for Tax Season There is more than one way to ran a tax...

Practice Development News.
August 1, 2008... MIS GROUP STARTS CPA MEETINGS The MIS Group, a Sage reseller based in Dallas, has established monthly events called 1st Tuesday, which are designed to educate CPAs as well as other software resellers. It started as a way to give back...

Accounting News.
August 1, 2008... DYNAMICS GOES MOBILE Microsoft has introduced Dynamics mobile, a set of functions and development tools for Dynamics NAV 5.0 and GP 10 that Microsoft said would enable customers to access accounting applications remotely. Announced at...

Tax & Financial Planning News.
August 1, 2008... INTUIT CUTS JOBS Intuit is slashing 575 positions, or 7 percent, of its job force in a move designed to redeploy resources out of the back office. The company said it would take a pre-tax charge of about $22 million for the fourth...

Killer VARs - Building Momentum.(Company overview)
August 1, 2008... When the going get tough, the tough get better. And while its not the worst of times in accounting software reselling, its not the best of times either. Selling financial software has gotten harder as the market has become saturated....

Easing Payroll's Burden: Firm choices stretch all or nothing or in between.
August 1, 2008... Maurizio Adornetto wanted nothing to do with payroll. When AccountantsWorld approached him about its online Payroll Relief product about six years ago, he did not want to add it to his tax and consulting practice, figuring he couldnt make a...

Can Accounting Firms Profit From Payroll?
August 1, 2008... Can firms really profit from processing payroll? Crunching the numbers can help determine whether its worth the effort. Following is a sample analysis provided by Michelle L. Long, CPA, owner of M. Long Consulting, including some of...

The Perfect Write-up Game: Bowl strikes in your practice with these packages.
August 1, 2008... For over 40 years I have been an active bowler, participating in at least one organized league per season. There is something comforting about the sameness of this sport in that the basic tools have not really changed much over time. Bowling...

The Art of Aggregation: Account aggregation gets a new life.
August 1, 2008... If it had no other value, the data aggregation services offered through the H.D. Vest Client Center helps Karl Kebler III offer improved customer services. When I pop into Client Center all of my client positions are available so I can see...

Intuit Goes into the Aggregation Business.
August 1, 2008... Intuit put a high value on providing financial services, so much that it spent $1.33 billion to buy Digital Insight, an online banking services provider. And aggregation services are part of its new efforts, with FinanceWorks, which was...

New Products.
August 1, 2008... DMS FOR QUICKBOOKS Intuits Document Management System for QuickBooks, which converts paper documents to an electronic format, features a Setup Wizard that helps users establish an organizational system that mirrors how they store and...

DiCentral Eyes EDI Experts.(Company overview)
August 1, 2008... DiCentral is looking for a few good EDI experts. But the companys also happy to take on a few good VARs who can recognize their customers need for Electronic Data Interchange and are willing to send a few referrals its way. When...

Advertisers' Index 8/08.
August 1, 2008... Ad Appears Advertiser on page ADP Small Business Services 3 CCH a Wolters Kluwer business C4 CS Thomson Reuters C2 MPAY Inc. ...

Tom Hood: Virtual CPA.
August 1, 2008... Tom Hood leaped into the next generation when he started CPA Island, a virtual land in a 3-D world called Second Life. Hood has served as the executive director and CEO of the Maryland Society of CPAs since 1997 and is striving to connect...